Overview

• Justices granted review Friday and scheduled the case for argument in the new term that starts Monday, with a decision expected by June.
• Hawaii’s 2023 law flips the default by barring licensed carriers from bringing handguns onto private property open to the public without the owner’s express permission, and it designates beaches, parks and bars as sensitive places.
• Three permit holders — Jason and Alison Wolford and Atom Kasprzycki — and the Hawaii Firearms Coalition sued after a district judge blocked parts of the law, but the 9th Circuit largely upheld it.
• The Trump administration’s Justice Department filed a brief backing the challengers, arguing the consent rule arbitrarily treats firearms differently from other items allowed in stores.
• Similar owner-consent provisions exist in other states, and an East Coast appeals court struck down a comparable New York rule, a split the challengers urged the Court to resolve.