John,

The Supreme Court is on a tear to ignore the history of gun regulations in the United States, putting American lives at risk.

The Court just struck down Hawaiʻi’s common-sense gun law that regulates carrying a firearm on private property open to the public. This deeply dangerous SCOTUS opinion makes one thing clear: The conservative supermajority privileges guns and the gun industry over the safety of the American people.

We are up against a wave of Second Amendment expansion, John, fueled by the Trump Administration, its extremist judicial appointees, and gun industry loyalists in Congress. They want to make guns accessible to anyone to pad their own pockets – that’s why Brady is taking on their deadly crusade, working to stop the wave in courts across the country. But we can’t do it without your help. John, will you support Brady’s Legal efforts as we fight back against Second Amendment extremism in the courts?

After SCOTUS rewrote the rules on firearms in public spaces in Bruen, Hawaiʻi took action to protect its people and public safety while respecting SCOTUS’s Bruen decision.  Hawaiʻi lawmakers enacted a law establishing that the default is that gun owners must receive express consent to carry their firearm on private property held open to the public. In practice, this offered a sense of security to business owners like local shopkeepers or restaurant owners who opened their private property to the public, and to the people who patronized them. 

It was straightforward and common sense: Private property owners did not need to indicate in advance that firearms were not permitted on their property. But when Second Amendment extremists labelled this an infringement on their right to bear arms, the gun lobby swarmed to tear it down. Now, the Supreme Court has once again put gun rights above the American people, and that’s why it’s more important than ever for us to keep fighting back and stop the ‘guns everywhere’ agenda. 

This term alone, we have watched the Court ensure that gun laws in America exist on extremist terms. In this opinion, the Court has manipulated a legal test of its own design to further enable this attack on public safety and our freedom from gun violence. 

The Supreme Court is seizing every opportunity to expand the meaning of the Second Amendment, and we cannot give them any more opportunities. We need your help to combat gun lobby money in our judicial system. John, will you support Brady’s Legal team as we fight back against Second Amendment extremism in the courts? 

Your support means we can keep fighting to protect common-sense gun laws and take on the extremists on the Supreme Court. 

Thank you, John.

Shira Feldman
Senior Director of Constitutional Litigation, Brady