Second Amendment Roundup: In Wolford, Hawaii relies on the Black Codes

I have filed an amicus curiae brief in Wolford v. Lopez, which is pending in the Supreme Court, on behalf of the National African American Gun Association. As explained in my previous post, the issue is whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that Hawaii may prohibit the carrying of handguns by permit holders on private property open to the public unless the property owner affirmatively gives express permission.

Hawaii enacted this ban in defiance of the Supreme Court's ruling in Bruen that the Second Amendment protects the right to bear arms in public. The Ninth Circuit upheld the ban under Bruen based on the existence of two purported historical analogues, one of which was an 1865 Louisiana law. I've written extensively on the black codes in Securing Civil Rights: Freedmen, the Fourt