Everytown Telegraphs Its SCOTUS Playbook on Wolford

Everytown for Gun Safety — Michael Bloomberg's nine-figure anti-gun operation — just dropped a detailed breakdown of *Wolford v. Lopez*, the Supreme Court case that could determine whether states like Hawaii can bury your carry rights under a mountain of bureaucratic restrictions. They are not doing you a favor. They are rallying their base and signaling to friendly justices exactly which arguments they want heard.

Here is what is actually at stake: *Wolford v. Lopez* challenges Hawaii's post-*Bruen* carry permit scheme, which preserved the old "may issue" stranglehold under new language. Hawaii demanded applicants prove "urgency or need" — the same subjective, discretionary gatekeeping the Supreme Court already struck down in *Bruen* (2022). The Ninth Circuit sided with Hawaii anyway. Now SCOTUS decides whether that defiance stands.

Oral argument was January 20, 2026. Everytown filed an amicus brief and followed it with a glossy public explainer — framing Hawaii's bureaucratic carry ban as a reasonable "public safety" measure. Translation: they want SCOTUS to hand every blue-state governor a reusable blueprint the moment the ruling drops.

Everytown's preferred outcome is clear: a ruling narrow enough to let states invent new hoops, new fees, new "training" mandates, and new "sensitive place" exclusions that eliminate carry rights for anyone who is not already wealthy or politically connected. They call this "common sense." It is a veto on your constitutional rights dressed in soft language.

Watch what they leave out. Everytown's write-up ignores that Hawaii's own data shows law-abiding permit applicants — not criminals — are the ones these schemes block. Criminal violence does not stop at the permit office window. Only you do.

The *Bruen* majority was explicit: if the government cannot point to a historical tradition of analogous regulation from the Founding era, the restriction falls. Everytown is betting that at least one justice flinches when they invoke crime statistics and sympathetic plaintiffs. That is the entire game plan — and now you have seen it.

**Bottom line:** Everytown just handed you their SCOTUS cheat sheet. Share it with every gun owner you know so no one is blindsided when the ruling drops — likely before July 2026. Stay locked in at WTF News for updates the moment the decision hits.