In a major win for gun owners, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Hawaii’s restrictions on concealed-carry permit holders violate the Second and 14th Amendments. The decision was 6-3, with Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson in the dissent.
Known as Wolford v. Lopez, the case stems from a 2023 legal challenge against Hawaii’s “vampire rule” restricting citizens with concealed carry permits from carrying on private property open to the public unless they received explicit authorization to do so from the property owner, manager, or lessee. The plaintiffs argued that the law infringed their Second Amendment rights.
