(28 Aug 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Honolulu – 22 June 2024
1. Various of Second Amendment activists marching
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Alan Beck, gun rights attorney:
"Hawaii laws has been revised to allow for the open carry of melee weapons. By melee, I mean like, swords, axes, halberd, anything that, it’s actually is a non firearm weapon."
3.Second Amendment activists showing swords
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Honolulu – 23 August 2024
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, The Associated Press:
"Hawaii has long had some of the strictest gun restrictions in the nation, but a 2022 US Supreme Court decision has been forcing states, including Hawaii, to revamp its gun laws. That decision says Americans have a right to carry firearms for self-defense."
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5. U.S. Supreme Court justices posing for picture
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ARCHIVE: Honolulu – 7 March 2024
6. Exteriors of Hawaii state capitol
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Honolulu – 22 June 2024
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Roberts, Hawaii Firearms Coalition:
"I’ll walk through Waikiki with it and just have a bunch of conversations with people. I get stopped probably 2 or 3 times on an average evening walk, and just have a conversation about what gun laws are in Hawaii and what the weapons laws are."
8. Various of Roberts
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Honolulu – 23 August 2024
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, The Associated Press:
"The Hawaii Attorney General’s office warns there’s still a lot of laws in place that govern how these kinds of weapons can be used. And some who advocate for gun safety say they’re also concerned about these kinds of weapons on the streets."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Honolulu – 22 June 2024
10. Man in kilt with weapon
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Rice, Hawaii resident:
"This is is just like, you know, part of my heritage, like, because, you know, everybody think, ‘oh, Hawaiian hula skirts, you know, hula dancing, eat poi.’ No, we were warriors too."
12. Rice at gathering
STORYLINE:
Hawaii’s tourist hotspot of Waikiki is known for bikinis, shopping and surfboards. But resident Andrew Roberts has recently introduced a different item on evening walks through his neighborhood: a battle-axe on a long pole.
Roberts, director of the Hawaii Firearms Coalition, has been taking the 15th-century-style European halberd on his strolls since May. That’s when Hawaii loosened its weapons laws in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision that Americans have a right to carry firearms in public for self-defense.
The so-called Bruen decision upended gun laws nationwide, but especially in Hawaii, which has long had some of the country’s toughest restrictions — and some of the lowest rates of gun violence.
A subsequent federal appeals court ruling applied Bruen to the state’s ban on butterfly knives and found it unconstitutional. While that case and others related to Hawaii’s weapons laws continue to be litigated, lawmakers responded this year by passing a measure that generally allows deadly or dangerous weapons to be openly carried in public. Previously, anyone found armed with them was subject to immediate arrest.
The new law is providing opportunities for some residents to connect with Native Hawaiian or other cultures through traditional weapons, while also generating concern that as the display of weapons becomes more common, people will be more likely to use them.
"Everybody think, ‘oh, Hawaiian hula skirts, you know, hula dancing poi.’ No, we were warriors too," Rice said.
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