PA Bill Number: HR541
Title: Recognizing the month of October 2024 as "Domestic Violence Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Description: A Resolution recognizing the month of October 2024 as "Domestic Violence Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Last Action: Reported as committed
Last Action Date: Oct 1, 2024
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DRGO: Sociologists Cling to Their Religion Against Guns :: 12/10/2017
Did you know that “gun laws have not been strengthened because ‘a vocal and passionate minority of gun owners continues to feel emotionally and morally dependent on guns’”? Or that “The gun [has become a] sacred object . . . [Gun control for some gun owners] has come to represent an attack [on] masculinity, independence, and moral identity”? And that “The symbol of the gun as morally and existentially empowering is what activates pro-gun policy and anti-government sentiment”?
Hypocritical, fanciful gun beliefs :: 12/09/2017
It really is remarkable that anti-gun partisans can so blithely toss about bromides, and castigate those they disagree with, over hypothetical and speculative scenarios; they have no apparent regard for actual history and experience. Example: In spite of fervently held beliefs by anti-gunners, citizens exercising their natural, God-given—and constitutionally confirmed—right to self-defense reportedly have over ten thousand defensive uses of guns per year.
I'm Fed Up with Bigotry Against Concealed Carriers :: 12/09/2017
I am tired of being treated like a second-class citizen. Anti-gun Democrat politicians claim licensed concealed carry holders are dangerous. These bigoted politicians even say recognizing concealed carry permits will give criminals guns. These politicians said licensed gun owners should be put in prison for years.
Medical marijuana users don't have to turn in guns to cops, Honolulu police chief says :: 12/09/2017
The Honolulu Police Department has been sending letters out to medical marijuana users this year to tell them that they “have 30 days upon receipt of this letter to voluntarily surrender your firearms.”
Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad, FIX NICS? Are You. . . . :: 12/09/2017
USA – -(Ammoland.com)- Are you afraid of the new Fix NICS H.R. 4477 that was attached to H.R. 38, the National Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act?
Reciprocity may be next deadly loophole in our nation's gun laws :: 12/08/2017
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has come out swinging against national concealed carry reciprocity, contending it puts police officers at risk.
Senate committee presses FBI, ATF for suggestions to Fix NICS :: 12/08/2017
Senators pressed federal law enforcement officials this week for appropriate ways to improve the databases feeding the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, but received few clear answers.
The AP provides another example of how media pushes an anti-gun agenda :: 12/08/2017
It is usually pretty hard to definitively identify media bias. Often pressed for time, reporters are just unaware of opposing opinions or facts. And there is no way for readers to tell what information has been left out. But an Associated Press article, which appeared in hundreds of papers from the Los Angeles Times to the Houston Chronicle, provided a unique peek at how the media selectively picks anti-gun information in order to push for gun control.
Air Force rolls out reporting reforms in wake of Texas church shooting :: 12/07/2017
The Air Force is requiring higher levels of review before criminal cases are closed in order to ensure required disclosures are reported to the federal gun background-check database, Secretary Heather Wilson told Senate lawmakers Wednesday.
Citing risk, college cancels Second Amendment activist's speech hours before it begins :: 12/07/2017
Hampshire College, a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, cancelled the speaking engagement of a gun rights activist on its campus mere hours before it began, claiming that the speech merited “extra considerations and precautions.”
D.C. concealed handgun permit applications doubled in November :: 12/07/2017
Background checks for concealed handgun permits in Washington, D.C. doubled last month, according to federal data.
GOA Statement On National Reciprocity Passing In House :: 12/07/2017
The Gun Owners of America issued a statement last night regarding H.R. 38. Again, the organization is very critical of the Fix NICS portion of the bill, which was combined in the House with national reciprocity.
Grassley questions ATF bump stock ruling reversal :: 12/07/2017
(Washington) -- Federal policy in the wake of two mass shootings in the United States this fall was the subject of a U.S. Senate Judiciary hearing Wednesday.
Gun Control- the Same Old Bigotry with a Different Name :: 12/07/2017
It is all done in the name of Public Safety. That is why elite white males get to have guns for self-defense and you don’t. We saw the data in California where the racial and sexual bigotry was obvious.
House approves concealed-carry reciprocity, gun bill faces challenge in Senate :: 12/07/2017
House Republicans on Wednesday voted in favor of making concealed-carry permits valid across state lines, scoring a major victory for gun-rights supporters.
House votes to expand concealed-carry rights on same day as gun violence vigil :: 12/07/2017
WASHINGTON — The House voted Wednesday mostly along party lines to expand the right to carry concealed weapons, passing the National Rifle Association’s top legislative priority on the same day as a national vigil commemorating the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
Hawkins: National Reciprocity Would Be Greatest Gun Rights Boost Since Ratification of 2nd Amendment :: 12/06/2017
National reciprocity for concealed carry would be the greatest guns rights boost since the ratification of the Second Amendment in 1791.
New Trial for Self Defense, School Shooting at NAU :: 12/06/2017
Arizona -(Ammoland.com)- On 18 October, 2015, an 18-year-old student, Steven Jones, was attacked by a drunken mob of fraternity members. One member ran up to Jones and sucker punched him.
NICS Confiscation Chilling Reminder of the Power of Information and Perils of Registry :: 12/06/2017
As you may have heard, last year the FBI issued more than 4000 requests to the BATFE to seize guns from prohibited buyers. The FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) is supposedly an instant background check for people trying to purchase firearms and the information is supposed to be deleted upon an successful check.
Pennsylvania AG, Philly police commissioner criticize conceal-carry bill in Congress :: 12/06/2017
Philadelphia authorities and anti-gun violence groups are concerned about a federal measure backed by the National Rifle Association that would expand the right to carry concealed weapons.
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