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Hawaii Concealed Carry Permit

Hawaii requires a License to Carry a Firearm (Concealed) to carry. It is shall-issue, the minimum age is 21, and 4+ hours of training is required.

Requirements at a glance

Permit name License to Carry a Firearm (Concealed)
Issuing authority Chief of Police of the applicant's county (Honolulu Police Department, Hawaiʻi Police Department, Maui Police Department, Kauaʻi Police Department). There is no state-level issuing agency; each county chief adopts the implementing procedures (HRS §134-9(o)) and the renewal criteria (HRS §134-9(p)). The Department of the Attorney General only prescribes forms and compiles the annual statewide LTC report required by HRS §134-9.6.
System shall-issue
Minimum age 21 — 21 for both concealed and unconcealed licenses (HRS §134-9(a)(6), (b)(7)). No lower age tier exists. Related thresholds: 21 to acquire or register a firearm (HRS §134-2, §134-3) and 21 to possess ammunition (HRS §134-7(g)). Because an applicant must already be the registered owner of the handgun to be carried (HRS §134-9(d)(2)), there is no practical path below 21.
Training required Yes — 4+ hours, live fire required
State fee $150 initial / $50 renewal — the state's own charge, not the total
Valid for 4 years
Processing time Statute requires a concealed-carry application to be approved or denied "within a reasonable time after receipt of all required application materials"; if the chief of police neither grants nor denies within 120 days following the date of the application, the application is deemed denied as of that date for appeal purposes (HRS §134-9(j)). Hawaiʻi County PD states outright that LTC processing shall not exceed 120 calendar days.
Fingerprints Required
Non-resident permit Not available

What it actually costs

The state fee is rarely the whole bill. Fingerprinting is usually charged by a private vendor, training is bought from an instructor, and several states add photographs, notarisation or other requirements on top.

State fee $150
Fingerprinting $15–$45 — our estimate; no vendor publishes a rate
Training course $75–$250 (private instructor)
Additional firearm on an initial application $10 — Hawaiʻi County, from 1 October 2025; the $150 covers one firearm
Background check $42 — One-time, at the permit-to-acquire / registration stage rather than this one; charged in Honolulu ($43.26 by card) and Hawaiʻi County
Realistic total $240–$445 — includes an estimated component

HRS §134-9(i) sets $150 and §134-9(p) sets $50 to renew, both payable to the county and both of which must be waived on a showing of financial hardship — Hawaii is the only state in this file that is required to make its permit free for those who cannot pay, and Maui PD publishes the evidence it accepts (pay stubs, tax returns, layoff notices, proof of unemployment benefits, bank statements). Against that, the counties set their own training minimums above the statute's silence: Honolulu and Hawaiʻi County require at least four classroom hours plus a live-fire test, Maui at least six (four classroom plus two at the range), and Kauaʻi publishes no hour minimum. Payment form also varies — Honolulu cash only, Hawaiʻi County money order or cashier's check only, Kauaʻi no cash — which can itself cost a return trip. County-by-county variation on training, fingerprints and per-firearm add-ons is why no single total would be true statewide.

Set by statute: HRS §134-9(i) — nonrefundable $150 per license application; HRS §134-9(p) — nonrefundable $50 per renewal application. Both are payable to the appropriate county and the issuing authority MUST waive them on a showing of financial hardship (Maui PD publishes the documentation it accepts: pay stubs or salary statements, tax returns, termination or layoff notices, proof of unemployment benefits, bank statements). Payment form varies by county: Honolulu PD states it is 'only able to process cash payments for the $150 fee'; Hawaiʻi County accepts only money order or cashier's check payable to the County Director of Finance, and from 1 October 2025 the $150 covers one firearm with $10 per additional firearm added to an initial application; Kauaʻi PD accepts NO cash — cashier's check or money order payable to the Director of Finance, or credit card with a service fee. Separate related cost at the earlier permit-to-acquire / registration stage: a one-time $42 background-check fee (Honolulu: cash exact change, or $43.26 by debit/credit card; Hawaiʻi County: $42 by money order or cashier's check payable to the Hawaiʻi Criminal Justice Data Center). Training is undertaken at the licensee's own expense (HRS §134-9(f)).

How to apply

  1. There is no permitless carry in Hawaii: without a county-issued HRS §134-9 license, carrying or possessing a loaded or unloaded pistol or revolver outside your place of business, residence, or sojourn is a class B felony (HRS §134-25(b)). Another state's permit is not recognized, and no non-resident license exists.
  2. Confirm eligibility: Hawaii resident, age 21 or older, U.S. citizen/national/lawful permanent resident (or duly accredited foreign official representative), not prohibited under HRS §134-7, and not lacking the essential character or temperament under HRS §134-9(h).
  3. First obtain a permit to acquire and REGISTER the specific handgun(s) you intend to carry with your county police department (HRS §134-2, §134-3) — you must be the registered owner of each firearm to be licensed. Fingerprinting and photographing occur at this stage (HRS §134-2(b)(2), §134-3(a)), and may be waived where prints and a photograph are already on file with the department.
  4. Take a county-verified License to Carry course from an instructor certified or verified by your county chief of police, covering the HRS §134-9(e) topics plus a mental-health component, and pass the written examination at 70% or better. Honolulu PD and Hawaiʻi County require a minimum four-hour lecture session and treat the lecture and written exam as valid for four years; Maui requires at least four classroom hours plus at least two hours of range training.
  5. Pass the live-fire shooting proficiency test at 70% or better with EACH firearm you want listed on the license — completed within 90 days before application in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi County, and Kauaʻi.
  6. Obtain the instructor's signed and notarised certification listing your name (confirmed against government-issued photo ID), the date and location of the proficiency test, the firearm(s) used, your actual numeric score, and the instructor's qualifications, name, address and phone number (HRS §134-9(f)). A pass/fail indication alone is insufficient, and an instructor may not sign their own certification.
  7. Assemble the packet using your own county's current forms — Honolulu's concealed application is HPD-150B (revised 08/26), unconcealed HPD-150C, armed guards/detectives HPD-150A; Hawaiʻi County uses form HPD/ADMIN-039A with instructor affidavit HPD-ADMIN-072; Maui and Kauaʻi publish their own. Include the HRS §134-9(d)(5) affidavit of acknowledgment; the instructor certification; a copy of the state firearm registration for each firearm; the HIPAA authorization; the Adult Mental Health Division / mental-health waiver; the State of Hawaiʻi permit-to-acquire questionnaire; valid government-issued photo ID; proof of Hawaii residency (physical address, no P.O. box); and passport-sized front-facing photo(s) taken within 30–90 days depending on county.
  8. Apply IN PERSON to the chief of police of your county (HRS §134-9(d)(1)) and pay the nonrefundable $150 fee, which must be waived on a showing of documented financial hardship. Honolulu can process the $150 only as cash; Hawaiʻi County takes only money order or cashier's check payable to the County Director of Finance and charges $10 for each firearm beyond the first on an initial application; Kauaʻi takes no cash (cashier's check or money order to the Director of Finance, or credit card with a service fee).
  9. The chief of police or a designee performs a National Instant Criminal Background Check System inquiry — including an Immigration and Customs Enforcement database check if you are not a U.S. citizen — before any determination is made (HRS §134-9(c)).
  10. Await the decision. If the chief neither grants nor denies within 120 days following the date of the application, it is deemed denied as of that date for appeal purposes (HRS §134-9(j)); Hawaiʻi County states processing will not exceed 120 calendar days.
  11. If denied, submit a written request for a hearing to your county chief of police no later than 30 days following the date of the decision notice; it is a contested case hearing under ch. 91, and judicial review then lies in state circuit court under HRS §91-14 (HRS §134-9(k)).
  12. Once licensed, know the carry rules that come with it: no more than one firearm on your person at a time (HRS §134-9(q)); each firearm carried must be listed by serial number on the license (HRS §134-9(l)(6)); you must keep the license on your person while carrying and disclose when stopped by law enforcement (HRS §134-9.2); the enumerated sensitive locations in HRS §134-9.1 remain off-limits; a firearm left unattended in a vehicle must be locked in a safe storage depository and a locked trunk or glove box is expressly not one (HRS §134-9.3); and recklessly causing alarm by failing to keep a concealed firearm concealed is a petty misdemeanour (HRS §134-9.7). After Wolford v. Lopez you no longer need the owner's express permission to carry onto private property OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, but an owner may still exclude firearms, and HRS §134-9.5 still applies to private property that is NOT open to the public.
  13. Renew before the 4-year expiration (HRS §134-9(m)) through your county, paying the statutory $50 renewal fee, also waivable for documented hardship; the chief may impose reasonable continuing-education, training, and shooting-proficiency conditions on renewal (HRS §134-9(p)).

Apply on the official Hawaii site

What disqualifies you

Where to get the required training

Hawaii does not publish a central list of certified instructors. Confirm directly with Chief of Police of the applicant's county (Honolulu Police Department, Hawaiʻi Police Department, Maui Police Department, Kauaʻi Police Department). There is no state-level issuing agency; each county chief adopts the implementing procedures (HRS §134-9(o)) and the renewal criteria (HRS §134-9(p)). The Department of the Attorney General only prescribes forms and compiles the annual statewide LTC report required by HRS §134-9.6. that a course will be accepted before you pay for it.

Training providers in Hawaii

Businesses in our directory that offer firearms training. These are not state-verified as certified permit instructors — check against the official list above, or ask the provider directly.

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Reciprocity

Carrying into Hawaii

Hawaii recognizes no out-of-state carry permits. A permit from another state does not authorize you to carry here.

24 jurisdictions honor a Hawaii permit

Derived from what each of those states officially publishes.

Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin

Official Hawaii reciprocity page Full reciprocity matrix →

Building your own in Hawaii

Build for personal use
Prohibited
Serial number required
Yes

Hawaii effectively bans private, self-manufactured firearms; re-verified against the current statute text on 2026-09-15. HRS §134-10.2 (unamended since L 2021, c 149, §2) makes it a CLASS C FELONY for any person who is not licensed to manufacture a firearm under HRS §134-31 and is not a dealer licensed by the U.S. Department of Justice 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 do not have the capacity to function as a firearm unless assembled. An ordinary resident therefore cannot lawfully build an 80%-receiver, parts-kit, or 3D-printed gun. The §134-31 manufacturer license is not a hobbyist route: it is a commercial license for 'any person desiring to engage in the business to sell and manufacture firearms for sale in the State', applied for ANNUALLY with the DIRECTOR OF FINANCE of each county (not the police chief) at a $10 annual fee, expiring each June 30. 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 upon the receiver portion BEFORE registration; a firearm assembled from separate parts and an unfinished receiver is registered with the receiver-registering entity recorded in the manufacturer/importer field and 'assembled from parts' as the model; a build from parts created with a three-dimensional printer is recorded with model '3-D printer' and its registration number must be engraved on stainless steel, permanently embedded to the receiver during fabrication or construction, and visible when the firearm is assembled. Firearms and firearm receivers with engraved or embedded registration numbers must be physically inspected by the county chief of police or designee at registration EVEN IF a licensed dealer did the engraving. Under §134-3(c), only licensed dealers/manufacturers may register an unfinished firearm receiver and receive a serial number before assembly or before sale or transfer to a third party, and any such transfer must be conducted as if the receiver were a fully assembled serialized firearm, through the §134-2 permitting process.

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

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Statutes

What we could not confirm

  • Wolford v. Lopez, No. 24-1046 (U.S. June 25, 2026), is narrower than it is usually described, and the baseline record named the wrong provision. The provision held unconstitutional is HRS §134-9.5(a) — a freestanding section created by Act 52 of 2023 — not HRS §134-9(d)(5)(A)(iii), which is only the affidavit in which an applicant acknowledges §134-9.5. The holding is limited to private property OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: the District Court had denied relief as to private property closed to the public, only the open-to-the-public injunction reached the Court, and the certiorari question was framed that way, so §134-9.5 remains enforceable for private property that is NOT open to the public. The enumerated sensitive-places list in HRS §134-9.1 was not challenged and remains in force — the Court described it but did not rule on it, and Justice Barrett's concurrence discusses §§134-9.1(a)(4), (8), (12) as still-standing law. Note also that violating §134-9.5 was only a misdemeanor under subsec. (e), never a felony.
  • Neither HRS §134-9.5 nor the §134-9(d)(5)(A)(iii) affidavit language has been repealed or amended; both still appear in force on the Legislature's website, because no 2026-session act touched chapter 134 and the Legislature adjourned sine die on 8 May 2026, seven weeks before the decision. A reader consulting the statute will therefore see a prohibition that is now partly unenforceable.
  • Post-decision agency guidance is uneven across the four counties, so verify locally before carrying. Only the Maui Police Department has published anything: a note dated July 2026 on its License to Carry page stating that the Wolford default no-carry provision 'is no longer enforceable' while 'the sensitive/restricted locations enumerated in §134-9 remain in effect', together with a new required curriculum topic on the post-Wolford rule. I found no post-Wolford guidance from the Honolulu Police Department, the Hawaiʻi Police Department, the Kauaʻi Police Department, or the Department of the Attorney General. Honolulu revised its concealed-carry application form in August 2026, after the decision, yet its published checklist still directs applicants to the unmodified HRS §134-9(d)(5)(A)(i–vii) affidavit. Maui's own note also loosely attributes the struck rule to '§134-9' rather than §134-9.5.
  • 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 no county's published LTC checklist (Honolulu, Hawaiʻi County, Kauaʻi) lists new prints at the LTC application itself, and both statutes expressly allow the requirement to be waived where prints and a photograph are already on file. Read the value as 'true for the overall path to a license', not as a separate LTC-stage step.
  • 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 PD and Hawaiʻi County Administrative Rule 1 §1-2-1 both set a four-hour classroom minimum; Maui publishes four classroom hours plus two hours of range training, and allows the classroom component to be delivered by 'instruction and/or a video' despite the statute's in-person wording; Kauaʻi PD publishes no classroom-hour minimum at all, only the 90-day proficiency test. '4+' is the safe statewide floor and a given county may require more.
  • Instructor registry: Hawaii publishes no single statewide list of certified instructors, so instructorRegistryUrl remains null, and one county's list does not qualify an instructor to certify applicants in another county. Honolulu PD provides its Verified Instructors list only at its Firearms Unit windows on request; Kauaʻi PD publishes its verified-instructor list directly on its Firearms Section page; Maui PD publishes a 'Maui County Qualified Firearm Instructors' list dated 7 August 2026 on its License to Carry page; Hawaiʻi County publishes an instructor-verification checklist and application form but not a roster.
  • Reciprocity: Hawaii publishes no reciprocity page, because it has no reciprocity. The 'honors: []' conclusion is inferred from primary law rather than from an affirmative official statement — HRS §134-9(a)(5) restricts licenses to State residents, HRS §134-25 recognizes only §134-5 and §134-9 as exceptions to the class B felony, and I confirmed against the full chapter 134 section index that no section of the chapter recognizes an out-of-state license.
  • Fee detail: statutory fees are $150 initial and $50 renewal (HRS §134-9(i), (p)) and must be waived for documented financial hardship in every county. Hawaiʻi County publicly states the $150 covers one firearm and adds $10 per additional firearm on an initial application. I still 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 that some licensees hold multiple licenses to cover multiple carry guns and that the exact policies vary by county.
  • Statute-site currency: the Legislature's /hrscurrent/ compilation directory was last written on 6 January 2026, so it incorporates session laws only through 2025 (§134-7 shows 'am L 2025, c 16, §1'). To cover the 2026 session I checked the Legislative Reference Bureau's 'Bills Passed ... Regular Session of 2026' per-bill 'Section Affected' index (actions as of 8 May 2026, sine die): no bill passed in that session affects any HRS chapter 134 section, and no firearms-, ammunition- or weapons-titled bill passed at all. The 2026 assault-weapons bill SB 401 CD2 died — all House and Senate conferees were discharged on 1–2 April 2026 and its measure page shows a blank Act field — which resolves the baseline's open question about it. Chapter 134 therefore stands as compiled.
  • The Legislature's statute pages returned HTTP 403 to a plain fetch and served content only to a request carrying a full browser header set, so the statute text here was read from the live capitol.hawaii.gov HTML rather than from an agency reproduction; the Internet Archive was unreachable from this environment, so no archived capture could be cited as a cross-check. Kauaʻi County's site likewise returned HTTP 403 to direct requests and its Firearms Section content was retrieved through a rendering fetch, so the Kauaʻi figures are from the live page but were not captured as raw HTML.
  • 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)).

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