PA Bill Number: HB36
Title: In Office of State Inspector General, further providing for definitions and for powers, purpose and duties.
Description: In Office of State Inspector General, further providing for definitions and for powers, purpose and duties. ...
Last Action: Laid on the table
Last Action Date: Feb 4, 2025
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Auditor general pushes to reduce gun deaths, focusing on mental health resources :: 02/20/2019
Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale and Democratic state Rep. Mike Schlossberg of Lehigh County are calling for increased resources for mental health services. The two fielded questions during a Facebook town hall Tuesday.
Gun Control Advocates Use Aurora Shooting to Call for More Background Checks :: 02/20/2019
On Friday, another mass public shooting occurred in yet another gun-free zone. In fact, the Henry Pratt Company in Aurora, Illinois, where five people were killed on Friday, clearly displays a “no guns”sign on its frontdoor.
House Dems file 'Assault Weapons Ban of 2019' and that's just for starters :: 02/20/2019
House Democrats have introduced a plan to bring back the long-expired federal ban on “assault weapons” with a host of new tweaks.
John Lott Calls Out Anti-Gunners Capitalizing On Aurora, Il Shooting :: 02/20/2019
Whenever there’s a mass shooting of any kind, anti-gunners are going to start using it to push for their pet gun control projects. Right now, a lot of people are using the shooting in Aurora, Illinois on Friday to justify things like universal background checks.
Politicians Fighting Back With Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act Reform :: 02/20/2019
The Aurora, Ill., active shooter incident ended when police arrived and engaged the threat. Research shows that in most active shooter incidents — in both businesses and schools — the event ends when the suspect either commits suicide or the police arrive to end their murderous rampage. Yet while this reality plays out across America, some states choose to minimize the law enforcement officers’ response capability. Instead of trying to empower LEOs on the streets, many states have neutered those that could end a threat. How? By stripping away their guns and authority, in direct conflict with existing federal law — the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act.
CA's Gun Seizure Program Hits Major Snag :: 02/19/2019
The state of California doesn’t like guns and is probably gun control Utopia for anti-gun activists throughout the country. You know the kind of people I’m talking about, the ones who generally dream of the day they can round up all the guns and melt them down, rendering average, ordinary, law-abiding Americans defenseless.
Firearms Mufflers- politics trumps safety :: 02/19/2019
This will be our epitaph if the US fails as a country;
Gun Control Advocates and the Media Claim There's a School Shooting Epidemic. They Lie. :: 02/19/2019
The “gun violence prevention” movement and their media allies are in a frenzy this week to exploit the anniversary of last year’s Parkland Florida tragedy to stir a moral panic against the NRA and gun owners. As the survivors who advocate for gun control get lavish attention, it is helpful to put the “crisis” of school shootings into proper perspective.
California's gun seizure program hits hurdles :: 02/18/2019
Authorities in California are struggling to enforce a state law that permits officials to seize firearms from people with previous criminal convictions or mental health issues – running into staffing and budgetary issues that have contributed to a massive backlog of guns marked for confiscation.
Democrats reject push to alert ICE when illegal immigrants fail firearm background checks :: 02/17/2019
Democrats this week approved legislation to require background checks for essentially all sales and transfers of firearms -- but rejected GOP-led efforts to amend the legislation to alert law enforcement authorities when gun buyers, including illegal immigrants, fail those background checks.
Aurora, Illinois shooter wasn't legally allowed to own gun :: 02/16/2019
Gary Montez Martin, the man who opened fire inside a manufacturing company in Aurora, Illinois, legally should not have been in possession of a firearm, police said on Saturday.
Latest Gun Death Scorecard From Giffords Is Grossly Misleading :: 02/16/2019
For years the Giffords Law Center (GLC) has released its annual scorecard on how well states’ gun laws match its bias toward more infringement of the Second Amendment. It then “proves” that those infringements of law-abiding citizens’ rights reduce “gun deaths” in those states. Its latest release illustrates the point.
When People Claim There's No Media Bias Against Guns, Show This :: 02/16/2019
There is an idea out there that the media isn’t biased against guns. After all, I’ve heard argued, Hollywood has a love affair with guns. Just look at how many they use in their movies. There’s no way they’re anti-gun.
Advice from a Russian: Never Give Up Your Guns :: 02/15/2019
These days, there are few things to admire about the socialist, bankrupt and culturally degenerating U.S.A., but at least so far, one thing remains: the right to bear arms and use deadly force to defend one’s self and possessions.
Gun Control Group Attorney Suggests Breaking Gun Laws :: 02/15/2019
Gun control advocates regularly claim that gun laws work. They supposedly keep guns from going to people they shouldn’t. They swear it with all the vehemence they can muster.
Pelosi Threatens National Emergency For Guns :: 02/15/2019
President Trump is going to have his border wall, he says, even if he has to declare a national emergency to build the blasted thing. Doing so would free up money that he can more or less use at his discretion. While he’d probably rather not, he’s willing to do it.
Supreme Court Picks up Speed on Second Amendment Cases :: 02/15/2019
Is the Supreme Court building momentum when it comes to the Second Amendment?
Missouri Bills Take on Federal Gun Control: Past, Present and Future :: 02/14/2019
JEFFERSON CITY. Mo. (Feb. 11, 2019) – Bills introduced in the Missouri legislature would set the foundation to create a “gun rights sanctuary state” by banning state and local enforcement of most federal gun control. Passage into law would represent a major step toward ending federal acts that infringe on the right to keep and bear arms within the state in practice and effect.
PA Township Police Call License Plate Scanners a "Game Changer" :: 02/14/2019
The police department in Upper Gwynedd township are very enthusiastic about their new high-tech police surveillance device: an automated licence plate reader, or ALPR, with it’s ability to scan and identify 3,600 plates per minute. But what happens with all the data for which there are no “hits”. That data still lives somewhere.
Peduto: I'll defend gun proposals to Supreme Court :: 02/14/2019
Mayor Bill Peduto remained defiant in his support of the city’s proposed gun restrictions a day after they were pilloried at a special fact-finding meeting, saying Wednesday that he’s willing to fight any lawsuit against the city as high as the U.S. Supreme Court.
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