In a move that has won widespread acclaim from conservatives, the DOJ, under AG Pam Bondi, filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting a Supreme Court challenge to Hawaii’s post-Bruen law, which criminalizes concealed carry on private, publicly accessible properties without explicit permission. According to the DOJ, this law is “blatantly unconstitutional” and an evasion of Second Amendment rights.
Describing why she is moving in that direction on gun rights, Bondi declared the law “plainly violates” the Constitution, vowing to protect “millions” in states like California and New York. Likewise, subject matter expert David Katz, speaking to Fox News Digital, called the blue state gun law that Bondi is acting against a common anti-gun tactic.
In any case, AG Bondi began her comments on the DOJ’s new defense of gun rights in America by remarking, “Hawaii’s law plainly violates the Second Amendment.” Building out her case, she noted, “The Second Amendment is not a second-class right.”
Concluding her comments, the AG made it clear that Hawaii was not the only state to use unconstitutional laws like this. “It’s not just Hawaii that is effectively banning public carry. California, Maryland, New Jersey, and New York have similar laws. So a win in this case will restore Second Amendment rights for millions of Americans,” Bondi explained.
The DOJ brief, in the Wolford v. Lopez case, blasted the biased blue state. “Hawaii’s restriction is blatantly unconstitutional as applied to private property open to the public,” the case brief noted, adding, “States cannot evade Bruen by banning public carry through indirect means.”
Offering another view on the issue, David Katz, the CEO of Global Security Group, made it clear that this law is a common problem in blue states. “They realized they couldn’t do anything about not providing concealed carry permits, so instead they just made it illegal to carry in certain areas. This is common to these anti-Second Amendment states,” Katz said.
Adding her own thoughts, NYC Councilwoman Inna Vernikov said, as Fox News Digital reported, “It’s time for states like New York to stop acting like isolated nations that can ignore our federal law and the Constitution. Every law-abiding citizen of this nation has the right to bear arms.”
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Hammering away at this woke law, she added, “Especially somewhere like New York, where Democrats in charge have enabled the worst kind of criminals to walk our streets, we must be able to arm ourselves for protection. I appreciate AG Pam Bondi and the DOJ for taking decisive action to protect our rights.”
Other legal experts flocked to social media to offer their reactions. “Pam Bondi is right that Hawaii’s consent-to-carry rule is on shaky ground after Bruen, especially because the historical record does not support a blanket prohibition on public carry unless a property owner opts in,” Mike Young noted.
Concluding his analysis, he wrote, “But calling DOJ’s intervention ‘unprecedented’ is a stretch. The department’s enthusiasm for the Second Amendment appears to rise and fall with the occupant of the White House, not with a consistent legal philosophy.”
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