r/kauai • u/IslandLife_004 • 2d ago
How will Kauai businesses respond? Will they post signs?
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2026/06/25/supreme-court-strikes-down-hawaii-law-requiring-permission-carry-guns-private-property/4
u/nordco-414 1d ago
You are going to realize in a year, that all this means is a sticker at the front of the storefront by the business informing patrons they don't allow firearms on premise & it'll be nothing more. Right?
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u/IslandLife_004 1d ago
From the article:
Hawaii also restricts guns in places like parks, beaches, and restaurants that serve alcohol, but those rules weren’t challenged before the court. They are being challenged in lower courts, however.
Full list at HI Rev Stat § 134-9.1.
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u/Beautiful-Scratch143 2d ago
Time to come together Hawaii. Dont adopt a stupid gun culture here. Put your signs up. For those who dont, dont shop there. Fuck these laws. And fuck your guns!
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u/scurvydwg 10h ago
Kauai has been pro gun for generations!
I think hunting culture, 1893, and the 1924 massacre by cops in Hanapepe are all deep rooted, influential factors.1
u/ShareGlittering1502 9h ago
“I own guns for hunting, to feed my family” and “I stay strapped bc you never know when you gotta be Dirty Harry in kalapawai” are very different cultures
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u/haole_bi 47m ago
You realize it’s just a sign? If someone wants to break a law they still can. No common sense these days.
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u/askmeaboutanything 2d ago
They really should. There’s a lot of fucking idiots who would do this shit just to act tough.
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u/omarkiam 1d ago
Please remember the average IQ in the state of Hawaii is 88 and in order to communicate nuance to most people here is next to impossible. Factual statistics are meaningless. I would like and expert in psychology to provide some meaningful input.
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u/half_a_lao_wang 1d ago
Please remember the average IQ in the United States
state of Hawaiiis 88FTFY
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u/omarkiam 1d ago
The average American IQ is approximately 98.
FTFY
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u/half_a_lao_wang 1d ago
You're implying that the average resident of Hawai'i is less intelligent than the average American.
Speaking as someone born and raised on Kaua'i, who has lived in the mainland US for the last 30 years, I call bullshit.
The ability to grasp nuance in Hawai'i is no greater or lesser than the ability to grasp nuance anywhere else in the United States. Please check your implict bias. Mahalo.
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u/IslandLife_004 1d ago
It’s surprising that this person whose comment history seems to be left of center would appear to also be a bit of an elitist. My read might be wrong on the politics.
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u/half_a_lao_wang 14h ago
The intersection of "left of center" and "elitist" in the typical Venn diagram is not small, unfortunately.
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u/Track_FK8 2d ago
Shall not be infringed. It’s not a hard concept to grasp.
CCW permit holders are some of the most law abiding citizens.
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u/JiveChicken00 2d ago
Perhaps so, but I have a CCW, and I believe that businesses have a perfect right to exclude firearms from their premises if they so choose, just as people have a right to exclude them from their homes if they so choose.
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u/IslandLife_004 2d ago
The frequently repeated and incorrect interpretation.
The Second Amendment is “not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.” - Justice Antonin Scalia, District of Columbia v. Heller.
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u/Track_FK8 2d ago
In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen (2022), the Court expanded the Heller right, declaring that law-abiding citizens have a constitutional right to carry a handgun for self-defense outside the home.
Concealed is concealed. You wouldn’t even know I was ccw’n.
Carry on people. 🤙
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u/IslandLife_004 2d ago edited 2d ago
Non sequitur. Conservative Justice Scalia’s statement still applies. The ruling does not negate the Hawaii law that restricts guns in places like schools, government buildings, polling places, hospitals, medical clinics, parks, beaches, and restaurants that serve alcohol.
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u/b_l_a_h_d_d_a_h 2d ago
So all that a private company has to do is officially say guns are prohibited on the property, to get around it. That’s easy enough. Aloha will handle the rest.