PA Bill Number: HB1472
Title: In primary and election expenses, further providing for reporting by candidate and political committees and other persons and for late contributions ...
Description: In primary and election expenses, further providing for reporting by candidate and political committees and other persons and for late contrib ...
Last Action: Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT
Last Action Date: Apr 22, 2024
Legal News
Challenge to Florida's open carry ban gets day in court :: 06/09/2016
The Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday heard a case dealing with how the state regulates the open carry of firearms.
2A win handed down in New Hampshire carry rights case :: 06/08/2016
The New Hampshire Supreme Court last week unanimously agreed with a gun rights advocate that recent rule changes affecting nonresident concealed carry permit holders went too far.
DC must let ex-prison guards pack heat, federal court rules :: 06/05/2016
Four former prison guards who were barred from carrying concealed guns despite a 2004 federal law that gave off-duty and retired law enforcement officers the right to pack heat won a landmark court victory on Thursday.
Judgment issued in Remington's M4 case :: 06/02/2016
A federal court Tuesday settled a dispute over a government contract awarded to Colt’s Manufacturing even though the company did not meet the fed’s prerequisites.
Kate Steinle's family files wrongful death suit over her shooting by alien with BLM gun :: 05/31/2016
Last July’s high profile murder of Kathryn Steinle as she was walking along San Francisco’s iconic Pier 14 with a gun stolen from a federal agent has wound up in court.
Federal Appeals Court Halts DC Gun Rights Ruling :: 05/28/2016
A federal appeals court has halted a ruling by a lower court that declared unconstitutional part of the current concealed carry law in Washington, D.C.
D.C. moves to appeal ruling shooting down concealed carry law :: 05/27/2016
The District’s Attorney General is moving quickly to appeal a federal judge’s ruling which last week blocked city officials from requiring gun owners to provide a “good reason” in order to get a permit to carry a concealed firearm in the nation’s capital.
Gun rights group sues over state law banning use of Assembly videos :: 05/27/2016
Second Amendment advocates are taking California officials into federal court arguing an obscure law preventing the use of videos taken during lawmaker debate violates the First Amendment.
Mossberg sues 12 companies over trigger patent :: 05/23/2016
Connecticut gun maker O.F. Mossberg & Sons sued 12 separate companies last week over alleged infringements of a patented trigger design.
Pennsylvania: Court hands gun permit holders win in privacy violation suit :: 05/23/2016
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – A Pennsylvania appeals court is reviving a lawsuit by four people with permits to carry concealed weapons who argue the sheriff shouldn’t be sending notices about their permits by postcards without envelopes.
Former owner of Stag Arms and the company fined and sentenced for machine gun violations :: 05/18/2016
BRIDGEPORT–The former owner of Stag Arms, as well as the company itself, has been sentenced and fined after pleading guilty to possession of a machine gun not registered to the company and failure to maintain firearm records.
Wisconsin court overturns conviction of AR-15 rifle-toting man :: 05/18/2016
MADISON, Wis. — A man who was walking near a school with a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle on his shoulder and a handgun in a holster had his loitering conviction overturned Tuesday by a Wisconsin appeals court, a victory for open carry advocates.
U.S. judge strikes down D.C. concealed-carry gun law as probably unconstitutional :: 05/17/2016
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a key provision of the District’s new gun law is probably unconstitutional, ordering D.C. police to stop requiring individuals to show “good reason” to obtain a permit to carry a firearm on the streets of the nation’s capital.
9th Circuit Court Court Rules That Right To Buy, Sell Guns Protected By 2A In SAF Case :: 05/16/2016
BELLEVUE, Wash., May 16, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A three-judge panel for the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a 2-1 ruling that "the right to purchase and sell firearms is part and parcel of the historically recognized right to keep and bear arms" protected by the Second Amendment in a case brought by the Second Amendment Foundation.
FLLs appeal in case of legal, pre-NFA machine gun serial number swap :: 05/13/2016
A group of gun dealers will have their cases heard by a federal appeals court after a jury found them guilty earlier this year of illegally altering and selling more than 30 illegal machine guns with the serial numbers of legal ones.
Glock Settles Negligent Discharge Case With Paralyzed Ex-LAPD Cop :: 05/12/2016
Sometimes, it’s simply more cost-effective for companies to settle a civil lawsuit with a payoff than it is to pay the crushing legal costs of defending yourself in court. It’s sad that being in the right is utterly irrelevant, but that’s simply the way our sue-happy civil court system in this Republic is regretfully designed to operate.
Appeals court hears challenge to Maryland's ban on 'assault weapons' :: 05/11/2016
A federal appeals court on Wednesday considered the legality of Maryland’s ban on certain semiautomatic firearms passed after the 2012 mass shooting at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school.
Man charged while open carrying files federal lawsuit :: 05/09/2016
A Minnesota gun owner is suing the city of St. Cloud and three police officials after he was arrested while walking in public with his rifle.
Man Sues St. Cloud Because He Got a Ticket After Carrying an AK47 in Public :: 05/06/2016
A growing number of Minnesotans have permits to carry firearms, according to numbers from the state. But one Minnesotan with a permit claims the City St. Cloud denied him his right.
Pennsylvania: Lansdale man charged with manslaughter in fatal church shooting :: 04/28/2016
NORRISTOWN >> A Lansdale man had no lawful justification to fatally shoot a fellow parishioner during a disturbance at a Montgomery Township church service where the victim was “only armed with his Bible,” authorities have concluded.
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