Supreme Court strikes down Hawaii law requiring permission to carry guns in stores and hotels

[dalton99a]

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-guns-hawaii-trump-c5dbdf945bc870f70a03455f5eb1dec7

Supreme Court strikes down Hawaii law requiring permission to carry guns in stores and hotels
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Updated 9:11 AM CDT, June 25, 2026

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court struck down a Hawaii law requiring people to get permission to carry guns into stores and hotels on Thursday, in its latest opinion backing Second Amendment rights.

The high court’s 6-3 decision means people can carry guns onto privately owned property like shopping malls and gas stations, unless the owners specifically say guns are banned at their establishments. It comes shortly after the court found that marijuana users can’t be completely banned from owning firearms.

It’s a win for President Donald Trump’s Republican administration, which argued the law violates the Second Amendment. The measure was sometimes referred to as a “vampire rule” because it required people with guns get permission to enter, like vampire lore says bloodsuckers need an invitation to enter a home.

Hawaii argued that the 2023 measure ensured private owners could decide whether they wanted firearms on their property. The state passed the law as thousands more people got legal permission to carry guns in the wake of a 2022 Supreme Court ruling that found the Second Amendment gives most people the right to have guns in public.

About four other states have enacted similar laws, though presumptive restrictions for guns on private property open to the public have also been blocked elsewhere.

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[Buckeyeblue]

1. I'm in Michigan. Occasional I'll see people at the grocery store wearing a gun and holster

Truthfully, it makes me feel uneasy and at all safer.

[Igel]

4. The store can simply post a sign saying no firearms.

Used to see them all the time in Oregon, and see them from time to time in Texas.

[edhopper]

2. The Supreme Court

Defines the 2nd Amendment according to the NRA not the a Federalist Papers and the Founders.
They think Well Regulated, is a meaningless clause.

[Manatee]

3. The Louisiana law

Hawaii cited was part of the 'Black Codes' intended to limit the freedom of movement and the right to bear arms of the newly-freed slaves. As explained in the New York Tribune, March 7, 1866, the statute making it unlawful to “carry firearms on the premises or plantations of any citizen” without consent was part of “a code of laws for Africans establishing a system of serfdom, forbidding the free passage of blacks from one plantation to another, and under the form of apprenticeship and Vagrant laws reenacting slavery in fact.”

[Igel]

5. And that was either shameful

or a cynical attempt to say, "Hey, you racists, here's a precedent you'll like".

And, no, I don't think that's what Katyal did. I think they were scrambling for any historical justification of any kind. Like the anti-poaching laws, which was carry for a specific reason and not "carry" for the sake of some unknown reason. Rather like we can ban some speech--for a specific reason that suits a government interest; but banning all speech would be a no-no.