The Supreme Court in the State of Hawaii  upheld the state’s law prohibit carrying a firearm in public without a license.  On Wednesday, Justice Todd Eddins wrote an opinion on the ruling stating, “states retain the authority to require individuals have a license before carrying firearms in public.” not acknowledging the Second Amendment to the U.S. Consititution.  This was a unanimous 5-0 decision.

The decision came from three Democratic and two Republican-appointed judges, disagreeing with the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling on the Second Amendment’s right to keep and bear arms.  Their disagreement goes against the near-identical provision of the state’s constitution that currently reads, “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”  The court’s conclusion reversed a lower-court judge’s decision dismissing two charges filed against Christopher Wilson.  He was arrested for trespassing on private property with an unregistered pistol.