I wonder how accurate these statistics are.   I wouldn't have guessed we ranked that high on the list.   Hawaii coming in at number 10.

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/gun-ownership-rates-by-state/40/

https://2ahawaii.com/index.php?topic=29865.msg264499#msg264499

Had same doubts. Not much confidence in the method of the poll, but maybe it’s skewed by such a small state population compared to larger states.

And I remember the guy in the pic for Hawaii from taking the hunters ed class. Nice guy and seemed pretty knowledgeable.

I think it's a smaller percentage of people that own more than 1 firearm
Maybe it's number of firearm registrations/number of residents
Depends on their equation or method

I suspect they use gubmint numbers, which in our case would be mostly legal registrations.

Since it is MSM, automatically suspect it/

probably counting multiple guns and not the owners themselves

If you consider 260 work days per year, that's 79 applications approved per day in 2016 and 205 firearm registrations per day. They're busy, busy, busy.

http://www.jrsa.org/pubs/sac-digest/vol-26/hi-firearm-registrations-2016.pdf

I was talking to a security guard client yesterday. Hawaii requires a 208 permit to perform security guard activities but there are more security positions available than there are permitted guards available. There are two state administrators who are tasked with approving permits and it takes over a month for a permit to be processed. That's the problem with creating a bureaucratic process, it's costly and inefficient.

If you consider 260 work days per year, that's 79 applications approved per day in 2016 and 205 firearm registrations per day. They're busy, busy, busy.

That's spread out among all the islands, and on the Big Island there are at least three stations you can register at (I could be wrong about Pahoa, I know you can get permits there, but not sure about registration). Or is there some centralized state bottleneck that you are referring to? Maybe for the permit applications/background checks, but I wouldn't think so for the registrations.

Then there's the fact that law enforcement and the legislature and the executive branch can't point to one single crime, ever, that's been solved by use of the registration data. After all these years of finding that the "intention" of the legislation is totally bogus, makes you wonder why they keep it in place. That and the fact that it's clearly an infringement.