Today, the Supreme Court heard the latest case that's testing the limits of the constitutional right to carry a gun in America.

As William Brigham reports, today's arguments centered on one strict state law aimed at preventing gun violence.

Today's argument centered around a political clash over a Hawaii gun law.

In that state, gun owners are prohibited

from carrying firearms on private property that's open to the public, such as hotels,

beaches, or stores, unless the property owner explicitly permits it. Otherwise, no guns allowed.

Three gun-owning residents challenged that law, saying it goes farther than the

legal limits about where the government can bar firearms. So for more on today's arguments,

I am joined now by Chip Brownlee. He's a reporter with the Trace, which is a nonprofit news

organization that covers gun violence. Chip, thanks so much for being here. Let's talk about this

Hawaii law. Let's say I'm a concealed carry permit owner in Hawaii. I want to go to the beach or a

mall. The law says what? The law says that you would have to get permission from the owner of that

property to bring

your concealed carry gun with you there.

Now what that would look like in practice is the probably the owner of such establishment

would have to post a sign saying we allow guns, or you'd have to get the verbal consent

from the owner or the proprietor or a representative

to bring your gun there.

So you could imagine it being a restaurant that has a sign that says, we allow guns.

And this is kind of opposed to what is typical in the rest of the country.

And most of the country is the opposite.

For a restaurant to exclude

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