PA Bill Number: SB99
Title: In county boards of elections, further providing for expenses of county boards and of primaries and elections to be paid by county, expenses of ...
Description: In county boards of elections, further providing for expenses of county boards and of primaries and elections to be paid by county, expenses of ... ...
Last Action: Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS
Last Action Date: May 8, 2024
Strengthening PA Preemption Law on Deck for Vote TOMORROW in House
Date: 09/22/2014
Please help us push 'much needed changes' to statewide firearm law preemption over the top by contacting 'your' legislator and ALL PA legislators.
Tomorrow (the 23rd), on the floor of the PA House, a pro-gun amendment [A07845-Rep. Keller] will be offered to HB 1243 containing the language from HB 2011 that anti-gun groups are deathly afraid of. There are several other worthy pro-gun amendments to also support and are listed below by groups (Support v. Oppose):
[Support these] Pro-gun amendments: A06276 - A06283 - A06439 - A07037 - A07556 - A07845
[Oppose ALL of these] Anti-gun amendments: A06142 - A06284 - A09264 - A09265 - A09266
The attempt to amend HB 1243 is, admittedly, a last attempt to finally move long overdue legislation that would put teeth into PA preemption law and allow us to challenge local laws. To date, dozens upon dozens of PA boroughs, townships and counties have enacted, or continue to maintain, illegal local gun control ordinances including Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, City of Erie, Lancaster, Reading and the state capital of Harrisburg as well as Allegheny County, Philadelphia County, etc. It is time to end these flagrant violations of law before more gun owners are victimized!
Anti-gun state lawmakers in Harrisburg are dancing like marionettes at the beck and call of CeaseFire PA and attempting to kill or stall this crucial legislation. The anti-gun amendment [A06142], filed by state Representative Steven Santarsiero (D-31), would end the private sales of long guns [rifles and shotguns] and put in place the mechanism to register ALL firearms in this state. Even the U.S. Department of Justice, stated that "universal" background checks will not work without implementing a gun owner registration system. In fact, the use of both rifles and shotguns in crime has fallen by 50% despite the most recent (blatant) lies, on Tuesday the 16th, of CeaseFire PA in the Capitol Rotunda.
We all know that criminals, by definition, violate the law and obtain firearms illegally. Anti-gun groups are actually encouraging PA communities to violate PA law by supporting local gun laws and opposing pre-emption reform AND attempting to grow government scrutiny of the firearms law-abiding citizens own based on lies!
PLEASE help to ensure that firearms preemption [A07845 and the other pro-gun amendments] is amended into HB 1243, without any anti-gun amendments. It is critical that you contact your state Representative TODAY and urge him or her to support the Keller, Stephens, Saccone and Grove amendments to HB 1243 and reject any amendments mandating so-called "universal" background checks. For contact information or help identifying your state lawmakers, click here.
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www.foac-pac.org/And-Then-They-Came-For-The-Bolt-actions/News-Item/1298
