SCOTUS Rejects Challenge To Hawaii Gun Permit Law

USA Today reports:

Christopher Wilson had a loaded pistol in his waistband when the Maui Police Department in 2017 responded to a complaint that he was trespassing on private property. Wilson did not, though, have a permit to carry that gun. And in a case that put a spotlight on Hawaii’s strict gun regulations, as well as on its low rate of gun deaths, his challenge to the permit requirement made its way to the Supreme Court − which, in recent years, has embraced a looser approach to guns.

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to overturn a ruling in that case by Hawaii’s top court. Justice Clarence Thomas, in a statement joined by Justice Samuel Alito, said too many courts are not giving the Second Amendment proper respect. “The decision below is the latest example,” Thomas wrote. 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.

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