Hawai’i Supreme Court Says No Right to Bear Arms in Public

The Hawai’i Constitution doesn’t recognize a right to bear arms in public, the Hawai’i Supreme Court said, criticizing the reasoning used by the US Supreme Court to recognize the right in the Second Amendment.

In its Second Amendment cases, the US Supreme Court “distorts and cherry-picks historical evidence. It shrinks, alters, and discards historical facts that don’t fit,” the Hawai’i Supreme Court said. “Time-traveling to 1791 or 1868 to collar how a state regulates lethal weapons—per the Constitution’s democratic design—is a dangerous way to look at the federal constitution.” Life “is a bit different now, in a nation with a ...