If you believe the hype from those that support gun registration for the purposes of solving gun crime, you'd hear how easily, and frequently, gun databases are used to solve crime. In reality, that just isn't so. If you review the gun crimes we do have here in Hawaii, you'd see that the vast majority are committed using unregistered guns...if the majority of crime guns aren't registered, how exactly is the registration database supposed to help?
What we need is a realistic cost analysis of the overall system, and compare that to the actual number of times the database has been used to successfully solve a crime. That way we can evaluate whether those limited funds are doing what the legislators intended, i.e., solve gun crime. If it isn't, then not only is it a cumbersome and archaic bureaucratic system that only law abiding citizens comply with, but a complete waste of money on a system that isn't doing what it's supposed to. You'd think that in this era of financial woes, the opportunity to eliminate a costly system such as this (assuming it isn't cost effective) would be a welcome chance to reduce spending without affecting the delivery of needed government services....oh wait, this is Hawaii. What was I thinking......

can you imagine not having to register?

just the one trip for the permitting...