PA Bill Number: HB2663
Title: Providing for older adults protective services; and making a repeal.
Description: Providing for older adults protective services; and making a repeal. ...
Last Action: Referred to AGING AND OLDER ADULT SERVICES
Last Action Date: Nov 19, 2024
Legal News
Foster parents lose kids over legally owned firearm :: 09/02/2015
A Las Vegas couple who have been foster parents for more than five years and taken in over 100 kids is fighting to get back their foster license after it was revoked in July over an incident which had them pulling a gun in self-defense.
Sig Sauer sued over Mexican drug cartel murder :: 09/02/2015
Firearms manufacturer Sig Sauer is being sued for allegedly providing the pistol used by a Mexican drug cartel member to kill 12 people, including a prominent human rights activist, in 2010, German news network Deutsche Welle reported Monday.
California's 10-day gun registration waiting period found unconstitutional :: 09/01/2015
Second Amendment activists scored a huge victory last Tuesday when a federal judge struck down California’s 10-day waiting period for gun purchases.
Circuit Court Overextends on Second Amendment :: 09/01/2015
In June of this year, a three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the case of an illegal alien who had appealed his conviction on a federal firearms offense for possessing a bullet. (There is evidence he also had the gun itself in his possession earlier in the evening of his arrest, though it wasn't on him when taken into custody.)
Citizens Taking Video of Police See Themselves Facing Arrest :: 08/31/2015
Thomas Demint's voice is heard only briefly on the eight-minute video he took of police officers arresting two of his friends, and body-slamming their mother. "I'm videotaping this, sir," he tells an officer. "I'm just videotaping this."
New Law Will Allow Concealed Carry Permit Holders To Force Review Of Gun Ban Signs :: 08/31/2015
On Tuesday, a new law takes effect to address the concern that some government owned/affiliated businesses and attractions in Texas ban concealed carry on their premises in a manner reserved for privately-owned establishments.
Feds fighting to keep cash seized from person never charged with crime :: 08/29/2015
Federal prosecutors are battling in court to keep $167,000 in cash seized in a 2013 traffic stop, despite the motorist never being charged in the incident and the Obama administration clamped down this spring on such asset seizures and forfeitures.
Prosecutor: Ruling preventing felons from carrying guns a 'victory' :: 08/29/2015
A recent Missouri Supreme Court decision has closed a loophole in state law that prosecutors feared would allow some felons to carry guns.
California Gun Dealers Fire First in Ninth :: 08/27/2015
California – -(Ammoland.com)- Attorneys for four California gun dealers filed an opening brief on Monday that asks the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to strike down a law that, they argue, is unconstitutional and violates their First Amendment speech rights.
7th Circuit Court: Illegal Immigrants Have Second Amendment Rights Too :: 08/26/2015
In a case regarding a specific gun control law which bans “unauthorized aliens” (illegal immigrants) from possessing firearms in the United States, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit did the work of a contortionist by upholding the law while also pointing out that they “see no principled way to carve out the Second Amendment and say that the unauthorized (or maybe all noncitizens) are excluded.”
Cody Wilson's 3D Printed Liberator Lawsuit on Its Way to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals :: 08/26/2015
The landmark lawsuit against the United States State Department filed by gun rights advocate Cody Wilson and the creator of the 3D printed Liberator pistol continues to gain steam, even after a recent setback.
Open Carry Group Suing DPS Over Arrests :: 08/25/2015
The state's new Open Carry law is set to take effect in January, but it is obvious that the new law won't ease the tensions between police and groups which call for what is called 'Constitutional Carry,' or the right to carry weapons in public, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.
SAF, NSSF, NRA Team Up in Lawsuit Against Seattle's Firearms Tax :: 08/25/2015
The City of Seattle recently enacted a tax on all firearms and ammunition. There was no point to this tax other than to inconvenience lawful gun owners by making them pay more money to enjoy a constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms (and driving lawful retail businesses from the city.
California city seizes woman's guns over husband's mental health :: 08/24/2015
The city of San Jose seized Lori Rodriguez’s guns after her husband was forced to undergo a psychiatric exam, but now she wants them back contending that the seizure violates her Second Amendment rights.
Dismissal of Post-1986 Machine Gun Ban Challenge Appealed :: 08/23/2015
Notice of Appeal was filed Tuesday in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division, by plaintiff Jay Aubrey Isaac Hollis in his complaint against Attorney General Loretta Lynch and ATF Acting Director Thomas E. Brandon.
2A win could have greater implications for immigrants :: 08/22/2015
A Wisconsin appellate court on Thursday ruled that the right to keep and bear arms extends to all individuals in the United States, including “unauthorized aliens.”
SAF, Florida Carry Want Tallahassee Officials Fined :: 08/22/2015
BELLEVUE, WA – Attorneys for the Second Amendment Foundation and Florida Carry have asked a circuit court judge to assess fines of $5,000 against city officials in Tallahassee for failing to repeal local gun control ordinances that conflict with state law, the latest chapter in a legal action filed by the two organizations against the city in May of last year.
You have the right to bear arms, but what about "electrical" arms or stun guns? :: 08/22/2015
The intent of the Second Amendment is up for debate again. This time the controversy illuminates a modern-age quandary about whether "electrical" weapons like stun guns—or possibly even homemade 3D-printed weapons—are constitutionally protected.
Court Rules Against PA Atty. Gen. Kathleen Kane in Thomas Lawsuit :: 08/20/2015
Detective Claude Thomas wants his hearing and it looks like he is going to get it.
Missouri Supreme Court upholds ban on felons possessing firearms :: 08/20/2015
The Supreme Court of Missouri [official website] on Tuesday ruled [opinion, PDF] that a statute prohibiting convicted felons from possessing firearms does not violate the Missouri Constitution's [BallotPedia backgrounder] right to bear arms.
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