by The quote of the day comes from Justice Samuel Alito in his majority opinion in Wolford v. Lopez which invalidated the State of Hawaii’s “vampire rule.” That law said that carry was only permitted in private businesses where it was expressly and openly permitted as opposed to those that had posted against carry.
The Second Amendment cannot give way to “the spirit of Aloha” in Hawaii, contra, State v. Wilson, 154 Haw. 8, 27, 543 P. 3d 440, any more than it can yield to the spirit of the Big Apple (Bruen) or the Windy City (McDonald). Merely local attitudes can neither shrink nor inflate the meaning of fundamental Bill of Rights guarantees that apply to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment.
This is a win for the Second Amendment in more places than Hawaii. New York is one state that immediately comes to mind.
My congratulations to attorney Alan Beck on his first win in the Supreme Court.
You can read the whole decision here.