Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that the Second Amendment does not apply outside the home

QUESTIONS PRESENTED On April 26, 2021, this Court granted review in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc., v. Corlett, No. 20-843, 593 U.S.__ ((NYSRPA”). As modified by the Court in its order granting certiorari, the issue presented in NYSRPA is “[w]hether the State’s denial of petitioners’ applications for concealed-carry licenses for selfdefense violated the Second Amendment.” This petition raises the same issue. Like the New York statute at issue in NYSRPA, Hawaii will not issue a permit to carry a firearm to an ordinary citizen for purposes of self-defense. Like the petitioners in NYSRPA, petitioner’s application for a carry permit (open or concealed) was denied because self-defense is categorically an insufficient reason. Indeed, in sustaining the denial of petitioner’s application, the en banc Ninth Circuit majority held that the Second Amendment does not apply outside the home at all, a holding in direct conflict with the holdings of the D.C., First and Seventh Circuits and inconsistent with the approaches followed by all other circuits to have reached the issue. The questions presented are: 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding, in direct conflict with the holdings of the First, Seventh and D.C. Circuits, that the Second Amendment does not apply outside the home at all. 2. Whether the denial of petitioner’s application for a handgun carry license for selfdefense violated the Second Amendment. i