PA Bill Number: HB2453
Title: Designating the bridge, identified as Bridge Key 5059, carrying State Route 2021 over Mineral Springs Creek in the City of Reading, Berks County, as ...
Description: Designating the bridge, identified as Bridge Key 5059, carrying State Route 2021 over Mineral Springs Creek in the City of Reading, Berks County ...
Last Action: Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS
Last Action Date: Jul 1, 2024
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The Biased Press Echoes Political Spin and Ignores the Deadly Results of Gun Control :: 03/05/2021
Politicians say one thing and do another. They give us their best smile as they claim that up is down. A skeptical press is supposed to ask tough questions and see through the politician’s spin. Reporters are supposed to get at the truth even if it is uncomfortable. I suspect it is easier to make a politician uncomfortable than for reporters to question their own beliefs. Gun control legislation is a sad example where both the politicians and the media are spinning the truth. Unfortunately, we see that happen from coast to coast and in-between. Since the mainstream press won’t do it, it is up to us to separate the grain of truth from the flood of political spin. Here are a few examples of the work the news media failed to do.
Imposing Massachusetts Gun Laws on Rest of Country Relies on Selective Deception :: 03/04/2021
U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- “As Massachusetts shows, strong gun-safety laws work,” a Thursday Boston Globe editorial by columnist Scot Lehigh claims. “Other states should follow suit.”
Military Massacres Civilians In "Gun-Free" Myanmar :: 03/04/2021
At least 38 unarmed protesters in Myanmar were shot and killed by the military on Wednesday, as CNN declared that the country is now a “war zone.” I’d argue that a war actually involves two sides shooting at each other. What we’re witnessing in Myanmar at the moment is a massacre, because civilians aren’t shooting back. In fact, in Myanmar they’re not even allowed to possess a firearm.
Scalia's Critical Error As The 2nd Amendment Literally Requires Military Weapons Ownership by Citizens :: 03/04/2021
“We conclude … that the banned assault weapons and large-capacity magazines are not protected by the Second Amendment,” Bill Clinton nominee and 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Robert King wrote in the opinion to Kolbe v. Hogan, a challenge to the State of Maryland’s “assault weapons” ban. “That is, we are convinced that the banned assault weapons and large-capacity magazines are among those arms that are ‘like’ ‘M-16 rifles’—'weapons that are most useful in military service’—which the Heller Court singled out as being beyond the Second Amendment's reach.
So much for 'armed insurrection': FBI official says no guns confiscated at Jan. 6 Capitol riot :: 03/04/2021
An FBI official had some bad news for Democrats at a congressional hearing Wednesday on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Dan Wos: There is "No Such Thing as Gun-Violence" :: 03/03/2021
USA -(AmmoLand.com)- The term “gun-violence” is at the center of the political left’s anti-gun fear-campaign. The entire gun-grab agenda is based on this one nomenclature. Sure, they use several other talking points like “assault weapon,” “weapons of war,” and “high capacity,” but the term “gun-violence” is the “big Daddy” term that get’s the most attention. How did the term “gun-violence” become such a talking point in our culture even when it doesn’t actually exist? What is “gun-violence” anyway? First, let’s get some clear definitions of the words themselves.
NPR Wonders If Gun Sales Caused Crime Spike :: 03/03/2021
And the answer, at least according to the researchers that NPR reporter Martin Kaste spoke to, appears to be “probably not, maybe a little, but we really don’t know.”
Strong February Gun Sales Keep Ammo Scarce On Store Shelves :: 03/03/2021
The Great Gun Run of 2020 has continued into 2021, with estimates of more than 1.3-million firearms sold last month. The National Shooting Sports Foundation released its adjusted NICS figures on Tuesday evening, and the firearms industry trade group reports that background checks on gun purchases were up 7-percent compared to February of 2020.
U.S. Guns-to-Mexico Reports Suggests 'Deja Vu All Over Again' :: 03/03/2021
U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- “Mexican cartels such as CJNG or Jalisco New Generation and Sinaloa cartels are arming themselves with military-grade weapons,” Fox News 29 San Antonio reports. “And the Mexican government is saying most of these destructive weapons, such as AK-47 and M-16 are coming from the United States.
Democrats and Their Imaginary Gun 'Loopholes' :: 03/02/2021
These are almost always euphemisms used by Democrats defending laws they wish existed but do not.
Democrats Start Their Push For Gun Control: 1st Attack- Universal Background Checks :: 03/02/2021
U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- House Democrats, aided by three Republicans, on Tuesday announced the introduction of H.R. 8, the so-called “Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021,” confirming reports from a day earlier that the House of Representatives under Speaker Nancy Pelosi would soon be launching a full-court press on gun control.
Pennsylvania Democrat Has Right Idea To Fight Crime :: 03/02/2021
While Philadephia Mayor Jim Kenney, D.A. Larry Krasner, and other city officials have demanded that the GOP-controlled legislature in Harrisburg approve a number of gun control bills (including a ban on modern sporting rifles), a freshman Democrat is offering up a piece of legislation that would do far more to improve public safety and reduce violent crime in the city, without infringing on the rights of law-abiding residents.
The Gun Control Advocates Mantra: "Police violence is gun violence" :: 03/02/2021
With the movement to defund police all the rage, gun-control activists now don’t trust police with guns. The Trace, a Bloomberg-funded outlet dedicated to gun-control advocacy, is probably at odds with police in part because officers are so overwhelmingly in favor of gun ownership. Just in the last month, it’s published articles with such headlines as, “An Arkansas Cop Said He’d Shoot at Protestors. Then He Killed a Fellow Cop,” and “The ‘Warrior Cop’ Is a Toxic Mentality. And a Lucrative Industry.” And it advocates for disarming police, claiming that American officers kill civilians at higher rates than those in countries where law enforcement is unarmed.
Anti-Gun Activists Try To Pin Rise In Crime On Legal Gun Owners :: 03/01/2021
Earlier today my colleague Tom Knighton reported on the claims by media that “mass shootings” rose dramatically in 2020, which I see as part of a broader trend by anti-gun activists to promote the narrative that the Great Gun Run of 2020 (which has now become the Great Gun Run of 2021) is somehow responsible for the rise in violent crime that we’ve seen in most parts of the United States over the past year.
Below The Radar – Closing the Loophole on Interstate Firearm Sales Act :: 03/01/2021
Washington D.C. – -(AmmoLand.com)- To anti-Second Amendment extremists, anything that allows a law-abiding American citizen to exercise their Second Amendment rights is a “loophole.” Second Amendment supporters, though, often find people questioning this mindset – often because they don’t know the current laws, how little they are enforced, or what anti-Second Amendment extremists ultimately want to subject this country to.
Below The Radar – LEAD Act :: 03/01/2021
United States – -(AmmoLand.com)- Attacks on our right to keep and bear arms don’t just take the form of gun bans or universal background checks. If anything, anti-Second Amendment extremists have always been scheming to find ways to make it harder to exercise our rights, and some of them are quite diabolical in the way many Second Amendment supporters do not see them coming.
Chicago Tribune Devotes Front-Page Story To Rise In Black Gun Owners :: 03/01/2021
It’s become impossible to ignore the fact that Americans of all races, colors, and creeds are embracing their Second Amendment right to own a firearm for self-defense, but it’s still surprising to see the Chicago Tribune give the issue the front-page treatment, as it did on Monday with a lengthy profile on the growing number of black gun owners in Chicago.
Do Gun Control Laws Lead To More Gun Sales? :: 02/28/2021
Until the Great Gun Run of 2020, which was prompted by COVID stay-at-home orders, an increase in violent crime, and civil unrest after the death of George Floyd sparked riots in many American cities, I would have said that nothing creates a spike in gun sales like a sustained push for new gun control laws. When anti-gun politicians try to crack down on the supply of firearms, it typically ends up creating even more demand for them. That’s why Barack Obama was widely credited as being the gun salesman of the year in 2013, when his post-Sandy Hook push for new gun controls helped create what was at the time one of the biggest surges in gun sales in our nation’s history.
Tennessee Governor Says Constitutional Carry A Priority :: 02/28/2021
The election of Joe Biden may end up being the best thing that ever happened to the Constitutional Carry movement. As Democrats in Washington, D.C. press for more federal gun laws, a growing number of states are taking action to ensure that legal gun owners can carry a firearm without getting a permission slip from the state government.
John Stuart Mill Quotes on Liberty, Utilitarianism, and More :: 02/27/2021
“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
– One of the better John Stuart Mill quotes
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