Supreme Court weighs state limits on carrying guns on private property

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: ABC News

January 20, 2026, 5:30 AM


Three years after affirming a constitutional right of Americans to carry a gun for self-defense, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday will consider whether states can limit the carry of firearms on private property open to the public without first receiving the property owner’s consent.

The case involves a Hawaiian law and similar measures in four other states –- California, Maryland, New York and New Jersey –- where lawmakers set a strict "default rule" prohibiting the possession of handguns in privately-owned places where other members of the public might congregate, unless the owner affirmatively gives permission.

The laws govern locations such as stores, shopping malls, bars, restaurants, theaters, arenas, farms, and private beaches. It does not involve public property, which is subject to different rules.

"This law is extremely restrictive. It bans public carry in 96.4% of the publicly available land in the County of Maui," said Alan Beck, an attorney for three Maui residents and members of the Hawaii Firearms Coalition who are challenging the law.

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[J_William_Ryan]

1. Conservatives are infamous for their hypocrisy.

Conservatives are supposed to be advocates of private property rights, long opposed to public accommodations laws concerning restrictions on race and religion, such as Christian business owners shouldn’t be forced to accommodate gay patrons.

Yet here conservatives seek to force private property owners to allow guns on their property against their will by striking down laws allowing them to ban the carrying of firearms.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Freedom advocates using the power of government to enforce their private peeves.

It is total nonsense, even hypocritical.

[valleyrogue]

7. These people aren't "conservatives."

They have nothing to do with keeping and maintaining societal institutions. These radical rightists want to tear it all down.

[OC375]

3. Does Hawaii Have Sign Laws

In most states if you don’t want guns around (or knives or phones etc) you just post a sign.

[JohnnyRingo]

4. Right now we can't carry a gun into a concert or sporting event....

I'm not sure I understand, but could this case force such private events to allow weapons in whether or not they like it? That sounds crazy, but we live in such times.

If so this will really hurt the metal detector companies. .....Not that I like having to walk through them.

[azureblue]

5. but gins cannot be carried

in NRA conventions and GOP rallies.....

[bluestarone]

8. Yea, and don't forget them court rooms.

Gun lovers will see the truth about their guns, when and if the billionaires and so called christians get there way. Believe me guns WILL BE OUTLAWED, just like russia.

[valleyrogue]

6. There is no "constitutional right to carry a gun."

The Roberts court took the late NRA head Harlan Carter's (a convicted murderer as a young man) bullshit and made it up. The second amendment has nothing to do with private gun ownership but only with militias.

The NRA originally supported responsible gun control legislation. This was before nutjob Carter and his goons took over the organization.

The Roberts court is completely corrupt.

[slightlv]

10. Ah, but valley... here you're assuming they can think critically...

they can't even parse a sentence or correctly summarize a paragraph! Things WE learned in elementary school! I still remember the grammar trees we had to draw... just like we did with Math. Did those things go the way of the dinosaur?

I mean... anyone who can't parse the difference between WILL and SHALL (like our great SCOTUS) is a lost cause, IMO.

[Bob_in_VA]

9. Only one of the first ten Amendments has a qualifying clause

And, SURPRISE!!! It's the Second. Yet virtually every other one of the original ten has had limitations placed on it by various Supreme Court decisions over the years. But we're supposed to accept that the Second not only doesn't have limitations (a lie) but it never should have limitations (WRONG!!).
The gun humpers want everyone to believe that the Second Amendment only says "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be abridged". But anyone reading the Constitution knows that the full Amendment starts out "A well regulated militia, being necessary for the security of the state," which is followed by the gun humpers' favorite part. None of them though want any part of being a "well regulated militia". If they did, they would join their state's National Guard, the successor to the state militias of old.

[tinymontgomery]

11. When they start seeing the pictures of the Black Panthers

When they start seeing the pictures of the Black Panthers and the people in MI carrying weapons in private places they will rethink
that ruling.