A Historic Victory for the Second Amendment in Hawaii
Today is a historic day for the people of Hawaii and for everyone who believes the Constitution applies equally in every state.
The Hawaii Firearms Coalition is proud to have been a named plaintiff in the case that resulted in today’s landmark United States Supreme Court decision striking down Hawaii’s unconstitutional “default no-carry” law for private property open to the public.
This lawsuit was never about forcing firearms onto private property against an owner’s wishes. Property owners have always had—and will continue to have—the absolute right to decide whether firearms are allowed on their property.
This case was about something much different.
Hawaii attempted to reverse more than two centuries of American legal tradition by making it a crime for licensed concealed carry holders to enter virtually any business or private property open to the public unless the owner first gave express permission. Instead of allowing individual property owners to make that decision for themselves, the State imposed a blanket prohibition and turned nearly every business in Hawaii into a government-created gun-free zone by default.
Today, the Supreme Court held that the Constitution does not permit Hawaii to do that.
The Court reaffirmed that the Second Amendment protects the right of law-abiding citizens to bear arms for self-defense and that states cannot evade that right simply by rewriting property law defaults. Applying the historical test established in Bruen, the Court concluded that Hawaii failed to identify any historical tradition that justified its sweeping restriction.
Perhaps one of the most powerful moments in the opinion came when the Court rejected Hawaii’s argument that its unique culture justified a different constitutional rule:
“The Second Amendment cannot give way to the spirit of Aloha in Hawaii any more than it can yield to the spirit of the Big Apple or the Windy City.”
That statement sends a clear message: constitutional rights do not stop at Hawaii’s shoreline.
The Court also rejected Hawaii’s reliance on colonial hunting laws, an isolated Oregon statute, and even an 1865 Louisiana Black Code that was enacted to disarm newly freed slaves. The Court concluded that none of these laws established the historical tradition required to justify Hawaii’s restrictions.
This victory belongs to every law-abiding firearm owner in Hawaii who stood firm while the State continued to test the limits of the Constitution.
We want to express our sincere gratitude to our outstanding legal team. Alan Beck and Kevin O’Grady dedicated countless hours to defending the constitutional rights of Hawaii’s citizens and presented a compelling case before the highest court in the nation. Their commitment and perseverance made today’s victory possible. We also thank our fellow plaintiffs, Jason and Alison Wolford, and Atom Kasprzycki, whose willingness to stand up for their rights helped bring this case all the way to the Supreme Court. (Supreme Court)
Today’s decision restores the traditional rule that has existed throughout most of our nation’s history: the decision whether to allow firearms on private property belongs to the property owner—not the government. Businesses remain free to prohibit firearms if they choose, but that decision must be theirs, not one imposed by the State of Hawaii.
While today’s victory is significant, our work is not finished.
The Hawaii Firearms Coalition will continue monitoring Hawaii’s implementation of this decision and will remain vigilant against any attempt to undermine or circumvent the constitutional protections reaffirmed today.
Big problems in Hawaii's Cast Vote Records. I obtained the CRV's of the Nov. 5th 2024 election. Jeff O'Donnell
@FSociety_1942 ran them - thank you! Surprise ending.
A Cast Vote Record (CVR) is generated when a ballot is scanned and accepted by a tabulator.
An example of a Cast Vote Record is shown in the gray image below (from the 2022 Hawaii election). It's from a HART Civic voting system, the State uses that vendor.
Our team is conducting an audit for the Hawaii elections. The CRVs can be used to find patterns, including anomalies.
See the chart image: the Teal line is the cumulative percentage for Trump/Vance as CVRs are added over the election.
The Red upper and lower bands are expected statistical bounds (confidence limits) for what the cumulative percentage should look like if votes are arriving in a roughly random order.
But Hawaii has a very big problem, given all the ballots for Trump/Vance have been counted of course, the result should be between these two red lines.
You may see swings very early in the process, that’s normal where small denominators cause volatility.
But the chart is screaming something is wrong. The teal line dips mid-stream, then steadily rises late in the count, eventually approaching the upper bound.
Meaning: later CVRs disproportionately favored Trump/Vance compared to earlier ones. Its diagnostic.
Here is the gold: it is telling us the ballots were scanned in non-random, structured blocks, and those blocks had systematically different vote compositions.
Chief Election Officer Scott Nago, Ofc of Elections Attorney Aaron Schulaner and 4 County Clerks this is not good.....someone is lying by omission. The Teal line should be within the red bands (over time).
Ballot categories with different partisan characteristics were tabulated in a strongly ordered way, not randomly interleaved.
Later-processed ballots were materially different from earlier ones. It shows human control, not randomness one would expect. Why Mr. Nago, Schulaner?
Oh, and there is more coming. Funny
@AudittheVoteHI didn't do all this work and publish it, for free.
Also funny CBS news or these others didn't investigate and publish this news: @HawaiiFive0CBS@HawaiiNewsNow@HawaiiNews @SpectrumNewsHawaii @AllNewsHawaii
@hawaiipulsenews Wait until I report that Hawaii elections are stealing Democrat offices from other Democrats, by Democrats, from Democrats. I chuckle about that every day.
Funnier: the last Hawaii Election Commissioner who quit abruptly and recently - Claire McAdams - is an auditor by profession for the Governor. @DrJoshGreen
Got your checkbook out Governor? You owe the federal govt. $30 million because of Scott Nago and Attorney Aaron Schulaner. Washington DC investigation opened!
@DNIGabbard@TulsiGabbard@ParikhClay@FBI@FBIHonolulu@ODNIgov@dogeinhawaii@HawaiiFreePress@HarmeetKDhillon@EagleEdMartin
@TheUsefulTool@Kekius_Sage I know bioluminescence is a real thing.
I’m not sure how much we should be tinkering with nature like that?
https://t.co/Os3Q4vmGiO