Number of Registered Guns in Hawaii Unknown
HONOLULU (AP) — A state study says Hawaii does not have an accurate count of legally owned and registered guns, and there is no reliable way to find out.
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports the Hawaii Legislative Reference Bureau study shows an average of 32 percent of all murders in the state involved firearms from 1994 to 2017.
The U.S. had an average of nearly 60 percent during the same period.
According to the study, the state attorney general’s office counted nearly 450,000 new firearm registrations from 2007 to 2017.
The office “cautiously” estimated that Hawaii has about 2 million privately owned guns.
The attorney general’s office says in the report that figuring out the current number of guns would be a “monumental task of limited practical value.”
Information from: Honolulu Star-Advertiser
