{"id":923,"date":"2011-07-28T13:06:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T17:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=923"},"modified":"2011-07-28T13:06:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T19:10:42","slug":"guns-of-hawaii-the-royal-hawaiian-shooting-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/guns-of-hawaii-the-royal-hawaiian-shooting-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting Tourism in Hawaii- The Royal Hawaiian Shooting Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"margin: 10px;width: 430px\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/administration\/user\/GunsAmericaRegistration.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"guns-of-hawaii-the-royal-hawaiian-shooting-club\" title=\"Shooting Tourism in Hawaii- The Royal Hawaiian Shooting Club\" target=\"_new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/subscribe+long+banner_0013.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"block\"><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/photo1-bordered.JPG\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"guns-of-hawaii-the-royal-hawaiian-shooting-club\" title=\"Shooting Tourism in Hawaii- The Royal Hawaiian Shooting Club\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/photo1-bordered1.JPG\" alt=\"This upscale range in a high end Waikiki Mall is part of a new type of tourism, a place to allow people from around the world to enjoy the freedoms that we have as Americans to keep and bear arms\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"block\" style=\"padding-bottom:10px\"><em>This upscale range in a high end Waikiki Mall is part of a new type of  tourism, a place to allow people from around the world to enjoy the freedoms that  we have as Americans to keep and bear arms.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"block\"><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/photo2-bordered.JPG\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"guns-of-hawaii-the-royal-hawaiian-shooting-club\" title=\"Shooting Tourism in Hawaii- The Royal Hawaiian Shooting Club\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/photo2-bordered1.JPG\" alt=\"My first intro to the Royal Hawaiian Shooting Club was this poster.  Imagine finding something like this in your local mall\" width=\"393\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"block\" style=\"padding-bottom:10px\"><em>My first intro to the Royal Hawaiian Shooting Club was this poster.\u00a0 Imagine finding something like this in your  local mall. <\/em><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"block\"><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/traditions-pa-pellet-flintlock-muzzleloader-rear-sight.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"guns-of-hawaii-the-royal-hawaiian-shooting-club\" title=\"Shooting Tourism in Hawaii- The Royal Hawaiian Shooting Club\" target=\"_top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/photo3-bordered-small.JPG\" alt=\"Plaques signed by numerous celebrities demonstrate the high end popularity of rental places like the Royal Hawaiian Shooters Club\" width=\"233\" height=\"158\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"block\" style=\"padding-bottom:10px\"><em>Plaques signed by numerous celebrities demonstrate the high end  popularity of rental places like the Royal Hawaiian Shooters Club.    <\/em><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"block\"><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/photo4-bordered_001.JPG\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"guns-of-hawaii-the-royal-hawaiian-shooting-club\" title=\"Shooting Tourism in Hawaii- The Royal Hawaiian Shooting Club\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/photo4-bordered_0011.JPG\" alt=\"A professional teaching center is part of the atmosphere.  Included are several \u201cinert\u201d versions of popular guns to use as teaching aids \" width=\"400\" height=\"261\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"block\"><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/photo5-bordered.JPG\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"guns-of-hawaii-the-royal-hawaiian-shooting-club\" title=\"Shooting Tourism in Hawaii- The Royal Hawaiian Shooting Club\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/photo5-bordered1.JPG\" alt=\"A professional teaching center is part of the atmosphere.  Included are several \u201cinert\u201d versions of popular guns to use as teaching aids \" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"block\" style=\"padding-bottom:10px\"><em>A professional teaching center is part of the atmosphere.\u00a0 Included are several \u201cinert\u201d versions of  popular guns to use as teaching aids. <\/em><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"block\" style=\"padding-bottom:10px\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"block\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/photo6-bordered-small.JPG\" alt=\"Dean Probyn, shows off his target at the Royal Hawaiian.  This boat racer gets to enjoy shooting here in the US in a way he never could in New Zealand\" width=\"233\" height=\"158\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"block\" style=\"padding-bottom:10px\"><em>Dean Probyn, shows off his target at the Royal Hawaiian.\u00a0 This boat racer gets to enjoy shooting here  in the US in a way he never  could in New Zealand.  <\/em><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"block\"><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/photo7-bordered.JPG\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"guns-of-hawaii-the-royal-hawaiian-shooting-club\" title=\"Shooting Tourism in Hawaii- The Royal Hawaiian Shooting Club\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/photo7-bordered1.JPG\" alt=\"Guns are tethered safely in the stalls of the shooting range to prevent any accidents\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"block\" style=\"padding-bottom:10px\"><em>Guns are tethered safely in the stalls of the shooting range to prevent  any accidents.  <\/em><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"block\"><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/photo8-bordered.JPG\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"guns-of-hawaii-the-royal-hawaiian-shooting-club\" title=\"Shooting Tourism in Hawaii- The Royal Hawaiian Shooting Club\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/photo8-bordered1.JPG\" alt=\"The indoor range was well set up, and conveyed an image of professionalism for both new and experienced shooters\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"block\" style=\"padding-bottom:10px\"><em>The indoor range was well set up, and conveyed an image of  professionalism for both new and experienced shooters. <\/em><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:17px\" align=\"left\"><strong>Gun Tourism, How Shooting Ranges Have Cashed in<\/strong><\/div>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>On a New Kind of Tourism\u2026and Have Shared the Love of Shooting along the  Way<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Brian Jensen<\/p>\n<p><strong>RHS Shooting:<\/strong><br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rhshooting.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"guns-of-hawaii-the-royal-hawaiian-shooting-club\" title=\"Shooting Tourism in Hawaii- The Royal Hawaiian Shooting Club\" class=\"clickTracking\" target=\"_new\">https:\/\/www.rhshooting.com\/en\/<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I  recently visited the Islands of Hawaii, putting some of my hard earned vacation  dollars to work.\u00a0 While there, I noticed  something unusual in the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center in downtown  Waikiki.\u00a0 It was a billboard ad for a  shooting range, of all things, where tourists could rent guns and shoot! <br \/>\n  Now  I\u2019m from California, and a shooting range is the next thing to an adult book  store there, so I was pretty surprised to see the ad, much less in an urban  shopping center.\u00a0 Since my interest was  piqued, I had to wander up to the top floor to see what\u2019s what.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>The Setting: Hawaii\u2019s Not-so-gun-friendly atmosphere.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hawaii  is a beautiful paradise and gun crime there is quite low.\u00a0 ( It actually came in dead last, pardon the  pun, at <a href=\"#_ftn1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"guns-of-hawaii-the-royal-hawaiian-shooting-club\" title=\"Shooting Tourism in Hawaii- The Royal Hawaiian Shooting Club\" name=\"_ftnref1\" title=\"\">2.8 deaths per 100,000<\/a>.)\u00a0 Many will argue that this is due to the  Island\u2019s isolation from a land border which prevents smuggling, and very strict  gun laws.\u00a0 Residents must take a state  mandated class, get a clearance \/ permit from police, and then present this to  the gun store just to buy a gun; a process that can take some time.\u00a0 Transporting guns is strictly regulated, and  you need to go directly from home to the range and back to home.\u00a0 Getting caught to grab a burger or a snack on  the way can land you in trouble with the law.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>There  is only one public range on Oahu, and with only limited availability.\u00a0 All the other ranges are privately owned,  indoor ranges.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>But  in the midst of all this, remember, this is Hawaii; a playground for millions  of tourists from all over the world, many of whom have never even handled a  gun, much less fired one.\u00a0 When they come  here, they come to a land blessed with the Second Amendment where guns, while  somewhat restricted, are still accessible. <\/p>\n<p>The  local entrepreneurs recognized the opportunity this presented and ran with  it.\u00a0 Why not let people have a taste of  the freedom to bear arms and see what it\u2019s like to actually fire a pistol  rather than only see it in a movie?<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Clientele<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hawaii  in general, and Honolulu in particular, are uniquely positioned to attract  those who come to enjoy its vacation industry.\u00a0\u00a0  I asked Nicholas Haigler, one of the Assistant Managers of the Royal  Hawaiian Shooting Club as the range is called, what kinds of customers come  into his establishment.\u00a0 He said around  80% are first time shooters.\u00a0 Many are  from Japan where the ownership of firearms is banned for almost everyone, and  have never even touched a gun.\u00a0 Likewise,  people from Australia, New Zealand, or Canada, where gun laws are very  restrictive, can shoot something they would have otherwise never gotten a  chance to handle.\u00a0 While I was there, I  bumped into two women from Germany who were shooting .22\u2019s and having a  ball.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><strong>Training for All<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Someone  can\u2019t just come in, check out a gun and start blazing.\u00a0 Nicholas told me everyone gets a safety class  and briefing on how to handle the pistols.\u00a0  In addition, they have numerous dummy guns to demonstrate with and use  to teach these new shooters.\u00a0 On top of  it all, the staff at the Royal Hawaiian Shooting Club are all NRA certified  instructors with anywhere from 15-19 years of instructor \/ shooting experience.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Not  only do they put on classes at the club in compliance with their local and  state laws for the certification of Hawaiian shooters, but they also host  shooting classes and experiences for the interested novice.\u00a0 They even participate in the shooting classes  for high school teams in the area.\u00a0 (You  heard that right. High schools are still doing marksmanship classes in Hawaii.)\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Going from  shooting .22\u2019s to big caliber .44\u2019s and others is a favorite choice for  visitors.\u00a0 For them, this is a treasure trove  of new experiences.\u00a0 Imagine a person  from overseas who\u2019s not even allowed to possess anything resembling a gun,  getting to see and shoot the gun from \u201cDirty Harry\u201d \u2013 now that\u2019s a story to  write home about.<\/p>\n<p>While  the Royal Hawaiian Shooting Club facilities are restricted to the guns supplied  by the club, they soon hope to open their facility for guns supplied by the  shooter.\u00a0 They plan to kick this off with  an upcoming shooting tournament that will bring shooters from all over the  country.\u00a0 However, being located in the  middle of an upscale shopping mall in the center of Waikiki has made this  somewhat of a challenge.\u00a0 Nicholas says  they\u2019re working through this by educating the surrounding tenants and customers  about what they do and the safety precautions they take.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><strong>Seeing it for Myself,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So,  Mr. Haigler showed me into the range and the first thing I saw was one of the  only Handicapped accessible shooting stalls in the state.\u00a0 Inside was Dean Probyn, a race boat driver  from New Zealand who\u2019s confined to a wheelchair.\u00a0 Dean was smiling ear to ear after doing some  shooting with a Glock 9mm and a CAR-9.\u00a0  He proudly showed off the target he shot using the 9mm AR Carbine.\u00a0 Probyn said he enjoyed the club in Waikiki  simply because there really aren\u2019t any ranges of this type in New Zealand, and  here he gets a chance to enjoy guns like the Glock and Colt.<\/p>\n<p>In  the next section, I saw a 17-lane shooting range that was clean, professionally  set up, and that would likely make any range aficionado drool.\u00a0 This is the largest indoor range of its type  in Hawaii.\u00a0 Shooters can shoot out to  what appeared to be 15 yards, and have choices of pistols and rifles of various  calibers.<br \/>\n  There  are some idiosyncrasies that may seem a little odd to you.\u00a0 Because the range is a rental setup, and  because some of their customers have never shot before and may have only a  rudimentary understanding of range safety, the guns are all tethered in their  booth with the barrels secured so that they point in only one direction,  downrange.\u00a0 This prevents the shooter from  having too much freedom with the gun and unintentionally \u201clasering\u201d someone  with the muzzle.\u00a0 It also keeps the guns  secure right where they are. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Not the Only One:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While  the Royal Hawaiian Shooting Club is regarded by many as the nicest rental setup  of its kind in the islands, it is by no means the only one.\u00a0 Walking along Kalakaua Avenue in the heart of  tourist saturated Waikiki, amongst the street performers and vendors selling  their touristy trinkets, were several men with shirts and sandwich boards  advertising other ranges.\u00a0 Like any other  street advertiser, they were passing out flyers and drumming up business for  this new \u201ctourism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Royal  Hawaiian doesn\u2019t like to advertise in that way because of the professional image  they want to project, but they aren\u2019t worried about the competition as their  customers keep coming.\u00a0 Even celebrities  come to their range to shoot.\u00a0 On a wall  by the entrance are many plaques from visiting shooters, including such big  names as Shaquille O&#8217;Neal. <\/p>\n<p><strong>In Closing:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The  trip into this little bit of tourism made me appreciate even the limited amount  of second amendment freedoms I enjoy here in CA.\u00a0 As we continue to struggle against  infringements of our right to keep and bear arms, we sometimes forget how  unique we are as a nation to have the Second Amendment at all.\u00a0 <br \/>\n  What  I found even more encouraging is that what has also made us great as a nation,  our entrepreneurial spirit, is alive and well and plugged into shooting.\u00a0 Gun enthusiasts have found a way to make our  firearms freedom a business, and a way to spread a little of the Second  Amendment around the world.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Webpage: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rhshooting.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"guns-of-hawaii-the-royal-hawaiian-shooting-club\" title=\"Shooting Tourism in Hawaii- The Royal Hawaiian Shooting Club\" class=\"clickTracking\" target=\"_new\">https:\/\/www.rhshooting.com\/en\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"guns-of-hawaii-the-royal-hawaiian-shooting-club\" title=\"Shooting Tourism in Hawaii- The Royal Hawaiian Shooting Club\" name=\"_ftn1\" title=\"\"> <\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statemaster.com\/graph\/cri_mur_wit_fir-death-rate-per-100-000\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"guns-of-hawaii-the-royal-hawaiian-shooting-club\" title=\"Shooting Tourism in Hawaii- The Royal Hawaiian Shooting Club\" class=\"clickTracking\" target=\"_new\">https:\/\/www.statemaster.com\/graph\/cri_mur_wit_fir-death-rate-per-100-000<\/a>,  2002 statistics<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/gun-ranges-in-hawaii-shooting-tourism\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.gunsamerica.com\/d\/5322-2\/photo1-bordered.JPG\" alt=\"This upscale range in a high end Waikiki Mall is part of a new type of tourism, a place to allow people from around the world to enjoy the freedoms that we have as Americans to keep and bear arms\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" title=\"This upscale range in a high end Waikiki Mall is part of a new type of tourism, a place to allow people from around the world to enjoy the freedoms that we have as Americans to keep and bear arms\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/the-pa-pellet-flintlock-from-traditions-performance-firearms\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/airforce-talon-ss-and-condor-for-fun-shooting\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/rob-leatham-designs-a-new-xdm-for-competition-\u2013-the-xdm-5-25\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I  recently visited the Islands of Hawaii, putting some of my hard earned vacation  dollars to work.  While there, I noticed  something unusual in the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center in downtown  Waikiki.  It was a billboard ad for a  shooting range, of all things, where tourists could rent guns and shoot! <br \/>\nNow  I\u2019m from California, and a shooting range is the next thing to an adult book  store there, so I was pretty surprised to see the ad, much less in an urban  shopping center.  Since my interest was  piqued, I had to wander up to the top floor to see what\u2019s what.   <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/gun-ranges-in-hawaii-shooting-tourism\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,25],"tags":[],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-gunsamerica-authors","7":"category-brian","8":"category-current-events"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shooting Tourism in Hawaii- The Royal Hawaiian Shooting Club<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Shooting Tourism in Hawaii- The Royal Hawaiian Shooting Club -\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/guns-of-hawaii-the-royal-hawaiian-shooting-club\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shooting Tourism in Hawaii- The Royal Hawaiian Shooting Club\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I recently visited the Islands of Hawaii, putting some of my hard earned vacation dollars to work. While there, I noticed something unusual in the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center in downtown Waikiki. It was a billboard ad for a shooting range, of all things, where tourists could rent guns and shoot!  Now I\u2019m from California, and a shooting range is the next thing to an adult book store there, so I was pretty surprised to see the ad, much less in an urban shopping center. Since my interest was piqued, I had to wander up to the top floor to see what\u2019s what.   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