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State of Hawai'i v. Christopher L. Wilson is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of Hawaii. [1]It concluded that "there is no state constitutional right to carry a firearm in public" and that "as the world turns, it makes no sense for contemporary society to pledge allegiance to the founding era’s culture, realities, laws, and understanding of the [American] Constitution."
The Hawaii Supreme Court's decision was critical of the U.S. Supreme Court's widening of rights under the Second Amendment and in particular the reasoning in the Bruen decision. The Hawaii court ...
The Hawaii Supreme Court said the 2022 Supreme Court test created in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen doesn’t bar states from requiring a license to publicly carry a gun.
The principal purpose of the Supreme Court is to review the decisions of the trial courts in which appeals have been granted. Appeals are decided by the members of the Supreme Court based on written records and in some cases may grant oral arguments in the main Supreme Court chamber. Like its mainland United States counterparts, the Supreme ...
A state court judge agreed and threw out the case. But Hawaii's highest court revived the case in a blistering opinion, calling the 2022 Supreme Court decision “fuzzy” and “backward looking” over its requirement for modern gun laws to be rooted in the country's historical regulations. Wilson appealed to the nation's highest court.
Hawaii [9] [10] [11] was a "may issue" state for concealed carry and open carry. "In an exceptional case, when an applicant shows reason to fear injury to the applicant's person or property," a license to carry a pistol or revolver (which allows both open and concealed carry) may be granted or denied at the discretion of the county police chief. [12]
In 2022 the U.S. Supreme Court limited states’ abilities to restrict the carrying of firearms in its ruling in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, now known as the Bruen decision.
In a second case, the Supreme Court of Hawaii upheld a state requirement for having a permit to carry a gun in public, ruling that the recent decision of Bruen and other gun rights cases by the U.S. Supreme Court since Heller have turned against the "militia-centric" reading of the Second Amendment, and that "states retain the authority to ...