The Second Amendment is not a suggestion, not a privilege, and not a right that evaporates when lawmakers grow uncomfortable with armed citizens.
As the Supreme Court prepares to hear Wolford v. Lopez, No. 24-1046, this case is about far more than Hawaii’s so-called “Vampire Rule.” It is about whether states—and the federal courts that enable them—may openly defy Supreme Court precedent while pretending to follow it.
Gun owners have seen this playbook before. Legislatures lose at the Supreme Court, panic, and then repurpose the same unconstitutional scheme with new labels, daring the courts to stop them. Hawaii simply said the quiet part out loud.
By Sean Maloney

