Hawaii Concealed Carry Permit

Hawaii effectively bans private, self-manufactured firearms. HRS §134-10.2 makes it a CLASS C FELONY for any person who is not licensed to manufacture firearms under HRS §134-31 (an annual county-issued dealer/manufacturer license) and is not a federally licensed dealer to — for the purpose of assembling a firearm — possess, purchase, produce with a three-dimensional printer, or otherwise obtain, separately or as part of a kit: (1) a firearm receiver not imprinted with a serial number registered with a federally licensed manufacturer; (2) a firearm receiver that has not been provided a serial number registrable under §134-3(c); or (3) any combination of parts from which a firearm having no serial number may be readily assembled (provided the parts cannot function as a firearm unless assembled). An ordinary resident therefore cannot lawfully build an 80%-receiver, parts-kit, or 3D-printed gun. Serialization and REGISTRATION are mandatory in any lawful path: under HRS §134-3(b), if a firearm has no serial number the registration number must be engraved on the receiver BEFORE registration; a firearm assembled from parts is registered with the receiver-registering entity recorded as manufacturer and 'assembled from parts' as the model; a 3D-printed build must have the registration number engraved on stainless steel permanently embedded in the receiver during fabrication and visible when assembled. All such firearms and receivers must be physically inspected by the county chief of police at registration, even if a licensed dealer did the engraving. Under §134-3(c), only licensed dealers/manufacturers may register an unfinished receiver and obtain a serial number before assembly or transfer. Honolulu PD confirms it requires physical inspection of firearms and receivers assembled without serial numbers or other identifying markings (Act 30, 2022).

HRS §134-10.2; HRS §134-3(b)-(c); HRS §134-31

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What we could not confirm

• Fingerprints: HRS §134-9 does not itself impose a fingerprint requirement for the License to Carry. Fingerprinting and photographing are required at the prerequisite permit-to-acquire stage (HRS §134-2(b)(2)) and at firearm registration (HRS §134-3(a)), both of which every LTC applicant must have completed because the applicant must be the registered owner of the handgun. I set fingerprintsRequired = true on that basis, but I could not confirm from an official page whether any county takes NEW prints at the LTC application itself; the statutes allow waiver where prints are already on file.
• Training hours are set by county rule, not by statute. HRS §134-9(e) prescribes course content and a live-fire proficiency demonstration but no hour count. Honolulu and Hawaiʻi County publish a 4-hour classroom minimum; Maui publishes 4 hours classroom plus 2 hours live fire. I could not retrieve Kauaʻi Police Department's LTC page (the county site returned HTTP 403), so Kauaʻi's specific minimums are unconfirmed. '4+' is the safe statewide floor; a given county may require more.
• Instructor registry: Hawaii publishes no single statewide list of certified instructors, so instructorRegistryUrl is null. Each county verifies its own instructors — Honolulu PD provides its Verified Instructors list only at its Firearms Unit windows on request, and Kauaʻi County reportedly posts a list on the KPD webpage (I could not load the Kauaʻi page to capture a stable official URL).
• Reciprocity: Hawaii publishes no reciprocity page at all, because it has no reciprocity. The 'honors: []' conclusion is inferred from primary law — HRS §134-9(a)(5) restricts licenses to State residents, and HRS §134-25 recognizes only §134-5 and §134-9 as exceptions to the class B felony — rather than from an affirmative official statement that Hawaii honors no out-of-state permit.
• Fee detail: statutory fees are $150 initial and $50 renewal (HRS §134-9(i), (p)). Hawaiʻi County publicly adds $10 per additional firearm listed on an initial application (effective Oct. 1, 2025). I could not confirm whether Honolulu, Maui, or Kauaʻi charge a per-additional-firearm amount or instead require a separate $150 application per firearm; the AG's 2025 report notes some licensees hold multiple licenses to cover multiple carry guns and that 'the exact policies and procedures for this vary by county.'
• Post-Wolford status: on June 25, 2026 the U.S. Supreme Court in Wolford v. Lopez (No. 24-1046) held unconstitutional Act 52's default rule barring licensed carry on private property held open to the public without the owner's express authorization. That prohibition still appears in the affidavit language of HRS §134-9(d)(5)(A)(iii) on the Legislature's website but is no longer enforceable; the text has not yet been amended. The separate enumerated sensitive-places list in HRS §134-9.1 was not struck by that holding and remains on the books. I could not locate post-decision implementation guidance from the Hawaiʻi Attorney General or the county police departments, so treat the currently enforceable places list as unsettled and verify locally before carrying.
• The Legislature's 'HRS current' text for §134-9 shows its last amendment as Act 52 (2023). I found no 2024, 2025, or 2026 session act amending §134-9, but I could not exhaustively verify that the online compilation already incorporates every 2026 session enactment. A separate 2026-session firearms bill (SB 401 CD2, assault weapons / .50 caliber definitions) does not touch §134-9 and its enactment status was not verified.
• Two licensee restrictions worth flagging (confirmed, not uncertain): a licensee may not carry more than one firearm on the person at one time (HRS §134-9(q)), and each firearm carried must be individually listed by serial number on the license (HRS §134-9(l)(6)).