A Hawaii ruling cites ‘The Wire’ in rebuking a US Supreme Court decision that expanded gun rights

A ruling by Hawaii's high court saying that a man can be prosecuted for carrying a gun in public without a permit cites crime-drama TV series “The Wire” and invokes the “spirit of Aloha” in an apparent rebuke of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that expanded gun rights nationwide. “The thing about the old days, they the old days,” said the unanimous Hawaii Supreme Court ruling issued Wednesday, borrowing a quote from season four, episode three of the HBO series in expressing that the culture of the era from the founding of the country shouldn't dictate contemporary life. The ruling stems from a 2017 case against Christopher Wilson, who had a loaded pistol in his front waistband when police were called when a Maui landowner reported seeing a group of men on his property at night.