Cops and Politicians versus Gun Rights

On the liberty front, Hawaii manages to be even more screwed up than California. You May Soon See People Openly Carrying Guns In Hawaii - Honolulu Civil Beat

Hawaii has been a "May Issue" state on the subject of concealed carry. And since cops have discretion, they see no reason to let the Little People be armed. "It's for their own good!"

“There’s been almost zero carry permits issued for civilians in the past 20 years,” [Todd Yukutake, director of the Hawaii Firearms Coalition] said.

But with the recent SCOTUS ruling, they know that will change, and they are not happy. (I'm shocked to discover that police don't want to give up their tyrannical power over the citizens.)

Michelle Yu, a spokeswoman for the Honolulu Police Department, says HPD is currently reviewing the ruling and talking with the city attorney and other county police departments about what to do. “The HPD’s firearms permitting procedures are unchanged at this time but are being evaluated in light of the ruling,” she said.

The folks of Hawaii don't even have to wait for a suit to be brought, one is already through the 9th Circuit. (They sided with the gun-controllers - are we shocked?)

Known as a grant, vacate and remand, or GVR, order, the two-sentence statement issued on Thursday struck down a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit that had supported Hawaii laws that had been used to generally deny people the right to carry guns outside the home, with few exceptions.

The high court essentially told the San Francisco-based appellate court: See what the Supreme Court just said in a similar case, New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen, and get it right this time.

So Hawaii may soon have both open carry and concealed carry, but probably at least concealed carry.

New York, and Hawaii, and California, and whatever other states are wrining their hands over the recent SCOTUS ruling should take a breath and realize that what SCOTUS said was that they basically need to adopt a law similar to what Ohio had in January of this year, and for the past 10 or 12 years, at least. (Ohio has another law as of the middle of June, but that is another story.) And not just Ohio, but most of the states. Well, about half the states now have Constitutional Carry, but New York, Hawaii, et al would faint dead away if that is what SCOTUS mandated. It wasn't.