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HI: Lieutenant Governor Doug Chin announces his request for legal opinion regarding gun law
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Lieutenant Governor Doug Chin announced Friday that he’s requesting a legal opinion from the State Attorney General to clarify the authority of county police chiefs to issue licenses permitting individuals to carry unconcealed firearms.
“I care deeply about public safety and it’s very important that we uphold Hawai‘i firearm laws for everyone’s benefit, ” Lt. Governor Chin said.
In July 2018 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with a Big Island resident that the Second Amendment affords the right to openly carry a gun in public for self-defense. |
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Smell mah shorts.
The federal appellate court's opinion trumps the state atty general's opinion. This is a waste of time intended to grab political headlines in the socialist belief that a plebiscite can overcome any constitutional guarantee. It doesn't matter if even 99% of Hawaiians want a total ban on publicly bearing arms because the Constitution protects that right, black letter.
The court has ruled, and even if an en banc 9th Circuit reverts to its ridiculous shenaningans, the likelihood of it succeeding at the SCOTUS is overwhelming. (Kavanaugh will be there before Oct. 1st.)
Accept defeat and move on. Oh, and repent your unconstitutional ways while you're at it. (You friggin' leftist PIGS, you.) |
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| "Some people think that the Second Amendment is an outdated relic of an earlier time. Doubtless some also think that constitutional protections of other rights are outdated relics of earlier times. We The People own those rights regardless, unless and until We The People repeal them. For those who believe it to be outdated, the Second Amendment provides a good test of whether their allegiance is really to the Constitution of the United States, or only to their preferences in public policies and audiences. The Constitution is law, not vague aspirations, and we are obligated to protect, defend, and apply it. If the Second Amendment were truly an outdated relic, the Constitution provides a method for repeal. The Constitution does not furnish the federal courts with an eraser." --9th Circuit Court Judge Andrew Kleinfeld, dissenting opinion in which the court refused to rehear the case while citing deeply flawed anti-Second Amendment nonsense (Nordyke v. King; opinion filed April 5, 2004) |
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