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YUKUTAKE V. LOPEZ (9th Cir. 2026) (en banc) involves provisions of Hawaii's law:
1. That requires those who meet their standards for firearms purchase to then buy the gun within 30 days or start all over again, and,
2. Bring the gun to a police station within five days after acquisition for inspection.
The en banc decision upheld both provisions, claiming that footnote 9 of Bruen makes any shall-issue law presumptively constitutional:
As detailed infra, Bruen instructs courts to engage in a two-step inquiry: First, does the Second Amendment’s plain text cover the plaintiff’s conduct? And second, if so, is the legislation at issue consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation? Id. at 24. Yet in a footnote, the Bruen Court included an apparent carve-out to this test: objective, non-abusive “shall-issue” licensing regimes are presumptively constitutional. Id. at 38 n.9.
As Judge Nelson's dissent observes:
But the majority incorrectly holds that footnote 9 of New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), creates a “carve-out” or “safe harbor” from Second Amendment scrutiny, and is thus analytically distinct from Bruen’s framework. Maj. Op. 13, 18. Footnote 9 does not say that all objective regulations placed within a “shall issue” licensing regime are “presumptively constitutional.” Id. at 13. It only addresses “public carry” regulations not at issue here. Bruen, 597 U.S. at 38 n.9. And it does not shift to the citizen the burden to prove that a law governing protected conduct has been “put toward abusive ends.” Maj. Op. 17 (cleaned up). That interpretation violates Bruen’s clear command that it is the government’s burden to show that restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms are “consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition.” 597 U.S. at 24.
Instead, footnote 9 described non-abusive regulations to ensure that only “law-abiding, responsible citizens” were carrying handguns outside the home, preserved challenges when a permitting system denies citizens their right to carry, and concerned only longstanding licensing regimes. Id. at 38 n.9 (citation omitted).
Hawaii’s challenged provisions are something else. Hawaii requires purchasers of handguns to obtain a handgun-acquisition permit that is void unless the permittee completes the purchase within 30 days, and it requires persons acquiring certain firearms to bring them to a police station for physical inspection within five days of acquisition. Haw. Rev. Stat. §§ 134-2(e), 134-3(c). Neither regulation has anything to do with determining whether applicants are “‘law-abiding, responsible citizens’” eligible for licenses to “exercis[e] their Second Amendment right to public carry.” Bruen, 597 U.S. at 38 n.9 (quoting District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570, 635 (2008)). Indeed, the challenged laws operate after the applicant has completed a background check, firearms training course, and myriad other requirements—i.e., after he has proven himself a “lawabiding, responsible citizen”—and has been issued a permit to purchase (not carry) a handgun. And neither regulation was “longstanding” in 2022 when Bruen issued.
Nelson goes on to point out these laws did not develop based on public concerns about safety but as part of a not very subtle attempt to ignore Bruen:
This case is all the worse since the challenged laws appear to be part of Hawaii’s consistent and not-so-subtle attempts to end run around the Second Amendment, which suggests that these laws are abusive under footnote 9. See, e.g., Young v. Hawaii, 45 F.4th 1087, 1090–94 (9th Cir. 2022) (en banc) (O’Scannlain, J., dissenting); Teter v. Lopez, 76 F.4th 938, 942–43, 947–49 (9th Cir. 2023), reh’g en banc granted, opinion vacated, 93 F.4th 1150 (9th Cir. 2024), vacated as moot on reh’g en banc, 125 F.4th 1301 (9th Cir. 2025); State v. Wilson, 543 P.3d 440, 442 (Haw. 2024), abrogated by Wolford v. Lopez, 146 S. Ct. 2032, 2050 (2026). Hawaii has only grown more intransigent in its “blatant defiance” of the Supreme Court’s clear commands on the Second Amendment. Wilson v. Hawaii, 145 S. Ct. 18, 21 (2024) (Statement of Thomas, J., respecting the denial of certiorari) (citation omitted); cf. Granillo v. State, 593 P.3d 1, 28 (Haw. 2026) (accusing the U.S. Supreme Court of “[m]aking the country more dangerous with a Second Amendment unmoored from text or history and unrecognizable to the framers who wrote it”); id. (Bruen was “deadly jurisprudence,” and Wolford “show[ed] disdain for Hawai‘i’s constitutional traditions.”). But Hawaii’s “[m]erely local attitudes can neither shrink nor inflate the meaning of fundamental Bill of Rights guarantees that apply to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment.” Wolford, 146 S. Ct. at 2050.
A correct application of Bruen to Hawaii’s regulations makes this case straightforward. First, the Second Amendment’s plain text covers the acquisition of arms. A person ordinarily cannot “keep” an arm without first acquiring it, and the law has long recognized that authorization of an act includes authorization of necessary predicate acts. Luis v. United States, 578 U.S. 5, 26 (2016) (Thomas, J., concurring in the judgment). Hawaii’s statewide restrictions govern the process by which ordinary citizens take possession of handguns; possession is the core conduct protected by the “right of the people to keep . . . Arms.” U.S. Const. amend. II (emphasis added). Second, Hawaii has not identified “a well-established and representative historical analogue” for either its short permit-use period or its acquisition-linked inspection mandate. Bruen, 597 U.S. at 30. Because Hawaii has not carried the burden Bruen places on the government, we should have affirmed the district court’s judgment. I respectfully dissent.
Oh and Judge Van Dyke's dissent is also powerful:
But in spite of the Court’s obvious efforts to instruct lower courts to enforce the Second Amendment, the Ninth Circuit has done precisely the opposite. That’s not a rhetorical statement: in this circuit, the Second Amendment safeguards less liberty now than it did in the wake of Heller.2 For Exhibit A on how things have changed in the wrong direction, look no further than the majority’s opening paragraph. The majority recalls that the district court “blocked the implementation of [Hawaii’s] firearm licensing regime on Second Amendment grounds” the year before Bruen was decided. Maj. Op. at 10. The legal basis for reversing that injunction, according to the majority, is the “guidance” that Bruen provided on “how courts should analyze ‘shall-issue’ regimes like Hawaii’s.” Id. I agree that Bruen changed the law. But if our court’s takeaway from Bruen is that Bruen changed the law to make it harder to mount a successful Second Amendment challenge, then somebody has seriously lost the plot.
Deputies with the Kanawha County Sheriff's Office said a person called 911 saying two men were having an argument when one of them shot the other in the leg.
The man with the gunshot wound left the scene but was later located by deputies and medics, deputies said, adding that they found the shooter still at the residence with injuries to his arms and chest. Deputies said the alleged shooter was the property owner.
During the investigation, detectives determined the man was breaking into a home when he was shot, Locklear said.
Godwin-Falcon Fire Rescue and Cumberland County EMS also responded. Emergency personnel requested a medical helicopter because of the severity of the man’s injuries, and firefighters established a landing zone at Falcon Children’s Home.
Police said the initial investigation shows a fight took place between the man and the 15-year-old at a home in the 5200 block of Reilly Street around 7:35 p.m.
"As a result of the altercation, the teenager was shot and died," police said.
Crime Insider sources told Jon Burkett that the family member is a Capitol Police officer and that the teen was his nephew. Sources say the officer claimed the shooting was done in self-defense.
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Surprisingly, I don't miss it at all when I take a dry week, which is exactly the point.
We did get a passing thunderstorm late this afternoon. We need the rain.
We look at the pros and cons of Maztech’s X4-FCS digital aiming system.
Our friend Lee Williams appears to have led a successful fight for justice, which prevailed in the form of a Presidential pardon a few days ago. Here’s the story word for word, from the Second Amendment Foundation: BELLEVUE, Wash. — Sept. 4, 2026 — In a closely watched and reported-on case by the Second Amendment […]The shooting happened around 3:45 p.m. Sept. 19 when a 25-year-old man had entered the restaurant to pick up a food delivery order when Harris followed him inside, despite not appearing to place or pick up an order himself. When the man left the restaurant, Harris followed him outside.
Outside surveillance footage showed Harris pushing the man and advancing toward him while the victim backed away, according to police. Witnesses reported seeing Harris with a knife just before the shooting.
The 25-year-old fired one round, striking Harris in the chest. Harris then went back inside the restaurant, where bystanders began providing aid and called 911.
Riel got into a heated argument with his 18-year-old ex-girlfriend, who apparently abandoned Gonzales at the isolated gas station, taking off in a black BMW.
Gonzales then allegedly stole a red work truck from a driver who was pumping gas and pursued his ex-girlfriend toward Anton Chico, about 40 miles north of the gas station.
Ultimately, Gonzales retrieved the BMW and drove off from the residence where the ex-girlfriend had left it. Her mother came to pick her up, but as they left, they found Gonzales waiting on NM 119 near Anton Chico.
During their encounter, shots were fired, and a vehicle collision occurred. The mother's boyfriend responded to the location and witnessed the crash. Gonzales fired on him. He fired back and ultimately subdued Gonzales.
I haven't blogged about this, but apparently it's a thing now and has been for maybe a decade. This is a really good breakdown of what one of these attacks could do (and more importantly, could NOT do) to a container ship or a tanker.
This Week in History: On September 21, 1893, Frank Duryea drove the first American-made gasoline-propelled vehicle. September 22, 1499: Switzerland became an independent state. September 22, 1656: An all-female jury heard the case of Judith Catchpole, accused of killing her child, and acquitted her in Patuxent County, Maryland. September 23, 1779: John Paul Jones aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard defeated the British frigate HMS Serepis and soon became the United States’ first well-known naval hero. September 24, 1869: The “Black Friday” panic on Wall Street after investors Jay Gould and James Fisk attempted to corner the gold market. — I …
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(Continued from Part 1. This concludes the article.) How did we get here? We are more than 40 trillion dollars in debt. Our streets are not lined with gold and other precious metals, but our nation is decaying around us. We are being invaded. Our military instead of repelling invaders and rounding them up is engaged in foreign adventures around the world contrary to what George Washington said about foreign adventurism and alliances. You can read my 14,000 word essay “Fall of the American Republic” for a detailed look into our likely fall in Parts One and Part Two. I …
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The following recipe for Leftovers Automatic Chicken & Rice is from SurvivalBlog reader Angie T. She writes: “My husband travels a lot for his work, and I don’t like to make elaborate meals for myself when he’s on tehe road. This is a recipe I use in my automatic rice cooker, using chicken leftovers. It is a variation on a recipe that found online. You can also use a traditional stovetop pan for cooking this.” Ingredients 2 cups of your preferred rice (I like Jasmine) 3 cups chicken broth (canned or leftover from your freezer, microwaved back to liquid.) 1/4 …
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Today’s graphic is a map showing average annual snowfall across the United States, county by county. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit.) The thumbnail image below is click-expandable. — If any SurvivalBlog readers have personally taken or otherwise hold the copyright to a particularly nice landscape photo or other photo of particular interest to preppers that is in a wide horizontal format (to match our blog template) then please send it in as an e-mail attachment, and I will consider posting it as a Graphic of the Week, or as a Top Note photo. I can of course credit you by name …
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In Economics & Investing Media of the Week we feature photos, charts, graphs, maps, video links, and news items of interest to preppers. Today, a map showing average land value (in USD) across the Lower 48, by ZIP Code. The thumbnail below is click-expandable. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit.) Economics & Investing Links of Interest The Fed is Raising interest rates. JWR’s Comments: This was the first rate hike green light in three years. It appears that they prefer the possibility of a recession over the certainty of accelerating inflation. But the FOMC is walking a fine line, …
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SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods. This column is a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from JWR. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. In today’s column, a new tick-borne disease with a rapidly-spreading vector. A New Virus in a Tick Invasive to the US. At the “progressive” publication The Hill: New virus detected in …
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Our weekly Snippets column is a collection of short items: responses to posted articles, practical self-sufficiency items, how-tos, lessons learned, tips and tricks, and news items — both from readers and from SurvivalBlog’s editors. Note that we may select some long e-mails for posting as separate letters. — US House of Representatives votes to require AM radio in all new cars. From an X post: “Joint statement from Chairman @SenTedCruz and @SenMarkey on the House passage of the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act: “This vote sends a clear message to car manufacturers that AM Radio is a lifeline that …
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This weekly column features media from around the American Redoubt region. (Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Wyoming.) Much of the region is also more commonly known as The Inland Northwest. Pictured above is Lake Pend-Oreille. REDOUBT NEWS LINKS Last week, I mentioned Quest Kodiak STOL cargo/passenger planes, built in Sandpoint, Idaho. Here is a video showing numerous Idaho backcountry landings and takeoffs in a Kodiak 100: “Craziest Take Off of My Life” — The Razor Thin Margins of Backcountry Flying. Two new Ambition Strikes videos from Hope, Idaho: Putting a Roof on Our Abandoned Mansion. My favorite comment …
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To be prepared for a crisis, every Prepper must establish goals and make both long-term and short-term plans. In this column, the SurvivalBlog editors review their week’s prep activities and planned prep activities for the coming week. These range from healthcare and gear purchases to gardening, ranch improvements, bug-out bag fine-tuning, and food storage. This is something akin to our Retreat Owner Profiles, but written incrementally and in detail, throughout the year. We always welcome you to share your own successes and wisdom in your e-mailed letters. We post many of those — or excerpts thereof — in the Odds …
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The latest meme created by JWR, as a variation on an existing meme: Meme Text: Most Lightning Strikes Are Sent Out: “To Whom It May Concern” But Some Seem To Have A Particular Address In Mind An interesting technical piece explains how cloud-to-ground lightning actually has one components that goes UP from the ground to touch a leader coming down that “connects the circuit.”: Does lightning travel upward or downward? Notes From JWR: Do you have a meme idea? Just e-mail me the concept, and I’ll try to assemble it. And if it is posted then I’ll give you credit. …
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“Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens’ lives. Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.” – Dr. Ron Paul
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Over Sunday lunch, I heard a rumor that truck drivers and others are planning a diesel strike for October 1st. What?? That don't make sense.
Yeah, I know. Fuel prices are high. But the idea that truckers are going to turn off the engine to protest high prices sounds a bit odd. Doing a little Google-fu tells me that the idea seems to have gotten the best legs on the Book of Face. That particular social media page has a world-wide reputation for accurate information (/sarc). So there you have that.
More pressing concerns is what's for lunch? I have a good tomato, a loaf of fresh bread and a pound of bacon. I believe it's time for a good ol' bacon and 'mater sammich.. I'm going to preheat the oven and slide that bacon in there for 30 minutes or so.
ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. -- A man was shot multiple times at a home in Escambia County on Saturday.
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office said the shooting took place on Tippin Avenue around 2 a.m. involving a woman and appears to be a case of self-defense.
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