Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Holding on Handgun Possession
Hawaii's Private Property Notification Rule Is Constitutional
In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen (2022), the Supreme Court announced the appropriate general methodology for deciding Second Amendment challenges to state laws: When the Second Amendment’s plain text covers an individual’s conduct, the Constitution presumptively protects that conduct. The government must then justify its regulation by demonstrating that it is consistent with the nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation. With respect to the historical analysis at Bruen’s second step, the court required a different showing depending on whether the government’s regulation addresses a societal problem that has persisted since the founding or one that is…
