In the four years since Hawaiʻi made it a felony to manufacture or possess unserialized parts used to create firearms, the number of ghost guns that police are recovering has increased dramatically.
Honolulu police reported 68 cases involving a ghost gun in the first 10 months of 2024 alone — a nearly 120% increase from that same period the year before, according to data presented to lawmakers in February.
Yet not a single person in Honolulu has been charged for possessing these untraceable weapons, which pose a threat to the state’s strict gun regulations and low gun violence rates…