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The U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling on Thursday invalidating Hawaii’s gun restrictions on private property.
The 6-3 vote ruled that the state’s restrictions violate the constitutional right to bear arms.
Justice Samuel Alito sided with firearm rights advocates that Hawaii cannot bar handgun possession on private property by default unless someone receives the owner’s consent.
“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,” he wrote in the majority opinion. “We hold that the law is unconstitutional.”
All three of the court’s liberal justices—Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson—dissented.
The case stemmed from one of Hawaii’s 2023 firearm laws, which barred people from carrying guns in certain public spaces and on private property without the property owner’s permission.
These places included “sensitive places” such as beaches and restaurants, The Guardian reported.
The law was challenged by three Maui residents who were permitted to carry concealed firearms and the Hawaii Firearms Coalition, according to the outlet. The groups argued that the law violated their Second Amendment rights and did not meet the precedent set by a 2022 Bruen v New York ruling requiring firearm laws to be consistent with national gun regulations.