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The Supreme Court struck down Hawaii's firearms law Thursday in a 6-3 decision in Wolford v.
Lopez, ruling that states cannot compel private businesses open to the public to serve as gun-free zones and shifting that burden from legislatures to business owners themselves.
The ruling is forcing gun-control advocates and state lawmakers to reassess which restrictions the current court will allow to stand.
A Test Case Designed to Win — and Lost Hawaii had crafted its law specifically to survive the court's constitutional standard, which requires that modern gun restrictions fit within the nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation.
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