Supreme Court weighs Hawaii's default gun ban on private property open to the public
The Supreme Court will hear Wolford v. Lopez, challenging Hawaii’s law that bars carrying firearms onto private property that is open to the public unless the property owner consents. Proponents frame the rule as protecting property rights; opponents argue it makes carry effectively illegal in many public-facing spaces and tests Bruen’s historical-analogue framework. The case probes how Bruen should be applied to private-property restrictions and whether courts should look to Founding-era or 19th-century laws, with potential implications for future gun-restriction rulings.