PA Bill Number: SB135
Title: In hunting and furtaking, further providing for dogs pursuing, injuring or killing big game.
Description: In hunting and furtaking, further providing for dogs pursuing, injuring or killing big game. ...
Last Action: Second consideration
Last Action Date: Jul 17, 2017
FOAC Monthly Meeting - August - 2017 - 08/13/2017
South Fayette Township Municipal Bldg. 515 Millers Run Road, Morgan, PA
Concealed Carry Seminar - 51st House District - Rep. Matt Dowling - 09/23/2017
Meyersdale Community Center 215 Main St., Meyersdale, PA
Quote Of The Week
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!" - Samuel Adams, speech to the State House in Philadelphia, 1776
Another Gun-Control Fantasy Just to Make US Feel Better :: 07/25/2017
I remember watching Disney as a child. As an adult I find reality far more interesting and entertaining than fantasy. Not everyone feels that way. Today, lots of us ask for 144 character solutions. That is too bad. These faux answers might sooth our conscience, but they seldom work out well. For example, this week I read some crime reports where we disarmed the victims rather than the bad guys.
Fewer shootings, but more murders in Chicago as top cop calls for more gun laws :: 07/25/2017
Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson on Monday said his department has recovered more than 5,000 firearms from city streets so far this year, yet the number of homicides has outpaced a historically violent 2016.
NYT Readers Get Upset When a Black Woman Gets a Gun :: 07/25/2017
Antonia Okafor is a black graduate student who carries a gun for self-defense and some of the New York Times readership is extremely bothered by it.
Appeals court blocks enforcement of District's strict concealed-carry law :: 07/25/2017
A federal appeals court on Tuesday blocked the District from enforcing strict limits on carrying concealed firearms in public, restrictions that police officials have said are necessary to promote public safety in the nation’s capital.
Florida hit with $1.1 million in legal fees on Brady 'Docs vs. Glocks' case :: 07/25/2017
Florida had to shell out $1.1 million in attorney’s fees to lawyers with gun control group the Brady Campaign, ending the lengthy court battle over the state’s law preventing health care workers from asking about their patients’ guns
She Persisted - Gun Owner Fights Unlawful "No Return" Gun Policy :: 07/21/2017
On July 17, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit confirmed that law enforcement officials in New York acted unlawfully with respect to guns confiscated from a Nassau County woman in 2012.
Supreme Court Asked to Review Maryland's Gun Ban :: 07/21/2017
Fairfax, Va.— A group of Maryland citizens, with the support of the National Rifle Association, filed a petition to the United States Supreme Court on Friday seeking to reverse a Court of Appeals ruling that stripped some of America’s most popular rifles of Second Amendment protection. The 4th Circuit ruling in the case Kolbe v. Hogan is a direct contradiction of the Supreme Court’s 2008 decision, District of Columbia v. Heller, which re-affirmed American citizens’ right to self-defense.
Judge Tells Marine to Choose Between 2A Rights And Fostering Grandson :: 07/19/2017
On Monday, the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) filed a lawsuit against Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) for impeding on foster and adoptive parents’ Second Amendment rights.
Black women picking up firearms for self-defense :: 07/25/2017
Sitting in a classroom above a gun range, a woman hesitantly says she isn't sure she could ever shoot and kill someone, even to protect herself. Couldn't she just aim for their leg and try to maim them?
Texas Self-Defense: Suspect fatally shot by man in self-defense :: 07/25/2017
KILLEEN - Killeen police have determined the death of a woman that was fatally shot by a man Thursday at 1100 Willow Springs Road was an act of self-defense.
Georgia Self-Defense: Homeowner shoots and kills burglar dressed like a woman :: 07/25/2017
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. - Police say a homeowner shot and killed a man dressed like a woman after he broke into his home.
South Carolina Self-Defense: Woman pulls gun on man after he plows car through people at a funeral :: 07/25/2017
Authorities in Columbia, South Carolina, say a man intentionally drove his car through a group of people as they attended a funeral last week, but witnesses also say one woman may have prevented further injury after she pulled a gun on the suspect.