Court cuts down Hawaii knife ban in controversial Second Amendment case A panel of 3 judges ruled unanimously that Hawaii’s butterfly knife ban violates the 2nd Amendment
A panel of federal judges ruled a Hawaii law banning butterfly knives violates the Second Amendment under the Supreme Court’s new history-and-tradition standard.
“Hawaii has not demonstrated that its ban on butterfly knives is consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition of regulating arms,” Judge Carlos Bea, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, wrote in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion on Teter v. Lopez, which was released Monday.
