Blue states, gun control groups pile on to overturn open carry legal win

By Chris Eger

A coalition of states and anti-gun organizations are working together to have pro-gun victory overturned and retried by the court.
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’s 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 public unless they can demonstrate an individualized need to do so– an ability largely reserved for armed security officers and not the general gun-owning public.
“States have every right under the Constitution to look at the available data and make the tough calls about how to protect their residents from the spread of gun violence,” said Grewal, a recent appointment of New Jersey’s Democratic

Source: Guns.com