Hawaii doesn’t think the Constitution applies to it for some reason

Published February 9, 2024 9:44am ET



Hawaii shocked the nation with perhaps the most incompetently cobbled-together justification in history for violating the Constitution

On Wednesday, the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled in State v. Wilson that citizen and firearm user Christopher Wilson had violated state laws by publicly carrying a gun without a state permit. It stated that while the state justices acknowledged that both its constitutions’ interpretations of the Second Amendment are the same, they just chose to ignore it: 

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