Anti-Gun States, Gun Grabber Groups Band Together To Fight Pro-Gun Decision

By Tom Knighton

When the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Hawaii’s ban on open carry, it sparked a firestorm. In one fell swoop, the most anti-gun court in the country overturned a gun control law, and an anti-gun state was forced to allow people to carry firearms openly when it would prefer they not carry at all.

Unsurprisingly, there’s a fight going on about this where anti-gun groups and anti-gun states are joining forces.

In July, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit said that Hawaii’s restrictions on the open carry of firearms in public were not in line with the Second Amendment. Since then, the state has flexed its legal muscles in an attempt to have the decision stricken and sent before a larger 11-judge en banc panel for a retrial. In the past week, a number of gun control groups and states have signed on to the lawsuit to help Hawaii keep its strict limits on the unconcealed carry of firearms in public.

New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal last Monday filed an amicus brief defending the constitutionality of Hawaii’s law that prevents individuals from carrying a firearm openly in …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms