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The veteran behind the challenge to Hawaii’s restrictive open-carry law plans to petition the Supreme Court to hear his case after losing in the Ninth Circuit, his lawyer told the Washington Free Beacon on Wednesday.
“We’re planning on filing for a writ of certiorari,” Alan Beck, the lawyer for native-Hawaiian veteran George Young, said. “We’re not letting this lie.”
Young argues Hawaii is effectively banning open carry in the state by refusing to issue any permits to civilians regardless of their background or skill level. A federal judge sided with him in 2018 and struck down the law, but on Wednesday the Ninth Circuit threw out his challenge in a 7-to-4 vote. The court said, in part, the Second Amendment does not extend to the open carry of guns.
“There is no right to carry arms openly in public; nor is any such right within the scope of the Second Amendment,” the majority said in the ruling.
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