The Supreme Court announced Friday it would hear a major gun rights case out of Hawaii during its 2025-26 term, which begins next week.

The justices will weigh a challenge from three residents of Maui and a gun rights organization, who say the state’s law banning concealed carry permit holders from carrying on private property — and some other locations — runs afoul of the Second Amendment.

Specifically, the challengers say the law conflicts with 2022 precedent from the high court in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen, where the conservative majority on the court held that for a gun control law to pass scrutiny, it must be consistent with the history and tradition of the nation dating back to the founding.

“The legislation criminally prohibits a person with a concealed carry permit from bringing a handgun onto fifteen types of property,” the challengers argued in their high court petition.

“The law also flips the default rule on all private property. Whereas prior law allowed a person with a carry permit to bring firearms onto private property open to the public unless the owner prohibited it, the new legislation generally prohibits the carry of firearms onto private property open to the public unless the owner affirmatively gives permission.”

The state law also restricts permit holders from carrying a firearm in any government building, beach, playground and park, plus in restaurants or bars that serve liquor.

A district court had blocked Hawaii’s statute, but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed that decision, letting the law take effect.

Attorneys for the state said the new law strikes a balance between prior gun regulations and the 2022 ruling in Bruen, with the goal to protect public safety as well as gun rights.

The case is Jason Wolford, et al. v. Anne E. Lopez, Attorney General of Hawaii.

It took four justices to vote in favor of hearing the dispute for oral arguments to be granted.

• This article was based in part on wire service reports.

• Alex Swoyer can be reached at aswoyer@washingtontimes.com.