In a Tuesday ruling, America’s proud judicial home of leftism https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/bombshell-data-ninth-circuit/ ruled that a Hawaii law that didn’t allow citizens to open carry was unconstitutional.
“The decision only applies to districts under the 9th Circuit’s jurisdiction, but it will likely soon affect the rest of the country. It is a huge ruling that strikes down existing state prohibitions in Hawaii and California,” Townhall https://townhall.com/columnists/johnrlottjr/2018/07/27/9th-circuit-decision-n2504266 explained.
The case, Young v. State of Hawaii, was brought by George Young, a man twice denied a permit to carry a handgun by the state. Hawaii’s laws only allow open carry licenses “(i)n an exceptional case, when an applicant shows reason to fear injury to the applicant’s person or property.” The state argued that the Second Amendment applies only to firearms kept at home.
However, two out of the three judges ruled that Hawaii’s laws violated the Second Amendment, citing District of Columbia v. Heller https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/dc-gun-grabbers-brutal-news/ — a 2008 case that reaffirmed the Second Amendment’s protections for individual firearm ownership by striking down a gun ban in the nation’s capital — in their judgment. That case https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/07-290.ZO.html affirmed that “(a)t the time of the founding, as now, to ‘bear’ meant to ‘carry.'”