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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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Actress Charlize Theron called the idea of U.S. teachers arming themselves as a gun violence solution following recent school shootings "so outrageous."

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HS students' suspension over gun range photo ignites uproar, potential lawsuit :: 03/17/2018

A New Jersey school district that allegedly suspended two high school students this week over a gun photo taken during a family visit to a private shooting range is facing community backlash and the threat of a lawsuit over district policies.

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Snopes Blows It When Fact Checking CPRC On Mass Shootings :: 03/17/2018

John Lott’s Crime Prevention Research Center exists just to take a look at crime data, particularly crimes related to firearms. In the process, it’s found that guns aren’t the evil many anti-gun groups like to portray them as. It exists to inject some sanity into the debate about guns.

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Are Schools Safe and Growing Safer? :: 03/16/2018

How safe are our schools? Are they growing safer? You would think those simple questions would be well covered given the extensive media time we’ve devoted to the Parkland, Florida murders. You don’t know the answers because the media never told you. It is easier for the media to manipulate you if you are uninformed. It is easier for politicians to manipulate you. For a moment, let’s try to understand rather than inflame.

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FBI: The Obama Administration Purged 500,000 Fugitives From the Gun Background Check System :: 03/16/2018

During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this week on Capitol Hill, FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich revealed the Obama Justice Department purged more than 500,000 fugitives from the federal gun background check system. 

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High School Teacher On Leave After Questioning School Shooting Walkout :: 03/16/2018

ROCKLIN (CBS13) — A Rocklin High School teacher is on paid administrative leave over her views about the national school walk out. The teacher says all she did was open up a debate about the politics of the protest in her classroom.

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Sign supporting Second Amendment gets high school student booted from anti-violence walkout :: 03/16/2018

A Minnesota high school student was booted off campus by the school’s principal, reportedly over a pro-Second Amendment sign that he brought to a school walkout against gun violence on Wednesday.

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Where teachers and staff were allowed to carry there were no mass shootings :: 03/16/2018

President Trump thinks arming school staff and teachers deter threats. Surprise, media fact checkers from The New York Times to FactCheck.org accuse him of “false and misleading claims” to “inaccurate facts.”

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“Why would any law-abiding citizen need an AR-15?” This question has been a favorite talking point of gun control activists in recent months, grating the ears of many lawful owners of the popular semi-automatic rifle.

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David Hogg Gets Horrible News as Anti-Gun Campaign Blows Up in His Face :: 03/15/2018

The gun grabbers are going to hate this. In the month since the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, American television screens have been images of angry teenagers demanding that grown-ups do something about gun violence in the United States.

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Grassley slams Florida officials for not attending hearing on school safety :: 03/15/2018

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) blasted a pair of Florida officials on Wednesday for refusing to appear before the committee for its hearing on school safety and gun control measures.

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Gun walkouts in schools don't let students think for themselves :: 03/15/2018

Gun control is a contentious issue. It is one thing for a teacher to talk to his or her class about the issue, hopefully presenting both sides of the debate. But a rally on school property, featuring student speeches and attendance by school administrators and teachers, is something quite different.

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Kaya Jones goes off on gun control protesters in fiery Twitter rant :: 03/15/2018

Chrystal Neria, whose stage name is Kaya Jones, shared some pretty frank thoughts about the gun control debate with her followers on Twitter during the National School Walkout protests.

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A mass shooting is generally described as an attack involving a firearm and the killing of three or more people at one time. While some quibble on that definition, it’s at least a starting place. While some have a looser definition, few argue that such an attack isn’t a mass shooting.

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School Gun-Control Walkouts Do Not Prove That Kids Should Vote :: 03/15/2018

Perhaps not every schoolkid is worthy of our elected officials’ ear and a vote.

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School Walkout Organizers Can't Decide What They're Protesting :: 03/15/2018

The organization that coordinated Wednesday’s national school walkout, which was ostensibly a protest for stricter gun-control laws, has cited a number of other political causes as a justification for the mass demonstration.

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Rallying to call for restrictive laws is a whole lot easier than getting people to submit to them.

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Attorney General will 'better enforce gun laws,' prioritize school safety :: 03/14/2018

The nation’s top law enforcement official said this week the Department of Justice will prioritize school safety and better enforce existing gun laws.

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Heritage Foundation Report Counters Claims about Mass Shootings :: 03/14/2018

A new report from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C., has published a three-page report that counters much of the anti-gun rhetoric about mass shootings and so-called “assault weapons” in the wake of the Parkland, Florida high school tragedy.

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