Posted on 06/07/2023 4:44:59 AM PDT by marktwain
On July 25, 2022, Todd Yuktake and Justin Solomon filed a federal lawsuit against the Attorney General of Hawaii, Holly T. Shikada, for infringement of the right to keep and bear arms, specifically against the state of Hawaii’s ban on “billies” or “batons” outside the home. Billies were likely chosen, in part, because no procedure exists in Hawaii to allow the carry of short clubs outside the home. Over the course of the case, the AG changed from Shikada to Lopez. From the complaint:
6. The State of Hawai‘i generally bans the possession of “deadly or dangerous weapons” outside the possessor’s home without some prior authorization. Haw. Rev. Stat. § 134-51. The ban specifically includes “billies.”…
9. Plaintiffs are not “authorized by law” to carry a baton and no known procedure exists that would allow Plaintiffs or other law-abiding citizens to achieve such authorization.
The Court has held that “the Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding,” District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U. S. 570, 582 (2008), and that this “Second Amendment right is fully applicable to the States,” McDonald v.Chicago, 561 U. S. 742, 750 (2010). In this case, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts upheld a Massachusetts law prohibiting the possession of stun guns after examining “whether a stun gun is the type of weapon contemplated by Congress in 1789 as being protected by the Second Amendment.” 470 Mass. 774, 777, 26 N. E. 3d 688, 691 (2015).
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The headline made me think for a moment that the government wanted my sand and pitching wedges. Good to know they cannot take the clubs that I can actually hit with any consistency.
Better watch out for that baseball bat sitting in the corner behind the bedroom door.
Especially when the baseball bat is fully semiautomatic and has one of those extra high capacity magazine clips that liberals are always getting so bent out of shape about.
How about “saps”?
I feel like there’s an opportunity in swords as they come back into fashion....
I am so reminded of the Monty Python sketch on self defense against being attacked by raspberries.
My baseball bat has an attached chupacabra launcher. I suppose they’ll be coming for that, too. Sigh.
Saps !
Small, pocket size with a lead ball, leather wrapped spring handle
Marvelous. Would work well in crowd
I have one of those that I picked up decades ago, but I never carried it. I think it’s in a junk box somewhere.
...and sometimes 'she' identifies as an automatic hole-puncher...
That sounds amazing! Now I know what I want for Father’s Day.
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