This is the "short" version... as it'd take days to detail the smoke and mirrors and stupidity of this "report" with the "cute" name "Straight Shooting" and the absurd use of the word "Objective" in it's title... just a few lowpoints...
This “report” is a joke. In terms of providing any useful information as to whether Hawaii's draconian “commonsense gun safety laws” are effective, it provides no information at all. To determine if the “gun registration”, “permits to acquire”, "waiting period", etc. are a deterrent to crime, i.e. “enhance public safety” (as is their justification) we would need to know how many crimes are committed by prohibited persons using illegally possessed firearms (which they admit they have no idea of at all), and then compare those statistics (as rate) to other states having similar registration schemes (there are none because only Hawaii requires registration of
all handguns
and long guns), and those that have no such schemes. They don't know. They don't want to know, because the facts are that it makes no difference at all in crime rates. All it does is intimidate and make more costly and time-consuming the process to acquire a firearm for law-abiding citizens.
P 16 these wouldn't be of any use around here anyway, considering how many days it gets above 80 degrees...
Prohibited:
Possessing, selling, or delivering a handgun with a frame or receiver that is
a die casting of zinc alloy that has a melting temperature of less than 80º F actually:
§134-15 Restriction of materials for manufacture of pistols or revolvers. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person, including a licensed manufacturer, licensed importer, or licensed dealer, to possess, sell, or deliver any pistol or revolver the frame or receiver of which is a die casting of zinc alloy which has a melting temperature of less than 800 degrees Fahrenheit.
P 17
here they admit that one must be a security guard to get unconcealed license, i.e. the AG was/is a liar when he claims that anyone could have gotten an open carry license any time in the past:
To ensure that applicants for a license to openly carry a handgun are so “engaged,” HPD requires each applicant to
submit a notarized affidavit from the applicant’s employer verifying the applicant’s employment, along with two photographs depicting the applicant in work uniform.
p 22 where's the data on crime comparing these two groups?
We also found that some other states have far less restrictive firearm laws than Hawaii. For example, while Hawaii requires a person to obtain a dealer’s license to sell firearms, forty- three other states do not require similar licenses.
p 22 where's the data on crime comparing these two groups?
As another example, Hawaii has imposed a state background check requirement on all individuals attempting to acquire any type of firearm; however, thirty-seven states have not.
p 23 where's the data on crime comparing these two groups?
Hawaii requires a person to obtain a permit in order to openly carry a handgun, the laws of thirty-one states do not require such a permit.
P 25 so there is no point in making any speculative statements or conclusions about the prevalence or level and degree firearm ownership and crime, or anything else (and of course there is no data at all on the unregistered firearms in the state...)
no reliable data are available regarding the total number of registered firearms that are presently in the State.
P 27 so all persons sexually assaulted are deleted from the database.... that would likely be at least 90% women, so no stats on how many women might possibly have been spared being raped had they been “allowed” to bear arms...
The agency noted that although forcible rape is a violent crime under UCR standards, weapons data are not collected for that crime. Therefore, CPJAD’s data excluded instances of rape.
P 28 in other words... none of these stats has anything at all to do with the title of the report, and it's supposed utility.
The Judiciary also noted that due to the limitations of its database, the information did not specify whether the cited cases involved firearms.
P29 seriously?
Staff from the Crime Prevention & Justice Assistance Division of the Department of the Attorney General informed us that the agency did not have statistics on accidental firearm deaths
p 29 how do they explain that with the same “commonsense gun safety laws” in effect, the stats on intentional firearm-related deaths fluctuated by 71%?
According to these statistics, very few firearm-related deaths in any given year were accidental. Three accidental firearm-related deaths occurred in each of the years of 2015 and 2016, and no such deaths occurred in 2017.44
EMSIPSB also noted that the number of intentional firearm-related deaths in any of these given years fluctuated from year to year, with a low of thirty-five in 2007 to a high of sixty in 2016, with a decrease to a ten-year near-low of thirty-six in 2017.45
p 30 in other words they have no idea, and this “unsuccessful permit applicants” would be a tiny subset of the illegal possessors as most of them do not apply for permits because they already know they are prohibited persons. Ludicrous.
These annual reports record reasons for permit denials but do not include statistics regarding any firearm crimes subsequently committed by unsuccessful permit applicants.
p 72 Chart: total proportion of murders committed with firearms. Only 10% of murders in 2017 committed with firearms. 90% via other means. What laws need to be made more strict to prevent all the weapons used in those 90% of murders from falling into the hands of criminals? Where's the rush at the legislature to pass draconian knife (etc.) registration laws?
P 99 chart comparing rate of firearms registered and crimes committed with firearms: obviously no relationship at all. None. Not even the slightest correlation, much less causation. But let's register and ban more stuff. Because gunz!
