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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Anti-gun activists, Dems attack 'imaginary 2nd Amendment' after school shooting :: 05/21/2018
Friday’s Santa Fe High School shooting in Texas left Democrat lawmakers and gun control advocates calling for change.
Hard Reality: No Mainstream Gun Control Law Would Have Stopped the Texas High School Horror :: 05/21/2018
Virginia Democratic Senator Mark Warner told CNN's State of the Union that he doesn't think "there's a single piece of legislation" that could have prevented last week's horrible killing at a Texas high school, adding that a more holistic "series of actions" are needed.
PA Governor Wolf and Republican Members of the General Assembly Seek to Preclude the Amish from Obtaining Guns and Ammunition :: 05/21/2018
Several months ago, a number of bills were submitted by Members of the General Assembly, seeking to prohibit the private transfer of rifles and shotguns – thereby, requiring that all transfers or purchases of any type of firearm, go through a Federal Firearms Licensee – and more recently, Governor Wolf called upon the General Assembly to pass the legislation, which, in violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, would absolutely preclude the Amish from obtaining any type of firearm, due to their closely-held religious convictions, which preclude their picture being taken.
Pennsylvania: Upper Darby councilwoman proposes assault weapons ban in township :: 05/21/2018
UPPER DARBY > A councilwoman is proposing a ban on assault weapons in the township.
There Are Fewer School Shootings Now Than During the 1990s :: 05/21/2018
Now that I have several children, I'm often in the company of other parents who talk about the way things "used to be." When the issue of child safety comes up, I hear parents sadly shake their heads and say things like "it's not like it was when we were kids ... the world is so much more dangerous now."
What the left's anti-Second Amendment crusade is really about :: 05/21/2018
I am convinced that the left's war on the Second Amendment has nothing to do with public safety (even if some of their foot soldiers believe it individually, and even though the argument is renewed frequently, especially but not exclusively if a gun is used in a crime).
From Prozac to Parkland: Are Psychiatric Drugs Causing Mass Shootings? :: 05/20/2018
While mass killers generally have guns in their hands, another commonality is that they often have psychiatric drugs in their blood. The difference, though, is that it isn't guns that have the side effect of "homicidal ideation."
Stop Paying Mass Murderers to Kill Our Kids :: 05/19/2018
Mass murderers kill our kids for simple reasons. Mass murder of innocents gives the murderer a powerful reward. Yes, murder pays. In fact, the payoff is huge. The payoff is also extremely reliable.
Why are People Actually So Paranoid About Guns? :: 05/19/2018
It’s become pretty obvious in the fallout from the Parkland shooting and March for Our Lives movement that some people are scared at least as scared of guns in and of themselves as they are of murderers. Why might that be?
10 Killed at Texas High School. Explosive Devices Found at Campus. :: 05/18/2018
According to law enforcement, most of the dead are students. Two suspects are in custody.
Gunman opens fire in Texas high school, killing 10 people :: 05/18/2018
SANTA FE, Texas — A 17-year-old carrying a shotgun and a revolver opened fire at a Houston-area high school Friday, killing 10 people, most of them students, authorities said. It was the nation's deadliest such attack since the massacre in Florida that gave rise to a campaign by teens for gun control.
Gun Rights, Gun Control Advocates React to Texas Shooting :: 05/18/2018
Politicians, activists rehash calls for increased security, regulation of guns.
More Schools Arm School Staff :: 05/18/2018
School districts in three more states announced that they would arm school staff. I wrote about this trend here in April and here in March. The map keeps changing as more and more districts adopt a policy to allow some of their teachers and staff to go armed on campus.
Wasserman Schultz Calls Five Million Americans 'Terrorists' :: 05/18/2018
“The NRA is kind of just shy of a terrorist organization,” declared Debbie Wasserman Schultz. “They have done everything they can to perpetuate the culture of violence that we have in our country with the spread of assault weapons across the nation.” She was responding to Oliver North, the NRA’s new president, who said recently of gun-controllers, “They call them activists. That’s what they’re calling themselves. They’re not activists — this is civil terrorism.” He accused them of “intimidation and harassment and lawbreaking.”
Boulder passed an 'assault weapon' ban Tuesday, got sued Wednesday :: 05/17/2018
A Colorado city is headed to federal court over a ban on the sale and possession of guns deemed to be “assault weapons” as well as bump stocks and magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds.
Mark Wahlberg And Hollywood's Anti-Gun Hypocrisy :: 05/17/2018
As an actor, I really enjoy Mark Wahlberg’s movies. He’s far better an actor than he was a rapper, that’s for sure. I kind of cringe when I think about how we were all listening to “Good Vibrations” back in the day. I really do.
The next battleground in the gun debate may be taxes :: 05/17/2018
I’ve mentioned before—and I say this as a guy who’s pro guns and supports the Second Amendment—that demographics and changing consumer behavior are slowly nibbling away at America’s rich gun culture. I believe that we have seen the high-water mark for that culture and it is slowly receding. I emphasize slowly.
Are smart guns ready for prime time? The technology may be, but gun owners remain wary :: 05/16/2018
With 38,658 people killed by guns nationwide in 2016, two-thirds by suicide, the grass-roots advocacy group Common Ground of Southeastern Wisconsin is pushing the idea of applying smart technology to guns. Common Ground is working with Do Not Stand Idly By, a national effort, to pressure gun makers to emphasize technology that requires user authentication to make a gun work.
Conservative student's parting shot at college's anti-gun policies goes viral: 'Come and take it' :: 05/16/2018
A conservative woman who recently graduated from Kent State University has received threats after she took aim at her school’s anti-gun policies in a photo shoot where she carried an AR-10 and wore a cap that said, “Come and take it.”
Did Bloomberg Open Can of Worms with Epidemic of Dishonesty Talk? :: 05/16/2018
Did anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg open the proverbial can of worms over the weekend when he told a commencement audience in Texas that Americans are facing “an epidemic of dishonesty,” according to CBS News?
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