The U.S. Supreme Court voted 6-3 to strike down a Hawaii anti-gun law attempting to prevent Americans from possessing guns while in businesses open to the public with express permission first from the owner.
Justice Alito wrote in his decision, “When these permit holders leave home in the morning, not only must they take care to avoid all the territory where the possession of a gun is prohibited outright, but they may also be barred from entering many places that people routinely visit in the course of their daily routines… This regime hobbles what the Second Amendment protects: the right of Americans to carry arms for self-defense as they go about their daily lives. We hold that the law is unconstitutional.”
Hawaii’s Concealed Carry Restriction Is Unconstitutional– thefederalist.com
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In a major win for gun owners, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Hawaii’s restrictions on concealed-carry permit holders violate the Second and 14th Amendments. The decision was 6-3, with Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson in the dissent.
Known as Wolford v. Lopez, the case stems from a 2023 legal challenge against Hawaii’s “vampire rule” restricting citizens with concealed carry permits from carrying on private property open to the public unless they received explicit authorization to do so from the property owner, manager, or lessee. The plaintiffs argued that the law infringed their Second Amendment rights.
Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito noted how the Hawaii law “severely burdens the ability to carry a firearm in much of the rest of the State by prohibiting firearms on private property without the express and affirmative consent of the property owner.” He further detailed the lengths concealed-carry holders must go to avoid violating these “severe restrictions,” which he added infringe upon their Second Amendment rights.
