Divided Supreme Court rejects Hawaii gun restrictions under Second Amendment
A divided Supreme Court sided with concealed carry permit holders, who challenged a Hawaii ban on bringing guns onto private property that’s open to the public without getting the owner’s express permission.
Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion that said the state’s law violates the Second and Fourteenth Amendments, over dissent from the court’s Democratic appointees.
The challengers argued that the ban ran afoul of the high court’s 2022 ruling in the Bruen case that said gun regulations can’t stand unless they’re “consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.” The challengers said that Hawaii’s rule was “without historical support.”
The state disagreed, maintaining that there is a long history of a right to exclude people from private property and that a property owner who opens their property to the public doesn’t forfeit their right to exclude firearms.
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Jordan Rubin is the Deadline: Legal Blog writer. He was a prosecutor for the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and is the author of “Bizarro,” a book about the secret war on synthetic drugs. Before he joined MS NOW, he was a legal reporter for Bloomberg Law.
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