After the Supreme Court upheld the right to bear arms in the 2022 case New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, several states made it easier to obtain carry permits but much harder to use them. Even as they eliminated requirements that applicants demonstrate a "special need" to carry guns in public for self-defense, they banned firearms from long lists of "sensitive" locations. On Thursday, the Supreme Court rejected a variation on that theme: Hawaii's default rule against guns on private property open to the public.
After a federal judge in Hawaii enjoined enforcement of that rule in 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit overturned her order, deeming the law consistent with the Second Amendment. Not so, the Supreme Court says in Wolford v. Lopez.
