Wolford v. Lopez · ¶3

For years, the State of Hawaii made it almost impossible to obtain a license to carry a frearm. Four years ago, however, this Court held in New York State Rife & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U. S. 1 (2022), that the Second and Fourteenth Amendments protect the right to carry handguns outside the home for self-defense. Hawaii responded by replacing its old law on carry permits with new laws that achieved a similar result. On a large portion of the land within the State's boundaries, possession of a frearm is now fatly prohibited. And the law now before us severely burdens the ability to carry a frearm in much of the rest of the State by prohibiting frearms on private property without the express and affrmative consent of the property owner.

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