PA Bill Number: HB917
Title: Adopting the Uniform Family Law Arbitration Act.
Description: Adopting the Uniform Family Law Arbitration Act. ...
Last Action: Presented to the Governor
Last Action Date: Apr 29, 2024
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Pennsylvania state lawmakers join calls to ban bump stock :: 10/10/2017
state Sen. Pat Browne, R-Lehigh, has proposed a bill to institute a Pennsylvania ban on bump stocks, a firearm attachment used to turn a semi-automatic weapon into a fully automatic. A man used a similar device in an Oct. 1 massacre in Las Vegas. (Morning Call file photo)
Why aren't bump fire stocks regulated like machine guns? :: 10/10/2017
Details about bump stocks and machine guns have been making headlines across the country after the Las Vegas shooting, but what are those laws and why don’t they cover bump stocks?
Why words matter: Describing Las Vegas as the deadliest mass shooting may not hold against history :: 10/10/2017
Before carrying out his carnage alongside Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold boasted on video that they intended to inflict "the most deaths in U.S. history."
CPRC: Comparing murder rates and gun ownership across countries :: 10/09/2017
Charles Blow in the New York Times last year made the very common argument: “America has the highest gun homicide rate, the highest number of guns per capita . . . .” In another story, the New York Times quotes researcher David Hemenway as claiming: “Generally, if you live in a civilized society, more guns mean more death.” CNN’s Piers Morgan believes: “America has the worst incidents of gun murders of any of what they call the civilized world.” Bloomberg’s Businessweek also made similar claims this spring. The one common feature for these claims is that they rely on the Small Arms Survey.
Feinstein: no gun laws could have prevented Las Vegas massacre :: 10/09/2017
California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein said no laws could have prevented the Las Vegas massacre last week that took the lives of 58 people and injured more than 500.
MSNBC Doesn't Understand Why Conservatives Insist Our Rights Come from God :: 10/09/2017
Yesterday, MSNBC host Chris Matthews was incredulous that Conservatives actually believe that the rights found in the Constitution come from God.
Ohio gun groups split with NRA, say don't ban bump stocks :: 10/09/2017
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio gun groups say they oppose any bans on a gun accessory called bump stocks used by the Las Vegas mass shooter to turn semi-automatic rifles into rapid-fire automatic weapons.
The Gun-Ban Fetish :: 10/09/2017
Banning guns invariably leads to an increase in the murder rate. Is support for gun ownership and the Second Amendment a “fetish”? Bret Stephens, a New York Times columnist, sure thinks so.
I used to think gun control was the answer. My research told me otherwise. :: 10/08/2017
Before I started researching gun deaths, gun-control policy used to frustrate me. I wished the National Rifle Association would stop blocking common-sense gun-control reforms such as banning assault weapons, restricting silencers, shrinking magazine sizes and all the other measures that could make guns less deadly.
Las Vegas Shooting Survivors Say No to Gun Control :: 10/08/2017
Last Easter, Brian Fraser went to a Walmart and spent $200 to buy every nerf gun in the store for an all-out-family-nerf battle. He was an avid hunter and fisherman who passed on his love of the outdoors to his four children. So it wasn't unusual that when he went to the Route 91 Harvest Festival music festival on the Las Vegas Strip, he wore a T-shirt that said "I call shotgun," emblazoned with a picture of a shotgun on it.
6 Reasons Your Right-Wing Friend Isn't Budging On Gun Control :: 10/07/2017
I’ve seen my friends and colleagues on the Left side of the gun control debate dumbfounded at why Second Amendment advocates don’t seem to budge on their views after mass shootings. So I thought I would try my hand at explaining this phenomenon in the hopes that maybe more will be inclined to have a better conversation about guns and the Second Amendment in America. There are several reasons 2A advocates aren’t running to your side of the argument, and it might not be the ones you think.
Las Vegas Reaction Shows Risk of Con-Con to Second Amendment :: 10/07/2017
The reaction to the Las Vegas shooting demonstrates the dangers of an Article V Constitutional Convention to the Second Amendment’s protection of our right to keep and bear arms. With even many members of Congress who have been public champions of the Second Amendment wavering, we must ask, if you are a supporter of the right to keep and bear arms, would you want to see an Article V Constitutional Convention in session during this highly-charged moment?
Obama Study Concluded Firearms Used for Self-Defense 'Important Crime Deterrent' :: 10/07/2017
“Self-defense can be an important crime deterrent,” concluded a study by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) mandated via executive order by President Barack Obama. The findings also question the effectiveness of gun-control measures.
Pa. lawmakers move to ban 'bump stocks' :: 10/07/2017
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – To many who heard the videotapes of the worst mass killing in modern U.S. history, the sound was distinct and they would swear it was automatic gunfire.
Why Republican Politicians Ignore Gun Owners :: 10/07/2017
Republican politicians ignore gun owners for two prominent reasons. Money and political factionalism have marginalized the gun vote. The Republican leadership would rather oppose President Trump than support the grassroots.
Bannon warns of the 'end of everything' if Trump supports gun control :: 10/06/2017
Stephen Bannon, former White House Chief Strategist and current executive chairman of Breitbart News, warned of a major backlash if President Donald Trump supported gun control legislation after the mass shooting in Las Vegas.
Come and Take Them :: 10/06/2017
The idea that gun-control advocates don't want to confiscate your weapons is, of course, laughable. They can't confiscate your weapons, so they support whatever feasible incremental steps inch further toward that goal. Some folks are more considerate and get right to the point.
GOA: Bump stock ban opposed by Gun Owners of America, despite NRA stance :: 10/06/2017
"Gun Owners of America opposes a ban on bump stocks,” Executive Director Erich Pratt said in a statement, noting that the Obama administration’s ATF allowed the devices “to help gun owners with disabilities fire their weapons.”
Michael Moore proposes repeal, replacement of 2nd Amendment :: 10/06/2017
Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore has proposed a so-called 28th Amendment on gun control meant to repeal and replace the 2nd Amendment after the mass shooting in Las Vegas Sunday night left 59 dead and almost 500 injured.
Nothing Makes Liberals Angrier Than Us Normals Insisting On Our Rights :: 10/06/2017
I don’t agree with liberals often, because I’m not an idiot and because I love America, but when they once again say, “We must have a conversation about guns!” I still couldn’t agree more. And, since all we’ve heard is you leftists shrieking at us all week, I’ll start it off.
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