by Anthony Morelli
This is a disgrace to the U.S. Constitution.
People who have done nothing wrong shouldn’t have their freedom taken away.
But this gun control injustice is wreaking havoc on innocent people.
Hawaii is making its case as the most anti-gun state in America, even ahead of such states as California, Massachusetts, New York, or Connecticut.
The first time they made national news in this regard was when the state Supreme Court decided that the “Aloha Spirit” ranks ahead of the Second Amendment in terms of their gun laws.
Now they are once again in the news thanks to a ridiculous and discriminatory law that turns some ethnic minorities into second-class citizens who cannot own guns.
One would think that this would go against the spirit of “progressivism” which claims to be against racial or ethnic discrimination, but apparently when it’s done in the name of gun control it’s okay.
Micronesia, a small country in the Pacific Ocean, has a number of people who come to Hawaii under a pact they have with the U.S.
But the state of Hawaii is not allowing these people to own guns.
According to Bearing Arms, “Hawaii law essentially prohibits such legal nonimmigrants from procuring and possessing firearms. The complaint states that Hawaii’s ‘prohibition of firearm acquisition, ownership, and possession, by COFA aliens makes it impossible for those individuals to exercise their right to ‘keep arms’, as guaranteed by the Second Amendment’s text and as recognized and reaffirmed by the Supreme Court in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n, Inc. v. Bruen.’”
It seems that they are getting these people on a technicality and using it to promote gun control by prohibiting a small group of people from owning them.
They are trying to get them on the fact that they aren’t legally considered “immigrants” under the U.S. pact with the Federated States of Micronesia, despite the fact that they would commonly be considered immigrants in every way.
The article then dives into the lawsuit against this unfair rule, saying, “The complaint was filed in the Federal District Court of Hawaii. It’s been just shy of a month since the filing. How the case is going to progress is not yet known. Considering Beck and his partners’ track records — in this specific case O’Grady — of dismantling Hawaii’s unconstitutional law, it would come as no surprise if the State of Hawaii would try to enter into some sort of an agreement with the aggrieved on the matter.”
Hopefully the people who are having their Second Amendment freedoms trampled on will get the justice they deserve in this case.
The Constitution does not only apply to American citizens, otherwise the government would be able to force green-card holders to follow a certain religion or suppress their free speech.
In fact, the Constitution applies to everyone who is under U.S. jurisdiction, and that includes these people from Micronesia.
Now it will be up to the court system to rectify this and allow these people to own guns.