DOJ Supports Challenge to Hawaii Public-Carry Gun Restrictions at Supreme Court

Three Hawaii residents and a gun rights group are challenging the state law, which they say violates the Second Amendment.

Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington on Nov. 19, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is supporting a challenge that seeks to strike down a Hawaii law that restricts the public carrying of firearms in the state, in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.

“Hawaii’s law plainly violates the Second Amendment,” U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in a Nov. 24 post on X.