Justice Alito: Hawaii’s Gun Control Relegates 2A to ‘Second-Class Status’

During Tuesday’s oral arguments in Wolford v. Lopez, Justice Samuel Alito contended that Hawaii’s gun control relegates the Second Amendment to “second-class status.”

SCOTUSBLOG quoted Alito telling a Hawaii attorney the state was “relegating the Second Amendment to second-class status.”

Roll Call noted that Chief Justice John Roberts spoke of the Second Amendment being treated as a “disfavored right” and Justice Brett Kavanaugh noted the lack of historical precedent for Hawaii’s gun control, saying, “Here there is no sufficient history supporting the regulation, end of case.”

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Breitbart News pointed out that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson contended that “Black Codes” offer precedent needed to justify Hawaiian gun controls, although she subsequently admitted said codes were “unconstitutional.”