“BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL”.

“BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL”.

My phone blared the alert warning sound, and I'll tell you, that message got us from the living room to the walk-in closet in 30 seconds or less.

Couldn't find anything on line via my phone, at ten minutes wondered why the air raid sirens weren't going, another ten minutes or more before we found news sites saying oops, and forty minutes before the Dems bothered to use the same alert system to tell us they goofed.

We were home so no idea how it went elsewhere, but standing in the closet waiting for the walls to blow in was interesting enough.

Yet another case of the sheer incompetence of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, which has ruled here for over half a century.

Upside to the non-drill: we will move an emergency radio, water, and some food out of the kitchen and into the closet. This is pretty much the only emergency for which this makes sense, but for this one it does.

Downside: US Pacific Command headquarters is on the next ridge, and we overlook Pearl Harbor, so we may well be floating around the ionosphere before we know there is a real attack. So it goes. Do what we can.

Hawaii Government At Work

Hawaii Government: It's slow, it's unfocused, it flails about, it eats everything in sight, and it leaves a trail of slime everywhere it goes.

Hawaii, New York, & Wisconsin Prohibit Employment Discrimination Against Criminals

James Jacobs, writing at the Volokh Conspiracy, Washington Post:

Hawaii, New York, and Wisconsin make employment discrimination against ex-offenders (CBED) unlawful, unless an employer can show that successful performance of the job would be jeopardized by a person with a propensity for the kind of crime for which the job seeker had previously been convicted.

These are all bad laws.

Here's why.

Hawaii Ranks Low Again In Multiple Economic Categories

We like it that way: Screw the poor by screwing the not poor, and feel virtuous doing so.

State Senate Minority Leader Sam Slom stated, “I agree with the authors of Rich States, Poor States when they write “Most politicians know instinctively that taxes reduce the activity being taxed – even if they do not care to admit it. Congress and state lawmakers routinely tax things they consider “bad” to discourage the activity.” We see this when we tax tobacco and alcohol....You can’t overtax the people to support bad spending habits, and then expect people to stay and invest in our state.”

As the article also says:

there is cumulative domestic migration loss of 26,409 people from 2003 to 2012, with a net domestic migration loss of 2.4%.

The Democratic Party's subservience to the Sierra Club (the most powerful lobby in the state, and a virulently anti-building one at that) has driven the median resale price of a house here to a statewide average of roughly $675,000. Try affording that as a school teacher, or anything else, for that matter. No wonder the young move to the Mainland to escape the consequences of voting Democratic. They probably still vote Democratic on the Mainland, though, so they effectively infect the Mainland as well. They do not see the connection between making it extraordinarily difficult to build homes and the rising price of existing homes.

And the Hawaii Republican Party does a miserable job of pointing that out.

Hawaii Leads The Nation With Highest Per Mile Highway Administrative Costs

Be proud, People of Hawai'i, we lead America highway overhead costs.

High administrative costs in some states could be siphoning away money for road repairs. Hawaii spent $90,000 on administrative costs for every mile of state road. Connecticut had the next highest administrative costs at $77,000 per mile. Meanwhile in Texas administration costs were less than $4,000 per mile and Kentucky spent less than $1,000 per mile on office costs, best in the nation.

You can access the whole pathetic thing here. And just to add injury to injury, our roads and highways are among the worst maintained in America as well.

The Democratic Party of Hawaii has controlled state and local government for over half a century, so Democrats own every failing of state and local government. The voters, though, continue to get all starry eyed when they they see a candidate with a "D" after his or her name, and snarl at any fiend with a "R" or "L".

Honolulu Teachers Are The Worst Paid In America, Milwaukee's The Best

The Hawai'i Free Press has this from a report by the National Center for Policy Analysis:

When adjusted for cost of living, teacher...median adjusted salaries in the 60 metro areas range from $32,312 in Honolulu, Hawaii to $73,078 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The national median salary for an elementary school teacher is $53,590.

No wonder Hawaii doesn't produce enough teachers, and can't keep the teachers hired from the Mainland. The cost for Mainland teachers to go home to visit family even once a year is one of the costs which may not be included in the cost of living. Tack on $600 to $850 for that item, just for airfare, out of an effective salary of $32,312.

The national median salary for an elementary school teacher is $53,590.

So just to reach the national median, Hawaii would have to increase the median teacher salary by roughly 65%. Imagine the taxpayer's response to that.

Also: Don't forget that while Hawaii teacher pensions get a 2.5% bump for inflation every year, the adjustment is applied only to the original amount of the pension and is not applied to the pension at the last raise: that is, it isn't compounded, only added to the original benefit. A couple of years of 5-8% inflation will devastate retirees, already the worst paid in America.

Anti-GMO? You Should Read The New York Times

While many on the political Left denounce the Right as anti-science, when it comes to genetically modified foods, the same can be reasonably said about the Left.

I missed this January article in the New York Times about the controversy over GMO plants in Hawaii, but it is well worth reading. It captures the politics and the anti-science attitudes of anti-GMO activists, as well as a slight brush with their apparently universal anti-capitalism. If one doesn't take their foundational political beliefs into consideration, as well as their scientific illiteracy, one would have a tough time evaluating their claims.

Hawaii Health Connector Debacle

The rollout of Hawaii’s health exchange was delayed and plagued with technical problems. The Connector was awarded more than $200 million in federal funds. It has used about $100 million. It signed up 9,217 individuals, plus 628 employees and dependents. To date, the Connector has raised only $40,350 in user fees....

Other than that, it has been great fun to watch.

I would have more respect for the people of Hawaii if they held these idiots responsible, but they don't, so I don't.

And don't get me started on the Hawaiian Homelands scandals.

We get the idiots with power who we deserve.

Hawaii "Ill-Prepared" For Disasters AKA We Are Responsible For Our Own Safety

So what else is new?

Just because this is the most geographically isolated major city on the planet shouldn't push our beloved elected leaders to take responsibility for taking care of the proles, nor any reason for them to hammer it into we Noble Proles' heads that we are responsible for our own safety during and after a disaster.

I missed a conference this week on disaster preparedness in Hawaii, but it looks like there was little which isn't already fairly obvious.

Bill Thomas, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Pacific Services Center said before the conference that:

The Hawaiian Islands are generally ill-prepared to respond to vulnerabilities like floods, earthquakes, volcano eruptions, tsunamis, pandemics and hurricanes, or the coastal erosion, subsidence and ecological change that threatens its coasts...

"Our aging infrastructure is coastal. Our food and energy supply is challenging. What happens if the harbor goes down?".

Good question. I'd say we would be in deep kim chee.

Allison Schaefers has more in the Honolulu Star Advertiser's pre-conference story, but it is behind a paywall.Here, if you can.

I went to a Disaster Preparedness Fair in Waialua last Saturday. It was interesting to see, but not sure it will have much impact on our prepping.

It was set up by the Honolulu Department of Emergency Management, which did not appear to have made much effort to include any actual vendors. The only profit seeking company there was Simpson Strong Ties (they make hurricane/earthquake clips to hold a house together). Other than that all the groups were either government or the Red Cross.

I thought that was a real shame as people who were interested enough to go to the fair would have benefited from having the local vendors available to sell supplies and gear, or at least to hand out flyers and demo what they have available.

I did write an email later to Be Ready, a local store which specializes in disaster prep gear, and sent them a copy of the email flyer I got, suggesting they contact HDEM about future fairs. Hard to believe they weren't involved because they seem to be the only specialist company here.

One of the pamphlets I picked up turned out to be excellent: "Homeowner's Handbook to Prepare for Natural Hazards" by Dennis Hwang & Darren Okimoto, published by the UH Sea Grant College Program. They made a big effort to make a useful, Hawaii-specific, guide to prepping for hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, and tsunamis, and had a good section dispelling myths about why people should not be bothered. I hadn't known before that between 1819 and 1975 we had damaging tsunamis on average every 6 years, nor that hurricanes doing damage hit about every 15 years. I knew they were real problems, but not the actual frequencies.

The great section of the pamphlet was on how to upgrade a house to withstand winds and earthquakes. Lots of good, clear instructions on the various options, both commercial and do it yourself. The guys who researched and wrote it should be proud.

I talked with the rep from the Honolulu Board of Water Supply, and he reinforced what I had gotten from them via email last fall: Our water system is highly vulnerable. I had found out that they don't have enough emergency generators to power the system, but now I learned that the emergency generators total four. For a system which is the sole provider of drinking water for over 900,000 people who cannot drive 75 miles to some place which does have water. They may be able to provide water trucks which people can walk or drive to with buckets. May. Shades of "American Blackout".

I was told last fall that the system pumps and the generators they do have may not survive because they are not in hurricane proof buildings, and Saturday the rep agreed that if a lot of houses are destroyed, the laterals would be snapped off and leaking, so the system could not be refilled until the cut off valves were dug out and closed. What happens when the water has been off for four days? People start dying. Swimming pools would be really important. Yeah.

I think the best thing BWS could do is put a warning in every monthly water bill. "We cannot guarantee you will have water after a hurricane. You need to take responsibility. A three day supply is not enough."

Honolulu Fire Department had a booth and I had a good talk with a couple of their guys. We got talking about hurricane preps and they were adamant that "people need to take responsibility for themselves because we are not going to be there to help." They will be too busy with the biggest problems to help with smaller ones, even if the phone system works.

I mentioned that an acquaintance had been one of the responders to Hurricane Katrina and had come back absolutely freaked by what he saw. I started telling the firemen that he had said "Everybody needs food", they nodded, "water", they nodded, "a chainsaw", they nodded, and "a 12 gauge shotgun." At the "shotgun" one of them practically exploded in agreement. Said "No one is going to be there to protect your family or your supplies. No One. YOU have to take responsibility for your own protection. YOU." He could not have been any more clear. I don't know if that is the official policy of the HFD (probably not), but it sure was his.

I mentioned our 55 gallon water barrel and he wanted to know where he could get one. A real shame Be Ready wasn't there.

California Gun Law Struck Down: Peruta v. County of San Diego

Breaking news in the California gun case of Peruta v. County of San Diego.

UCLA School of Law professor Eugene Volokh:

...today’s Ninth Circuit decision in Peruta v. County of San Diego (9th Cir. Feb. 13, 2014), concludes that California’s broad limits on both open and concealed carry of loaded guns “impermissibly infringe[] on the Second Amendment right to bear arms in lawful self-defense.”

...California law essentially leaves most law-abiding adults without the ability to carry guns in public for effective self-defense, period. People are barred from carrying guns either openly or concealed. It is this broad policy that the majority holds unconstitutional.

... The court also dismissed the argument that the California scheme is saved by the fact that people might get concealed carry licenses if they show “good cause” to the satisfaction of the police department, or by the fact that there are some other exceptions

If this goes to appeal and is upheld, it should invalidate Hawaii's de facto ban on carrying. We have to demonstrate 'extraordinary circumstances' in order to be considered for a concealed carry license (open carry is a felony), and so far as I know, none such have occurred in at least 15 years. In the entire state.

Hawaii Gun Ban Law: Ban Manufacturing Processes

The Hawaii State Legislature is up to it's same pranks. Now Senator Clayton Hee ("intellectually outclassed by the average drunken amoeba") has introduced a bill to ban any gun manufactured by 3D printing, CNC mills, or laser cutting machines, any gun part, anything which resembles a gun or piece of a gun, and anything which the police or a police lab is unable to determine is or resembles or depicts a gun, gun part, or depicts the nature of a gun or piece of a gun.

Clear enough for you? My reading is that unless the manufacturer has a federal firearms manufacturing license (only federally required of those who produce receivers, which for federal purposes are the gun), such parts as screws, pins, grips, stocks, springs, sights, magazine followers, barrels, bolts, firing pins, extractors, and butt plates would be a felony. So would toy and replica guns and their parts and pieces, assembled or unassembled. Possibly even 3D printed depictions of firearms because it includes anything digitally produced which "depicts the shape or nature of a firearm, ammunition, or any piece or part thereof". Which would make a CDC-produced Police Memorial a felony if it included a 'depiction' of a gun.

Think I'm nuts? Here is the text of Hawaii Senate Bill 2257 :

"§134- Digital manufacturing technology; prohibitions; penalty. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly or intentionally manufacture, through the use of digital manufacturing technology, any firearm, ammunition, or any piece or part thereof that:
(1) When fully assembled or in pieces or parts, resembles or depicts the shape or nature of a firearm, ammunition, or any piece or part thereof; or

(2) When fully assembled or in pieces or parts, resembles or depicts the shape or nature of a firearm, ammunition, or any piece or part thereof and when inspected by law enforcement or by the use of law enforcement technology, cannot be detected or identified as a firearm, ammunition, or any piece or part thereof, unless the person possesses a license to manufacture firearms pursuant to title 18 United States Code section 923(a).

(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly or intentionally use any firearm, ammunition, or any piece or part thereof, manufactured through the use of digital manufacturing technology, that:
(1) When fully assembled or in pieces or parts, resembles or depicts the shape or nature of a firearm, ammunition, or any piece or part thereof; or

(2) When fully assembled or in pieces or parts, resembles or depicts the shape or nature of a firearm, ammunition, or any piece or part thereof and when inspected by law enforcement or by the use of law enforcement technology, cannot be detected or identified as a firearm, ammunition, or any piece or part thereof, unless the person possesses a license to manufacture firearms pursuant to title 18 United States Code section 923(a).

(c) It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly or intentionally possess, sell, deliver, barter, trade, gift, transfer, or acquire any firearm manufactured through the use of digital manufacturing technology.

(d) Violation of subsection (a), (b), or (c) shall be a class C felony.

(e) For purposes of this section, "digital manufacturing technology" means the use of an integrated, computer-based system comprising simulation, three-dimensional visualization, analytics, and various collaboration tools to create product and manufacturing process definitions simultaneously. "Digital manufacturing technology" includes but is not limited to computer numerical control mills, three-dimensional printers, and laser cutting machines."

I wrote a polite comment in the bill's comments section, but this is my blog and I suspect State Senator Clayton Hee is too stupid to be a traitor. He is a plain, simple, unredeemable idiot. He is also a fool who doesn't even have the brains to hire staff who can read his own bills with enough clarity to understand what the bill actually does. He would ban manufacturing anything which is or looks like or resembles or depicts or cannot be determined to resemble or depict or be a gun or a gun part. Would this also ban an essay on the nature of guns, or the nature of gun parts, or the nature of screws, if only it was produced digitally? Why not?

The Democratic Party of Hawaii keeps running him for office, and the People of Hawaii keep re-electing this lump of protoplasm, which says something about both the Democratic Party of Hawaii, and the efficacy of the public school system in training people to vote for any quivering blob which resembles or depicts or cannot be determined to resemble or depict the shape or nature of a legislator so long as it has a (D) after its name.

The Democratic Party of Hawaii is an insult to Democrats. And when was the last time a Democrat disagreed with the statement that "shall not be infringed" means "of course we can make it a felony"?

UPDATE: Did I mention that Senator Clayton Hee is the Chairman of the state Senate's Judiciary and Labor Committee? Rather than tuck him safely onto a back bench, the Democratic Party of Hawaii considers him wise and thoughtful enough to give him an important position. That says a lot about the quality of his Democratic colleagues.

No Scary Knives In The Land Of The Free

I just came across this pathetic line in the 'Product Description' on Amazon for the Schrade SCHF9 Extreme Survival Knife:

Bowie / Fighting Knives cannot be shipped to Marin, Napa, Ventura and Yolo counties, CA; CO; CT; AL; Peoria, IL; D.C.; MA; Miami-Dade and Sarasota counties, FL; Canada or Puerto Rico. Please check your State, County and City laws for restrictions before ordering Bowie / Fighting Knives.

Folks, if it is a weapon, it is protected by the 2nd Amendment. Ask any of the Founders who left writings on the subject.

But legislators both Republican and Democrat piss on the Constitution for a living. So what's new about that?

I would say that Republicans and Democrats alike appear utterly convinced that their belief that a law is good policy makes it Constitutionally authorized, except most of them appear to think the Constitution is a worthless sheet of scrap paper.

As an irrelevant aside, since the blade shown does not have a clip point, nor does the knife sport a guard, knife people would be unlikely to call this knife either a Bowie or a fighting knife*. It is just a big utility knife. Our noble Solons though can define anything they want as a Bowie or fighting knife for regulatory purposes. Reality is no impediment to the authoritarian mindset.

As another irrelevant aside, knives were the hand weapon of choice when the Constitution was ratified because they were cheaper than handguns and because they weren't useless after one shot. They are arms, therefore they are protected. Don't like that? Fine. Amend the Constitution.

*UPDATE: Note that while the copy of the Rezin Bowie knife depicted at the linked Wikipedia article does not have a clipped point, it does have a guard. The very first Bowies were apparently little more than big kitchen knives, but rapidly evolved into clip pointed fighters with guards.

It would be interesting to see if any of the laws above actually define the term.

Where Were The Armed Civilians At the Kenya Mall Shooting?

There apparently were none. The closest thing may have been an un-named off-duty SAS member who appears to have gotten a lot of people out alive, by risking his own life going back in several times for yet more people. But then he wasn't a civilian.

I suppose that Kenya no more allows people the means with which to defend themselves than do the noble Democratic Party legislators of Hawaii.

Until Hawaii becomes more concerned with letting people make their own decisions about personal security, places like Honolulu's Ala Moana Shopping Center will continue to be target rich disarmed victim corrals.

According to this article in the Daily Mail, it took security forces 30 minutes to arrive after the carnage had begun.

It is long past time the fools in our legislature wake up to the possible consequences of continuing to disarm every potential victim in one of the highest profile cities in the world. Ala Moana Shopping Mall is a magnet for such murderous filth: A world tourist destination, a world destination for the rich, and Ala Moana Shopping Mall is their playground.

Just whose side are Hawaii Democrats on?

The answer for all practical purposes has been made: For practical purposes, Hawaii Democrats have disarmed all the victims. For practical purposes, Hawaii Democrats are firmly on the side of the mass murderers.

Technological Innovation Sweeps Through the Hawaii DMV

Outside the box thinking is running amok at the Hawaii Department of Motor Vehicles, reports the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.

City officials hope a pilot program...will eventually ease the frustrating, excessive waits...at motor vehicle branches across Oahu.

Fantastic. When I got a new driver's license this spring, I had to wait over an hour in line. Apparently that was short: Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell is quoted as saying lines can run "four, five hours long."

Come on Kirk, it's a government operation. People expect to have to take a day off from work to finish a 10 minute task.

Innovation has started though, so maybe we will get those wait times down...except that the innovation does nothing obvious to speed things up: It just lets people sit down instead of stand in line.

The innovative pilot program: Handing out numbers on a first come, first served basis.

I tremble in anticipation: I'll get to sit down instead of standing in line. Well, I'll be able to sit if the DMV adds a lot of chairs for lines of people which can stretch out for several hours. Next thing, maybe they will allow food vendors to serve the public.

Customers are helped on a first-come, first-served basis- but the numbers they will pull will be in random order so people don't try to sell them to others facing a longer wait.... Staffers will know which number is next.

I guess there will be no profiteering on line numbers in OUR DMV, by golly, so maybe food vendors are out, too.

If the innovative program is considered effective after only a year long trial, it will be extended to other DMV branches. We wouldn't want them to jump to any hasty conclusions after only six months. And it only costs $5000 to test the new technology, although nothing in the article says if that includes the cost of seating. Maybe we are supposed to sit on the floor, though.

Handing out numbers. Wow. That is so cool. Hawaii government if sweeping forward into the 19th century.

Handing out numbers... Where do these people come from?

You can read more here, but the main story is behind a firewall.

Is Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie a Communist?

Heck if I know, but I doubt that it would surprise anyone in Hawaii.

Trevor Loudon has the story at the Hawai'i Free Press.

Is there a difference between a run of the mill Hawaii Democrat and a Marxist? So far as I can see, not enough to bother making a distinction. I am not aware of anyone who does.

Hawaii State Senator on the 1st Amendment

Gotta love the people we elect to serve in the Hawaii state legislature.

Sen. J. Kalani English (D, Molokai-Lanai-Upcountry Maui-Hana)...told reporters...that the First Amendment protects the right to report the news, not to gather the news.

They have a fine grasp of the Constitution up at the Hawaii State Senate. One might almost call it subtle.

This was in response to a genuine problem faced by celebrities whose privacy is being invaded by paparazzi. Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler told the state senators:

"But when I'm in my own home and I'm taking a shower, or changing clothes, or eating, or spending Christmas with my children, and I see paparazzi a mile away at La Perouse (Bay) shooting at me with lenses this long, and then seeing that very picture in People magazine — you know, it hurts."

Tyler and Mick Fleetwood, the drummer of Fleetwood Mac, who has a home in Kula, asked senators to give celebrities and other public figures the legal right to file civil lawsuits against photographers who violate their privacy.

In other non-surprising non-news, Hawaii pols and judges understand that the state and federal constitutions, both of which specify that the right to bear arms shall not be infringed, of course empowers them to make bearing arms a felony.

Sophistication, thy name is Politician.

"Hawaii's firearm carrying laws do not violate the plaintiff's Second Amendment rights"

"Hawaii's firearm carrying laws do not violate the plaintiff's Second Amendment rights," (Senior U.S. District Judge Helen) Gillmor said in a 40-page decision filed Nov. 29.

"The carrying laws do not restrict the core protection afforded by the Second Amendment."

So Hawaii's laws continue to be firmly on the side of rapists, murderers, and mass murderers.

Good going, People of Hawaii.

"When seconds count, the police are only minutes away."

More here.

There is an article in today's Honolulu Star Advertiser saying that the Noble Solons in our legislature are buying some Oahu farmland to make it available for "many small farms."

We are paying $25,000,000 for 1750 acres.

If I haven't lost a decimal somewhere, doesn't that work out to $14,285 per acre? I wonder what they are planning on growing.

Our own noble U.S. Rep. Mazie Hirono proclaimed that:

"purchasing the Galbraith Estate land exclusively for agricultural use moves us in the right direction toward growing more of the food we eat."

And ever so much cheaper than importing foreign food from places like California.

That Responsible Hawaii State Government Again

According to today's Honolulu Star-Bulletin, the Hawaii State Government is working to inflate the housing bubble again. I guess because it worked so well the last time.

First-time homebuyers in Hawaii may be able to receive mortgage loans that will help cover part of a down payment, under a state-run program announced Monday.

The Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corp. said $43 million in loan financing is available

Actually, not just first time homebuyers, but people who have not "owned an interest in a principal residence for the past three years."

Just to make sure that only financially responsible loans are made

Qualified buyers also must meet income and home price restrictions.

For a family of three or more, the annual gross income limit is $114,240 on Oahu..

OK, so the pols think that people with over a hundred thousand a year need subsidies. Leaving aside the question of just who gets to pay the taxes which make those subsidies possible, how much can this hypothetical family desperately in need of subsidies pay for a house?

"Home price limits are $723,417 on Oahu..." If one is bumping up against the maximum income limit, and buy a house near the maximum price limit, the price will be roughly six and a third times household income.

Gov. Neil Abercrombie said in a statement that the additional loan packages with down-payment assistance will help more people invest in their long-term future and stimulate economic activity.

So, our Noble State will be helping people borrow down payments to buy houses they cannot possibly afford without whopping down payments.

Do foreclosure actions stimulate economic activity?

Concealed Carry Law in MD Struck Down; Hawaii to Follow?

Eugene Volokh writes about a Federal District Court case in Maryland, Woollard v. Sheridan (D. Md. Mar. 2, 2012), which may well have an effect on Hawaii's concealed carry law.

Hawaii's law seems even more constrictive than Maryland's, which requires one to have “good and substantial” reason to be armed outside the home. Hawaii's says:

§134-9 Licenses to carry. (a) In an exceptional case, when an applicant shows reason to fear injury to the applicant's person or property, the chief of police of the appropriate county may grant a license to an applicant who is a citizen of the United States of the age of twenty-one years or more or to a duly accredited official representative of a foreign nation of the age of twenty-one years or more to carry a pistol or revolver and ammunition therefor concealed on the person within the county where the license is granted. Where the urgency or the need has been sufficiently indicated, the respective chief of police may grant to an applicant of good moral character who is a citizen of the United States of the age of twenty-one years or more, is engaged in the protection of life and property, and is not prohibited under section 134-7 from the ownership or possession of a firearm, a license to carry a pistol or revolver and ammunition therefor unconcealed on the person within the county where the license is granted. The chief of police of the appropriate county, or the chief's designated representative, shall perform an inquiry on an applicant by using the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, to include a check of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement databases where the applicant is not a citizen of the United States, before any determination to grant a license is made. Unless renewed, the license shall expire one year from the date of issue.

For minor additions, see here. In real life, there are apparently no concealed carry permits issued in Hawaii, except possibly to retired police - and they have to jump through a lot of hoops.

The Hawaii Defense Foundation has filed a suit against the law.