Hawaii gun case at Supreme Court pits gun rights against private property laws

The Supreme Court will hear another significant gun rights case on Tuesday when it weighs a challenge to a sweeping Hawaii gun law preemptively barring people from carrying guns on private property.

Hawaii’s Act 52, enacted in 2023, bans handgun owners who have a concealed carry permit from bringing their weapon onto private property unless the owner or manager has given the person “express authorization to carry a firearm on the property.” Gun rights advocates have claimed the law is too sweeping and violates the Second Amendment, while anti-gun advocates frame the dispute as a matter of private property rights.

Gun rights advocates view the law as an attempt to outlaw public concealed carry

The Supreme Court’s landmark June 2022 decision in New York Rifle & Pistol