Wolford v. Lopez · ¶175

But to set the principle of Hawaii’s analogues at “poaching” is to demand a historical twin insofar as it requires the modern legislature to target an identical problem as legislatures in the past. Such a narrow search results in a “law trapped in amber.” Rahimi, 602 U. S., at 691. Seen at the correct level of generality, however—i.e., one that does not put the modern legislature into a “regulatory straight- jacket,” Bruen, 597 U. S., at 30—historical laws targeting poaching are also appropriately viewed as being aimed at protecting the property rights of landowners from the harms of unauthorized armed carry on their property. Hawaii’s law does the same.

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