Wolford v. Lopez · ¶174

First, the majority insists that the “why” is different because the historical laws targeted poaching. In the majority’s view, the “obvious aim” of Hawaii’s founding-era analogues “was to prevent the distinctive harms and risks associated with unauthorized hunting.” Ante, at 21; see ante, at 21–22 (noting further that the laws targeted conduct that “entailed the theft of private property” and “the firing of guns”).

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