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CO: Colo. High Court Recognizes Self-Defense Public Policy Exception to At-Will Employment
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On June 15, 2026, the Colorado Supreme Court held that employees may bring wrongful termination claims if they are discharged for actions lawfully taken in self-defense—even if their employers’ policies prohibit confrontations—because the right to self-defense “is not left at the door simply because a person enters the workplace.”
Answering a certified question from the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, the Colorado Supreme Court issued a landmark 5–2 ruling, holding that the right to self-defense, as expressed by both statute and the Colorado Constitution, supports a public-policy exception to the doctrine of at-will employment. |
HI: Supreme Court strikes down Hawaii law regulating firearms possession
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A divided Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a law in Hawaii that prohibited a person with a concealed carry permit from bringing a handgun onto private property open to the public without the property owner’s consent.
In Wolford v. Lopez, Justice Samuel Alito in a 6-3 decision held that the law violated the Second and 14th Amendments. Alito said the current state law, adopted after the Court decided New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen in 2022, posed several problems.
Ed.: You still need consent; this just returns to the standard rule of presumed consent, unless the property owner rebuts that presumption, such as orally or with a 'no guns' sign. |
IL: Pregnant teen stabs alleged attacker in act of self-defense: Sangamon Co. Sheriff’s Office
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An 18-year-old from Springfield was arrested after he allegedly battered a pregnant teenager. According to the sheriff's office, she stabbed him in self-defense, and then both teens were taken to the hospital.
Officials with the Sangamon County Sheriff's Office said that on June 19, deputies responded to an apartment complex in the 3200 block of South Douglas Avenue for a reported stabbing. Once on the scene just before 11:30 a.m., first responders found 18-year-old Marcello Scott nearby with a non-life-threatening injury to the chest. First responders provided aid, and Scott was taken to the hospital. |
SCOTUS Overturns Hawaii's Default Rule Against Guns on Private Property Open to the Public
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After the Supreme Court upheld the right to bear arms in the 2022 case New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, several states made it easier to obtain carry permits but much harder to use them. Even as they eliminated requirements that applicants demonstrate a "special need" to carry guns in public for self-defense, they banned firearms from long lists of "sensitive" locations. On Thursday, the Supreme Court rejected a variation on that theme: Hawaii's default rule against guns on private property open to the public. |
HI: 2A Victory: Supreme Court Strikes Down Hawaii's Default Carry Ban
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For the second week in a row, the U.S. Supreme Court has handed a victory to gun owners after striking down Hawaii's so-called "Vampire Rule" in Wolford v Lopez.
Last year, the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to strike the law down. The Hawaii law, similar to statutes found in California, New York and other states, bans carry of firearms on property open to the public – grocery stores, restaurants, gas stations and more – unless the owner posts a sign stating that carry is allowed on the premises. Prior laws permitted lawful carry in businesses open to the public unless the owner affirmatively requested that guns not be carried. |
U.S. Supreme Court Drives Final Stake Through "Vampire Rule" Gun Carry Ban in Second Amendment Decision
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Consistent with FPC's victories against "vampire rule" laws in multiple states, the United States Supreme Court today issued a major 6-to-3 decision in Wolford v. Lopez holding that Hawaii cannot presume that peaceable carry is forbidden on private property held open to the public unless the owner first gives express permission. In the decision, the Court held that this reversal of the longstanding common-law default unconstitutionally infringes upon the exercise of the right to bear arms and violates the Second and Fourteenth Amendments. |
Supreme Court Expands Gun Rights, Strikes Down Hawaii Law
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The 6-3 decision from the conservative-majority court deemed Hawaii's law unconstitutional, stating it infringed on the Second Amendment rights to "keep and bear arms." Justice Samuel Alito delivered the majority opinion, declaring that requiring property owners' "express authorization" for bringing guns onto their property hindered the constitutional protections for Americans seeking self-defense.
The ruling, which overturned a lower court’s decision, may influence similar laws across several states, escalating the fragmented national discourse on gun control and firearms violence. Dissenting liberal justices, led by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, expressed concerns about the judiciary prioritizing gun access over legislative intent. |
The Philippines: Is a gun owner liable if someone else uses their weapon in a crime?
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Meanwhile, the PNP has promised to file charges against the owners of the firearms used in the shooting incident.
“With all the pieces of evidence available, I expect a solid case that can stand in court. Let this serve as a warning to all registered gun owners on the responsibility – and accountability – that comes with the privilege of owning firearms,” said PNP chief Police General Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr.
NAPOLCOM also said it will conduct a motu proprio investigation to determine the possible administrative liability of the police officer who allegedly owns one of the firearms used in the incident. |
Supreme Court Strikes Down Hawaii’s ‘Vampire Rule’ in Major Second Amendment Win
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The Supreme Court just delivered a major Second Amendment win and sent a blunt warning to Hawaii, New York, California, New Jersey, Maryland, and every other anti-gun state trying to dodge Bruen.
In Wolford v. Lopez, the Court struck down Hawaii’s so-called “Vampire Rule,” holding that the state violated the Second and Fourteenth Amendments by banning licensed concealed carry on private property open to the public unless the owner gave express permission. |
SCOTUS Rules Hawaii’s ‘Vampire Rule’ Restricting Concealed Carry Is ‘Unconstitutional’
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In a major win for gun owners, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Hawaii’s restrictions on concealed-carry permit holders violate the Second and 14th Amendments. The decision was 6-3, with Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson in the dissent.
Known as Wolford v. Lopez, the case stems from a 2023 legal challenge against Hawaii’s “vampire rule” restricting citizens with concealed carry permits from carrying on private property open to the public unless they received explicit authorization to do so from the property owner, manager, or lessee. The plaintiffs argued that the law infringed their Second Amendment rights. |
Ketanji Brown Jackson melts down over SCOTUS ruling against Hawaii gun law: 'The court's objective is protecting guns'
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While recognizing the right of establishments that are open to the public "to admit or exclude persons who are carrying guns for self-defense under either the common-law rule or Hawaii’s law," the court noted that the so-called vampire law "flips the default rule at common law, under which anyone has an implied license to enter property held open to the public unless the property owner withdraws consent."
Justice Samuel Alito noted in the opinion that the "regime" established in Hawaii "hobbles what the Second Amendment protects: the right of Americans to carry arms for self-defense as they go about their daily lives." |
Supreme Court Just Handed Down Another Second Amendment Win
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It was a huge day for Second Amendment rights as the Supreme Court ruled in Wolford v. Lopez that concealed carry permit holders cannot be barred on private property. Hawaii is one of the most anti-gun states in the country, and obtaining a permit is already a herculean task. This law essentially gutted the purpose of a carry permit, and the Court remedied that in a 6-3 decision. Under the old law, a carry permit holder would've been required to ask permission to enter a grocery store if he or she was carrying, for example. It was madness. |
Dubai: British influencer faces possible execution in Dubai after allegedly stabbing man to death, claiming self-defense, advocacy group says
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"This case raises serious concerns about violence against women, the right to self defence, due process and the treatment of British nationals detained overseas," Detained in Dubai CEO Radha Stirling said in the statement.
The group is pushing for George to receive a fair trial, and it says she should be released on bail pending the investigation.
Stirling said that in recent years, increasing numbers of women, including influencers, models and travelers, have been "lured to Dubai with promises of luxury lifestyles, paid work, holidays or romantic relationships, only to later allege that they were subjected to …sexual exploitation, coercion, violence or other degrading treatment." |
HI: Supreme Court strikes down Hawaii gun restriction
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The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a Hawaii law that makes it a crime for gun owners to bring their guns onto private property that is open to the public unless they have the property owner’s specific consent. In Wolford v. Lopez, by a vote of 6-3, the justices agreed with a group of Maui residents with concealed-carry permits that the law violates the Second Amendment’s guarantee of the right to bear arms.
Thursday’s decision will have an impact not only in Hawaii, but also in four other states – California, Maryland, New York, and New Jersey – with similar laws. |
NC: Greenville shooting ruled self-defense, police say
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A shooting last week in a Greenville neighborhood has been ruled self-defense.
Greenville police say no one is facing charges in the June 16th shooting on Hunley Court.
According to police, officers were called around 6:15 a.m. last Tuesday and found a 26-year-old man in a truck who had been shot in the chest. Police believe he was trying to drive himself to the hospital. |
Guns, Property Rights, and the Second Amendment
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Part of the debate between the majority and dissent focuses on the notorious Black Codes enacted by southern states after the Civil War, for the purpose of oppressing recently freed slaves and other Blacks, which in this case included restrictions on carrying guns, so as to disarm Black people and render them more vulnerable to coercion by whites. Hawaii and Justice Jackson argue that these laws are appropriate analogues to the current Hawaii law, thereby justifying the latter.
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OK: Drummond lauds Supreme Court ruling on Second Amendment rights
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Attorney General Gentner Drummond lauded the United States Supreme Court’s decision today to strike down Hawaii’s prohibition of firearms on private property that is open to the public. The court voted 6-3, siding with a group of gun owners in Wolford v. Lopez to lift the restriction for places such as gas stations, restaurants and shopping malls.
“This decision rightly upholds our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms,” Drummond said. “Hawaii’s law, which required gun permit holders to seek permission to defend themselves, never should have been allowed to stand.” |
The Supreme Court’s New Expansion of the Second Amendment Is Genuinely Deranged
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The Supreme Court’s 6–3 decision in Wolford v. Lopez on Thursday confirms our worst fears about the supermajority’s Second Amendment jurisprudence: It is a freewheeling policy project utterly unmoored from history that allows the Republican-appointed justices to implement their preferred gun laws under the thin guise of judicial review. These justices struck down Hawaiʻi’s law restricting guns on private property not because the Constitution required them; to the contrary, the state proved beyond doubt that its statute was deeply rooted in history and tradition. Rather, the supermajority killed the law because it was offended that Hawaiʻi would dare try to mitigate the violence that SCOTUS has unleashed ... |
Supreme court strikes down restrictive Hawaii gun law in major second amendment decision
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Gun control advocates recoiled at the decision.
“I will not mince words: this deeply dangerous majority opinion privileges guns over everything and all people in society,” said Kris Brown, president of gun control advocacy group Brady. “It is eminently reasonable that visitors receive property owners’ permission to bring firearms on to their private property open to the public.
“Yet the court has manipulated a legal test of their own design to launch this attack on public safety and our freedom from gun violence. What’s more, they are thwarting the will of the people and the legislature.” |
The Supreme Court Is a Pro-Gun Activist Group
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As Jackson pointed out in dissent, if this logic—that historical restrictions on gun possession are irrelevant if they relate (in Alito’s opinion) too closely to shooting deer—is enough to strike down gun safety laws, the Court has made it impossible for legislatures to enact gun safety laws ever again. Under Wolford, she wrote, a judge “can always choose to invalidate a modern regulation, so long as the judge points to some distinction between the modern regulation and the historical examples,” no matter “how small or irrelevant” that difference may be. |
From the Courthouse Steps: Wolford v. Lopez
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In Wolford v. Lopez, the Supreme Court held that Hawaii’s law prohibiting licensed concealed-carry permit holders from carrying handguns on private property open to the public without the property owner’s express authorization violates the Second and Fourteenth Amendments. In a 6-3 decision, the majority reasoned that the restrictions fell within the plain text of the Second Amendment and that Hawaii’s proffered historical analogues did not support the constitutionality of its new default rule.
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CA: DOJ warns California over ‘Glock Ban’
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday warned California that its “Glock ban” violates the Second Amendment and shared plans to file a federal complaint against the Golden State in court if officials do not cease enforcement of the law.
“Californians have the constitutional right to acquire and use state-of-the-art handguns to protect themselves,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon wrote in a Wednesday letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.).
“They should not be forced to settle for decade-old models of handguns to ensure that they remain safe inside or outside the home,” she added. |
Supreme Court bars 'vampire rules' on gun ownership
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In most states, gun owners can bring firearms onto private property, unless the property owner tells them otherwise. But five states—Hawaii, California, Maryland, New York, and New Jersey—have passed laws that require gun owners to get permission in advance.
These regulations are sometimes called "vampire laws," so named from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Dracula, where the Count "may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come."
Justice Samuel Alito, writing for a conservative supermajority, drove a stake through the laws by deciding that they "hobble[s] what the Second Amendment protects: the right of Americans to carry arms for self-defense as they go about their daily lives." |
VA: Virginia judge blocks assault weapons ban six days before implementation
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A judge in rural Virginia sided with gun rights activists Thursday, barring state police from enforcing an assault weapons ban set to take effect July 1.
Lancaster County Circuit Judge John Martin issued the preliminary injunction from his bench in favor of Gun Owners of America, the Virginia Citizens Defense League and resident John Crump, finding the commonwealth unlikely to succeed in arguing the impending law doesn’t run afoul of the state’s constitution. |
VA: No So Fast: Court Freezes Virginia 'Assault Weapon' Ban Just Before it Takes Effect
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A group of Second Amendment activists on Thursday secured a temporary injunction that blocks Virginia's arbitrary new ban on popular semi-auto firearms and their magazines.
In the case of Crump v. Katz, Lancaster County Circuit Judge John Martin issued an injunction against the Virginia State Police from taking steps to implement or enforce Virginia’s new “assault firearm” ban and 15-round magazine capacity limitation (SB749) as well as a carry prohibition (SB727). The case, brought by John Crump along with Gun Owners of America and the Virginia Citizens Defense League, argued the pending laws, set to take effect on July 1, violate the state's 1791 constitution. |
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