The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a Second Amendment challenge to a Hawaii law that bans guns on private property open to the public without the owner's "express authorization." The case, Wolford v. Lopez, involves one of several attempted end runs around the Court's 2022 ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, which upheld the constitutional right to carry guns in public for self-defense without demonstrating a "special need."
Several states, including New York, Hawaii, California, Maryland, and New Jersey, responded to Bruen by making carry permits easier to obtain but much harder to use. They banned guns from long lists of "sensitive places" that covered a lot of territory, which in many cases made it impractical to legally exercise the right that the Supreme Court had recognized.
