According to this piece in the Star Advertiser, law-and-order AG Mark Bennett and leftish law professor Jon Van Dyke are in agreement that Hawaii's relatively intrusive gun laws don't run afoul of McDonald v. Chicago (PDF), yesterday's Supreme Court decision applying against the states via the 14th Amendment's due process clause the Second Amendment's right of individuals to "keep and bear arms."
I'm not so sure. There seems to me to be a great deal of uncertainly about the contours of the right and the states' powers to reasonably regulate the right that will be worked out in courts for the foreseeable future.
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