The U.S. Supreme Court this week begins a new term of hearings and rulings — though with the flurry of terse emergency rulings that have rained down over the summer months, it doesn’t seem the high court justices had a break.

On the list for a decision this term is a Hawaii-based gun case, one in which this state is rightly asserting its authority to maintain much of its strict regulatory regime.

The issues originally stem from a 2017 suit filed on Maui by Christopher Wilson, a man who carried a loaded pistol in his waistband and was prosecuted when he crossed into private property. He challenged the prosecution, arguing that it violated his Second Amendment rights to carry a gun for self-defense.

The high court announced on Friday that it would review Hawaii’s restriction of where gun

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