The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, often regarded as the country’s most liberal, ruled that you have the right to open carry a firearm in public (TheBlaze).
A partial panel issued the 2-1 ruling in the case of Young v. Hawaii, determining that George Young’s constitutional rights were violated when Hawaii officials denied him a permit to carry his weapon openly in public for self defense.
A lower court had previously ruled that the Second Amendment only applied to guns in the home.
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According to the decision, the state tried to deny Young an open carry permit by enforcing a limitation of open carry to those “engaged in the protection of life and property,” which the court rejected.
“The panel stated that once identified as an individual right focused on self-defense, the right to bear arms must guarantee some right to self-defense in public,” the decision read. “… The panel concluded that Hawaii’s limitation on the open carry of firearms to those ‘engaged in the protection of life and property’ violated the core of the Second Amendment and was void under any level of scrutiny.”
Law professors commented that this ruling could force deep-blue states – including California and Hawaii – to allow more guns in public.
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