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Posted on 08/29/2022 7:41:20 AM PDT by marktwain
Hawaii has had the most restrictive policy of all states regarding the issuing permits to carry in public, either concealed or openly. In the last few decades, the number of permits issued has been in the single digits.
Hawaii has among the strictest gun laws in the nation. So strict, said attorney Alan Beck, that Hawaii essentially bans carrying guns outside the home. It has been practically impossible to get a permit to carry a loaded gun in public, he said. In the past 22 years, there have been four permits issued in Hawaii, said Beck, who represents various residents challenging Hawaii gun laws.
Hawaii’s Attorney General has issued a formal legal opinion, in the form of a letter, clarifying the response to the Bruen decision by Holly T. Shikada, the Attorney General of Hawaii.
We advise that as to applications for concealed carry licenses, the chiefs of police should no longer require that an applicant “[i]n an exceptional case . . show[] reason to fear injury to the applicant’s person or property” in order to obtain a concealed carry license. HRS§ 134-9(a). The chiefs of police should continue to enforce all other statutory requirements for obtaining a concealed carry license, except for the citizenship requirement as applied to lawful permanent residents and U.S. nationals.
Thus, the Hawaii AG interprets Bruen as narrowly as possible. She specifically states that Bruen does not apply to open carry, characterized as “unconcealed carry licenses”:
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> In the past 22 years, there have been four permits issued in Hawaii ... <
What about retired Hawaiian cops? They usually get a free ride while the average citizen has to jump through ten different hoops.
“In the past 22 years, there have been four permits issued in Hawaii”
Disparate Outcome
If this was the result for any other group, the DeFacto discrimination and trashing of 2nd Amndt would be plain as day. But it’s for “Public Safety”, doncha now?
Remember, DemocRat Bull Connor was only blocking the door to keep schools safe.
Someone need to just carry unconcealed on Hawaii for the sole purpose of being sighted and then taken to court.
You do not need the states permission to exercise your constitutional right.
Permits for open carry are unconstitutional
Retired police can likely get permits to carry under LEOSA. Retired officers are allowed carry nationwide.
Be nice if it were so easy.
George Young has been fighting for his right to carry for a decade now, in the courts.
I do not understand your unwavering faith in the courts.
Until the elected officials are held in Contempt for blatantly defying SCOTUS nothing will change.
Toss a few of them into jail until they pass laws complying with the Courts and this will change. We’re in the attorney for one of the Plaintiffs I’d ask for that with every single motion I filed.
Let the Judge decline but get it into the record.
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“cited”
Who were the four Democrat politicians who were issued permits?
At one point, I have been told, the manager of the privately owned Island of Ni'ihau had a permit.
States have to allow carry, it can be concealed or open (it does not have to be both) but they have to allow carry.
Not so easy in Florida. There are restrictions.
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