Hawaii’s Handgun Purchase, Inspection Laws Held Unconstitutional

Hawaii’s requirements that a person purchase a handgun within 30 days of obtaining a permit to do so, and then present the gun at a police station for inspection within five days of the purchase, violate the Second Amendment, the Ninth Circuit said Friday.

Although the state has an interest in ensuring that background information isn’t stale, it didn’t show that information more than 30 days old is stale, Judge Daniel P. Collins said for the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The state also failed to show that its physical inspection requirement materially advanced its interest in ...