US Supreme Court avoids Hawaii legal fight over gun rights
Source: Reuters, via MSN
US Supreme Court avoids Hawaii legal fight over gun rights
By Andrew Chung
(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Monday a Hawaii man's bid to throw out criminal charges for carrying a pistol while hiking, as the justices declined to review a ruling by the liberal-leaning state's top court that denounced an expansion of gun rights by the nation's highest judicial body.
The man, Christopher Wilson, had appealed the Hawaii Supreme Court's decision to reinstate the charges against him after he was accused in 2017 of violating state laws restricting people from carrying firearms and ammunition outside the home without a license. The U.S. Supreme Court's action left that judicial ruling in place.
Wilson argued that the charges brought against him after he was arrested for carrying a .22-caliber handgun on private property in the West Maui mountains violated his rights under the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment, which protects the right to keep and bear arms.
Wilson also argued that his actions were not illegal under the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 2022 ruling in a case called New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen that recognized for the first time a person's right to carry a handgun in public for self defense. The U.S. Supreme Court has a 6-3 conservative majority.
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