PA Bill Number: HB829
Title: In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions;
Description: An Act amending the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), known as the Liquor Code, in preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions;
Last Action: Signed in House
Last Action Date: Jul 3, 2024
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When Guns Are Outlawed, The Outlaws Will Still Have Guns :: 11/03/2019
All over the world, in nations with far stricter gun control rules than the United States, criminals have guns. In some cases, like Mexico, we get blamed for it. In others, there’s no way we’re at fault. Yet they still have guns.
Common Prejudices about Gun Owners :: 11/02/2019
There was a time in the United States when owning a gun wasn’t considered an indicator of what sort of person you were. Owning a gun didn’t mean anything more than owning a wrench did. They’re both tools. And they were regarded as such.
Control is Preemptive Self-Defense :: 11/02/2019
Two Yale Law School students put together a pretty laughable argument for restricting the 2A rights of law-abiding citizens in a recent article published by The Atlantic, titled, “A Constitutional Case for Gun Control: History and textual analysis aren’t the only factors that matter. Our lives do, too.”
FL Bills Would Allow Confiscation Of Guns On Suspicion Of Abuse :: 11/02/2019
In an ideal world, legislators at all levels of government would be forced to walk the careful line between people’s rights and the public’s demand for laws that ensure public safety. They’d carefully balance each to craft laws that try their best to do both. They wouldn’t always succeed because, well, they’re human, but they’d try.
Second Amendment supporters gather at U.S. Capitol to promote gun rights :: 11/02/2019
A grassroots coalition of gun-rights supporters descended onto the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol building Saturday, rallying to forestall congressional action on gun control that has been gaining steam over the past few months.
The Quiet Campaign To Undermine The Second Amendment :: 11/02/2019
On today’s Bearing Arms’ Cam & Co. Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation joins the show to talk about the growing threat to firearms preemption laws, which are currently being challenged as part of a coordinated assault by cities and gun control groups around the nation.
Former Congressman Breaks Down What Red Flag Laws Really Mean For Law Abiding Citizens :: 11/01/2019
Former Republican Georgia Congressman Bob Barr is an ex-attorney and a Second Amendment enthusiast.
Mother JonesAnd Their Bizarre Spin on NRA Spending In VA :: 11/01/2019
Earlier this week, I wrote about how Everytown for Gun Safety has spent five times as much as the National Rifle Association in the Virginia elections. Five times. At the time, I presented this as a datapoint to combat the idea that the NRA buys politicians, a ridiculous claim we keep hearing over and over again.
New Hampshire Democrats compared to Nazis at House committee vote on firearms bill :: 11/01/2019
A House committee hearing on a firearms-related bill took a bitter turn Wednesday after activists in the crowd appeared with signs comparing New Hampshire Democrats to Nazis.
PA Judge Throws Out Pittsburgh Gun-Control Measures :: 11/01/2019
A Pennsylvania judge ruled on Tuesday that Pittsburgh's recently passed gun-control measures violate state law. In his ruling, Allegheny County judge Joseph M. James said the city's ordinances were in plain opposition to a state preemption law which prohibits localities from passing their own gun laws.
Pence: Democrats Dropped Gun Control For Impeachment :: 11/01/2019
Right now, Democrats are talking an awful lot about gun control. It’s a major campaign issue in the Democratic Presidential Primary and also in congressional races all over the country. Many are blasting Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for not voting on legislation that wouldn’t pass in the first place and, even if it were, wouldn’t be signed by the president.
Permitless gun carry in Oklahoma takes effect :: 11/01/2019
A "constitutional carry" gun law in Oklahoma took effect Friday. Also known as permitless carry, the law lets some Oklahomans carry a firearm in public without a license.
Just How Many Guns Did Australia Miss During 'Buyback' Anyway? :: 10/31/2019
If you ask someone to point to a successful model of gun control, anti-gunners will typically look to Australia. They’ll say the Aussies have done a great job of taking guns off the streets. They’ll point to low crime numbers–numbers from a nation that had low crime numbers before any attempt at a gun ban–and argue that it’s proof that gun control works.
Phila. City Council wants gun regulation, but Harrisburg holds all the cards :: 10/31/2019
A pair of Philadelphia bills that aim to regulate firearms might have wide support in the city, but state legislators in Harrisburg will have the final vote.
Pittsburgh officials plan to appeal court's gun ordinance ruling :: 10/31/2019
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto said Wednesday that he considered the city’s first court challenge on a package of controversial gun ordinances akin to a “preseason in sports.” He and other city officials said they figured the city would lose.
America, Guns, and Freedom Offers Antidote to Anti-Gun Quackery :: 10/30/2019
U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- “[U]tilitarian ethics refers to the judgment of a course of action being good (right) or bad (wrong) based on societal consequences, such as cost, and not necessarily on benefits to the individual,” Miguel A. Faria, Jr., M.D. writes in America, Guns, and Freedom, an exhaustive study on the Second Amendment and its perversion for political purposes by the medical establishment.
Maine Lawmakers Just Say NO to Moms Demand Action :: 10/30/2019
Maine state legislators just did something that gives some encouragement to Second Amendment activists across the country: They said “no” to Moms Demand Action and the gun prohibition lobby in the nation’s Northeast.
The Gun Grabbers Mislead Us :: 10/30/2019
Gun control did not become politically acceptable until the Gun Control Act of 1968 signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
The REAL Reason for the 2nd Amendment :: 10/30/2019
“Disband your army and return to Rome . . . immediately!” the letter read. Julius Caesar looked at it, appalled. Rome wanted him to step down from his position of power and disband his standing army.
Active Security: The Gun Debate Comes to the Synagogue :: 10/29/2019
Yocheved is a gun-owning Jewish mother who thinks it’s not anyone’s business—not even her rabbi’s—if she decides to carry a weapon to Rosh Hashanah services this year. She doesn’t know if any other gun owners in her community are armed when they attend services at her Orthodox shul in Dallas, but she believes they are. Yocheved, who moved to Texas from California about two years ago, in part because of less stringent gun laws, thinks her community would be safer if all Jews concealed a weapon under their clothing or tallit.
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