AXIOS (Josephine Walker) - Supreme Court's Hawai'i gun law ruling narrows playbook for other states
After the Supreme Court struck down Hawai'i's gun law Thursday, lawmakers and gun-control advocates are reassessing which firearm restrictions they can enact that this court will let stand. Why it matters: The ruling shows how hard it has become to design modern gun laws under the court's exacting standard, which asks whether any new restrictions fit within the nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation. - Hawaiʻi crafted its law specifically to survive that test — and still lost, 6-3. Driving the news: The court's ruling in Wolford v. Lopez determined that the state can't force private businesses open to the public to be gun-free zones. - The justices effectively shifted the burden of keeping guns out of private…