PA Bill Number: SB1198
Title: In plants and plant products, providing for plant and pollinator protection; conferring powers and duties on the Department of Agriculture and ...
Description: In plants and plant products, providing for plant and pollinator protection; conferring powers and duties on the Department of Agriculture and .. ...
Last Action: Referred to AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS
Last Action Date: May 17, 2024
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Trahan: Background check law would be first step in a firearm registry :: 05/23/2016
Earlier this year one of the writers for the Sportman’s Alliance of Maine newsletter wanted to take his two young sons turkey hunting. All his firearms were too big for the boys, so I offered my friend one of my youth model 20-gauge shotguns as a loaner and he accepted. Months later his 9-year-old son harvested his first tom turkey, and a few days later my friend returned my firearm without incident.
Clinton to Trayvon Martin Foundation conference: Trump's dangerous pro-gun policies way out there :: 05/22/2016
Hillary Clinton accused Donald Trump of pandering to the gun lobby in a speech to a conference Saturday, organized by the Trayvon Martin Foundation to help families of gun violence victims, warning the audience about a Trump presidency that would put more children “at risk of violence and bigotry.”
Furniture firepower: Gun sales drive specialty concealment craze :: 05/21/2016
Rising gun sales have triggered a new trend in furniture fashion -- coffee tables, cabinets, headboards and hutches with secret compartments for firearms.
How D.C.s Gun Laws Will Increase Concealed Carry Permits Across The Nation :: 05/21/2016
Growing up in California taught me one thing: gun control advocates will do everything in their power to stifle the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens, myself included. In high school, I was teased for going to the gun range with my dad.
Krauthammer: Clinton's gun control argument rather tepid - Trump's stance is strong. :: 05/21/2016
Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer told viewers Friday on “Special Report with Bret Baier” that following the National Rifle Association’s endorsement of Donald Trump, the issue of gun control in the general election will likely be a winning one for the New York businessman– and a net loss for likely opponent Hillary Clinton.
Libertarian Nominee on the Koch Brothers and Being a Trump Alternative :: 05/21/2016
The day Ted Cruz dropped out of the Republican primary, Google searches for "Gary Johnson" went through the roof. Johnson, the pro-pot former Republican governor of New Mexico, took home one percent of the nationwide vote as the Libertarian candidate for president in 2012. This year he thinks his chances are much better.
PA: Reading police officer surrenders on criminal charges :: 05/21/2016
A Reading police officer has surrendered to authorities on criminal charges.
Rand Paul: I'll Be Damned! Before Government Takes Guns from Veterans :: 05/21/2016
The avid proponent of American liberty and individualism, Sen. Rand Paul took the stage at the NRA-ILA forum and spoke of our natural right to own and bear arms.
2nd Amendment Court Case Victor: Armed Queers Do Not Get Bashed :: 05/20/2016
The gay gun rights group Pink Pistols, a plaintiff in the Washington, DC, case that resulted in a pro-self-defense ruling on May 17, contends that “armed queers don’t get bashed.”
NRA-backed Trump will get rid of gun-free zones :: 05/20/2016
The National Rifle Association officially backed presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to the amplified applause of convention-goers Friday, during the group’s annual meetings in Louisville, Kentucky.
Real Facts About School & Other Mass Shooting Defense Tactics :: 05/20/2016
USA –-(Ammoland.com)- What if I told you that all of the mass and school shootings over the past 20 years or so could have been done, to equal effect, by a murderer using a 150-year old lever action rifle?
Trump's Supreme Court list: all conservative, some provocative :: 05/20/2016
WASHINGTON William Pryor, in urging the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003 to uphold a Texas law banning gay sex, argued against the notion that the U.S. Constitution should safeguard a person's choice of partners.
Weld may pass anti-Trump muster but can he win Libertarians? :: 05/20/2016
BOSTON – Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, tapped as a running mate by Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson, is no fan of presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump’s stance on immigration issues.
12,000 Guns Stolen from Stores Over Past 2 Years :: 05/19/2016
A masked thief smashed through the glass door of GTX Guns in Georgetown, Texas early in the morning of May 9. In just 7 seconds he was off with an armful of guns.
AmmoLand Exclusive: Donald Trump Promised Terry Brother Answers on Fast and Furious :: 05/19/2016
USA -(Ammoland.com)- The brother of a slain Border Patrol agent says Donald Trump has promised answers about the Operation Fast and Furious “gunwalking” program leading to Brian Terry’s death. Kent Terry met with Trump, and says the presumptive Republican nominee will use his authority to act if he’s elected president, Terry said in a Twitter post Tuesday.
Grassley: Vets Fought to Protect Constitutional Rights, Don't Take Away Those Rights :: 05/19/2016
Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today expressed disgust that Senate Democrats were objecting to a vote on his amendment to ensure that veterans don’t lose their Second Amendment rights because of a constitutionally questionable process used by the Department of Veterans Affairs for reporting names to the federal National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).
Gun Ownership: A New Medical Illness? :: 05/19/2016
When Dr. Rosemary Fernandez Stein sees patients at her pediatric practice in Burlington, North Carolina, she asks parents the usual run of questions. There’s one she would prefer not to have to ask, though: “Do you have a gun in your home?”
Immigration Hawks: Facebook Engaging in Deliberate Suppression of Our Content :: 05/19/2016
In the past week, there has been much discussion about the allegation that Facebook is censoring its “trending” news stories based on political ideology. However, advocates for curbing immigration into the United States say that this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Mass destruction :: 05/19/2016
Arguments with gun control advocates often require weeding through profligate fallacies and false or misleading claims of facts. One example of this is the attempt to classify firearms as weapons of mass destruction. This is akin to the slovenly usage of “assault rifle” and is an effort to substitute emotionalism for careful thinking on the subject of guns in America.
Bavarians rush for non-lethal weapons licenses :: 05/18/2016
In the first three months of 2016 the number of people who applied for so-called small weapons licences in Bavaria was already double the number for the whole of 2015.
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