WASHINGTON, D.C. (November 24, 2025) — Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) today announced the filing of a critically important, merits-stage brief with the United States Supreme Court in Wolford v. Lopez, a case challenging Hawaii’s authoritarian “default-ban” on the right to carry in public places. The brief dismantles the Ninth Circuit’s historical distortions and exposes how anti-rights states are resurrecting racist, post–Civil War “Black Codes” in an attempt to bypass the Constitution and disarm peaceable Americans. The brief can be viewed here.