“The Second Amendment has the same meaning in all parts of the United States,” Alito wrote. “It cannot give way to ‘the spirit of Aloha’ in Hawaii.”

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Writing that “merely local attitudes can neither shrink nor inflate the meaning of fundamental Bill of Rights guarantees that apply to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment,” Alito said early state laws around guns centered on hunting game on someone else’s private property.

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“Those laws had little if any impact on the Second Amendment’s central objective of protecting the fundamental right to self-defense, and their obvious aim was to prevent the distinctive harms and risks associated with unauthorized hunting,” he wrote. “The gap between the state’s anti-poaching analogues and its new rule is too wide.”

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The majority sided with Second Amendment group the Hawaii Firearms Coalition and three residents in Maui, Hawaii.

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A lower court judge originally blocked the measure, but an appeals court allowed it to be enforced.

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3 Justices Dissent

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In a dissenting opinion issued by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Jackson argued that the case isn’t about Second Amendment rights, but turned on the fact that there is no constitutional right to enter private property without the owner’s permission.

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“So the question this case presents is merely how a property owner must communicate his decision to exclude or to invite armed carry, including whether a State may alter the background property-law rules that set the default as one or the other,” Jackson wrote. “The Second Amendment has nothing to say about that. Petitioners’ constitutional rights are thus not implicated here, and their claim should meet its end at Bruen’s first step.”

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