After Bruen, states that historically favored greater restrictions on guns rewrote their laws to accommodate the Supreme Court’s ruling. Among those states was Hawaii. One of its changes was to the state’s “default rule” for trespassing. Before Bruen, it was lawful to bring a concealed weapon onto private property that is generally open to the […]
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The Bruen test “imposes on judges the unfamiliar and difficult tasks of sifting through centuries-old evidence in order to answer ‘contested historical questions,’ and ‘applying those answers to resolve contemporary problems,’” Jackson wrote, quoting from her predecessor Stephen Breyer’s dissent in Bruen. “Given those challenges, it is unsurprising that Bruen’s test is vulnerable to inconsistent […]
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