PA Bill Number: HB335
Title: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons.
Description: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons. ...
Last Action: Removed from table
Last Action Date: May 1, 2024
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When Laws Collide: Federal Preemption and State Firearm Freedom Acts :: 02/03/2017
For the last several years, so-called “Firearms Freedom Acts” or “Second Amendment Preservation Acts” have attracted a lot of attention. Such legislation, passed or introduced in various states, seeks to make federal laws regarding firearms inapplicable to firearms and ammunition produced, sold, and used exclusively within the state’s borders on the premise that Congress’s power to regulate commerce among the states doesn’t reach purely in-state activities.
Constitutional Carry: New Hampshire constitutional carry bill makes it out of House committee :: 02/02/2017
New Hampshire’s constitutional carry bill is now one step closer to becoming law after being voted out of the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee on Wednesday.
House voted to reverse Obama background check rule :: 02/02/2017
The Republican-controlled House voted 235-180 on Thursday to scrap a measure submitted by the Obama administration to prohibit some Social Security recipients from owning firearms.
Tracing Judge Gorsuch's Paper Trail On The Second Amendment :: 02/02/2017
“The Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to own firearms and may not be infringed lightly.” So wrote U.S. Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch in United States v. Miguel Games-Perez. That case demonstrates why Judge Gorsuch is a worthy successor to Justice Antonin Scalia.
A Closer Look at Neil Gorsuch :: 02/01/2017
Tuesday night, President Donald Trump announced his nomination for the Supreme Court vacancy left by the unexpected death of Justice Antonin Scalia last February.
Chicago 'Scholar' Claims Militias Would Be 'Toast' if Resisting Military Coup :: 02/01/2017
U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- “What would happen in the minutes and hours after a coup in America?” Mike Pearl of Vice Media asks in a bit of “progressive” wishful thinking sprinkled with multiple hollow disclaimers.
DRGO: JAMA Internal Medicine January 2017: The Unbearable Lightness of Anti-Gun Research :: 02/01/2017
The editors of a number of medical journals are gun nuts. Not nuts about guns, but guns must drive them nuts.
Jeff Sessions Confirmation Vote: Blue-Dog Democrats Face Tough Choice :: 02/01/2017
The ongoing delays before a final vote on Jeff Sessions’s nomination for attorney general should give vulnerable Senate Democrats extra time to bite their nails.
Study points to link in school shootings and economic insecurity :: 02/01/2017
Researchers at Northwestern University published the results of a study Monday which appear to indicate the number of school shootings occurring at both secondary schools and colleges increase during times of economic insecurity.
You Won't Believe Who This Gun Control Advocate Said is More Dangerous Than Refugees :: 02/01/2017
Former Arizona Representative and Americans for Responsible Solutions co-founder Gabby Giffords is referencing President Trump’s executive order on immigration to drum up donations and highlight a more dangerous threat to citizens than refugees.
A gun-crime tool that works :: 01/31/2017
President Trump threatened last week to send the “feds” in to clean up Chicago if the city doesn’t do something to reduce the escalating murder rate that has made the gang-infested Windy City among the most dangerous metropolitan areas in the world. What the president doesn’t seem to realize is that he has the tools to deal with the crisis without so drastic a step.
Congress once ran the local D.C. government. GOP signals that it may do so again. :: 01/31/2017
The House committee that oversees the District plans to exercise its authority over the nation’s capital more aggressively than at any time in decades, reviewing local laws and spending decisions to ensure they are “in line with Congressional mandates and federal law.”
CPRC Original Research: All but one of the 20 worst mass public shootings, 45 of the worst 50, occurred outside the United States :: 01/31/2017
LAST UPDATED: January 30, 2017; April 29, 2016 (original post June 28, 2015) (Detailed discussion on Europe and the rest of the world can be found in Dr. Lott’s new book, The War on Guns. Some other information on Europe is available here):
Gun control advocates, opponents (FOAC) face off in Legislature and elsewhere :: 01/31/2017
There is no debate that gun violence – whether gang-related, terrorism-inspired, lone wolf attacks or suicides – must be stopped. It’s the question of how to achieve that goal that has long caused legislative stalemates at all levels of government around the country. Pennsylvania is no exception.
If you want to see academics making fools of themselves, look at Jeff Sessions' confirmation hearings :: 01/31/2017
The headline on the front page of the Washington Post sure sounded impressive: “More than 1,100 law school professors nationwide oppose Sessions’s nomination as attorney general.” Since then, the total has increased to 1,424 faculty members from 180 law schools in 49 different states.
PA Game Commission Preliminarily Approves The Use Of Semiautomatic Rifles and Shotguns While Hunting Big Game, Small Game and Furbearers :: 01/31/2017
After the public hearings that occurred from January 29th through today, January 31, 2017, the Pennsylvania Game Commission announced:
Pennsylvania Game Commission meeting on new semi-auto rifle rules :: 01/31/2017
Conservation officials are meeting this week in Harrisburg to hear public comment on proposed new rules for the use of air rifles and semi-auto rifles in hunting.
Social Security gun rule targeted for Republican repeal :: 01/31/2017
House Republicans will move this week to wipe out a series of rules finalized in the closing days of the Obama administration, including one that could prevent certain Social Security recipients from purchasing guns.
Do Americans want to buy 'smart' guns? :: 01/30/2017
Recently legislators and special interest groups have pushed for greater availability of “smart” guns as a safety and crime-reduction tool. Then-President Barack Obama called for more research into “smart” gun technology in January 2016, and that April issued a memorandum calling for government-led research into smart guns as well as potential use by some federal agencies.
Gun-free school zones face demise under Trump administration :: 01/30/2017
The idea was viewed as radical by many when National Rifle Association head Wayne LaPierre advanced it after the Sandy Hook shooting, but it has continued to gain momentum, especially after it came out of President Trump’s mouth on the campaign trail.
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