WASHINGTON, June 25 (DC Times Online) — The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down Hawaii’s law requiring concealed-carry permit holders to get a property owner’s consent before entering certain privately owned places open to the public.
In a 6-3 decision in Wolford v. Lopez, Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority that Hawaii’s rule “violates the constitutional right to keep and bear arms.” NBC News reported that three liberal justices dissented.
Alito also wrote that the law “hobble[s] what the Second Amendment protects: the right of Americans to carry arms for self-defense as they go about their daily lives,” according to reporting on the opinion by WQLN/NPR and Daily Wire.
The ruling adds to the court’s modern Second Amendment cases, including District of Columbia v. Heller in 2008, when the court struck down Washington’s handgun ban, and McDonald v. City of Chicago in 2010, which extended the right to keep and bear arms against state and local governments.
