In a major win for Second Amendment rights, the Supreme Court has sided with three Hawaii residents, overturning a law that barred concealed-carry permitholders from exercising their rights in public.
All three liberal justices dissented in the 6-3 ruling.
Per The Hill:
Hawaii enacted the measure, known as Act 52, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment expansion.
Act 52 requires concealed carry permitholders to get explicit permission from a property owner, either verbally, in writing or via a “clear and conspicuous” sign, before carrying handguns on private property that is open to the public.
Three Hawaii residents — Jason Wolford, Alison Wolford and Atom Kasprzycki — and the Hawaii Firearms Coalition challenged the provision in federal court.
They won before a district judge but sought the Supreme Court’s review after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit sided with the state.
“This law departs sharply from the standard common-law rule on access to private property held open to the public. Under that rule, everyone, including those lawfully carrying firearms, may enter unless expressly prohibited from doing so. By contrast, under the new Hawaii law, no one carrying a firearm may enter without the property owner’s express authorization,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the majority opinion for the court.
“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.”
This comes after the Supreme Court also ruled in favor of gun rights for marijuana users in Texas after a man argued his Second Amendment was violated by a law barring gun ownership by anyone who uses drugs illegally.
Notably, it was the same law that Hunter Biden was prosecuted and convicted under for purchasing a firearm while addicted to crack cocaine. However, the high court did not address banning firearm usage from active drug addicts or those presently intoxicated with illegal drugs in its narrow ruling, only addressing the rights of marijuana users.
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