Melee weapon-loving Hawaiians have been marching around in public with all sorts of ridiculous bladed implements in public since the state loosened open-carry laws in May, the AP reports.
“I get stopped probably two or three times on an average evening walk and just have a conversation about what gun laws are in Hawaii and what the weapons laws are,” said Waikiki gun rights activist Andrew Roberts as he carried around a halberd, a kind of spear-axe hybrid you would see in the background on a weapons rack in a movie set during medieval times. It wasn’t clear what the point he was trying to make was about connecting the Second Amendment to pre-industrial weaponry.
“On a recent Saturday morning, a halberd-toting Roberts gathered with other coalition members in Waikiki’s sprawling Kapiolani Park. A few carried samurai swords. One had a butterfly knife – also known as a balisong, prominent in martial arts in the Philippines, where many Hawaii residents have roots. A wooden, Scottish sword dangled from the waist of a man in a red kilt,” the AP wrote of the Waikiki weapons club as they gathered to chat about Second Amendment freedoms.