WASHINGTON, June 25 (DC Times Online) — The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington struck down Hawaii’s rule requiring concealed-carry permit holders to get a property owner’s permission before entering certain privately owned places open to the public, ruling 6-3 that the law violated the Second Amendment.
Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority in Wolford v. Lopez and said Hawaii’s law “violates the constitutional right to keep and bear arms.” The decision invalidates what critics had called the state’s “vampire rule.”
Alito also wrote that the law “hobble[s] what the Second Amendment protects: the right of Americans to carry arms for self-defense as they go about their daily lives,” according to reporting on the opinion.
NBC News reported that three liberal justices dissented. The ruling adds to the Supreme Court’s recent Second Amendment decisions, including its 2008 ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller, which struck down Washington, D.C.’s handgun ban.
