Juana Summers is a political correspondent for NPR covering race, justice and politics. She has covered politics since 2010 for publications including Politico, CNN and The Associated Press. She got her start in public radio at KBIA in Columbia, Mo., and also previously covered Congress for NPR.
A bill that would have banned assault rifles in Hawaiʻi stalled on one of the last days of this legislative session. The bill sought to ban the sale and possession of semi-automatic assault rifles beginning in 2026.