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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Homicides spike in DC and Baltimore, defying downward trend in other big cities :: 01/02/2019
Homicides surged about 40 percent last year in the nation's capital while nearby Baltimore continued to notch almost one killing per day — defying the downward trend in other big U.S. cities.
Judge Andrew Napolitano: How dumb are the politicians who want to remove your right to self-defense? :: 01/02/2019
Most of the mass killings by guns in the United States in recent years — Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Newtown, Charleston, San Bernardino and Orlando — took place in venues where local or state law prohibited carrying guns, even by those lawfully licensed to do so. The government cheerfully calls these venues “gun-free zones.” They should be called killing zones.
Police Seize More Than 450 Guns Under Florida's New Red-Flag Law :: 01/02/2019
Hundreds of gun owning Floridians have been ordered to surrender their firearms under a new ‘Red-Flag’ law signed by the governor just three weeks after a gunman entered Stoneman Douglas High School and opened fire.
Vermont Learns Police Can't Conduct NICS Checks. . .AFTER Passing Bill :: 01/02/2019
Vermont thought background checks were these easy things that anyone could get. The state passed a universal background check bill and figured all was well.
Florida Newspaper Publishes Exhaustive Parkland Report: Sheriff's Office Cost Children Their Lives :: 01/01/2019
Authorities and school officials either failed to act or were unclear about procedures when confronting the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Feb. 14, 911 logs, surveillance videos, and interviews show.
Preparing the next generation of Second Amendment Defenders :: 01/01/2019
U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- President Ronald Reagan famously said that “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” That is particularly true of our Second Amendment rights. The fact is, those who wish to enact an extreme anti-Second Amendment agenda have been working to reach the next generation of voters.
Dumbest Gun Laws Passed In 2018 :: 12/31/2018
Ah, here we are, the last day of 2018. The year started with such promise, only to run face-first into the semi of media bombardment and political squishiness.
Order that gun makers do impossible en route to Supremes :: 12/31/2018
Several organizations that advocate for the Second Amendment are taking to the U.S. Supreme Court a strategy by the state of California to impose literally impossible demands on gun makers to eventually eliminate their ability to market to customers in the state.
Wichita, KS Homicide Rate Up. . .Due To Self-Defense Killings :: 12/31/2018
Now that we have new statistics to look at regarding firearm-related deaths, it’s time we all get to play “poke the hole in the stupid.”
Year in Review: Major Pennsylvania and Federal Firearm Law Cases from 2018 :: 12/31/2018
As the year is coming to a close, we thought it important to document some of the monumental court decisions and issues that Firearms Industry Consulting Group® (FICG®), a division of Civil Rights Defense Firm, P.C., was involved in or obtained in 2018.
England: Police struggle to stop flood of firearms into UK :: 12/30/2018
Police and border officials are struggling to stop a rising supply of illegal firearms being smuggled into Britain, a senior police chief has warned.
Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail: What to do for the next Anti-gun President :: 12/30/2018
Washington, DC – -(AmmoLand.com)- Right now, in some ways, Second Amendment supporters should be feeling very good. We have seen two very strong pro-Second Amendment justices on the Supreme Court, making Chief Justice John Roberts – who voted to strike down the handgun bans in Chicago and Washington, D.C., the swing vote. We have a pro-Second Amendment president who is nominating more pro-Second Amendment judges, and a Senate that is confirming them.
On January 1, I become a criminal, for doing nothing :: 12/30/2018
It’s not the intolerance of progressives that is so insulting. It is the denial of their intolerance that is so abusive.
Red Flag Laws and Predictive Policing :: 12/30/2018
Red flag laws allow law enforcement personnel or family members to petition a judge to issue a restraining order to restrict a person’s access to firearms without that person being present. They require a full hearing to be scheduled quickly, to allow the gun owner to respond. A longer order can be issued during the full hearing if there is enough evidence that the person is dangerous.
Do Some Courts Underenforce the Second Amendment? :: 12/29/2018
This Fall, the Duke Law Journal held a symposium Heller at Ten: A Symposium on From Theory to Doctrine. All of the articles are, at least partially, responses to an article Eric Ruben and Joseph Blocher that analyzed data for all post-Heller cases, from 2008 until early 2016. From Theory to Doctrine: An Empirical Analysis of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms After Heller, 67 Duke L.J. 1433 (2018).
Firearms-related accident deaths PLUNGE 41Percent from 1999, but the media WON'T report the facts :: 12/29/2018
(Natural News) While recent headlines might lead you to believe that accidental deaths from firearms are at an all-time high, the fact is they are at their lowest in decades — but unfortunately, the so-called “mainstream” media won’t report the truth.
Red Flag Laws - A Way Around Repealing the 2nd Amendment :: 12/29/2018
In a previous article, I wrote about the effects that have happened when countries have confiscated or banned private gun ownership. That article sparked comments on how such a thing could never happen in the U.S. But for years, there has been a movement to restrict private gun ownership. Granted, no outright ban has been enacted, and few if any politicians would try to propose such a draconian measure, but there have been moves at the edges of the Second Amendment that have taken hold.
Trump's New Judges Are Everything Conservatives Hoped For And Liberals Feared :: 12/29/2018
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has gotten more judges confirmed to federal appeals courts in his first two years in office than any president in modern history. With 30 new circuit judges on the bench, and a dozen nominees pending in the Senate, Trump has more than made good on a campaign promise to reshape the judiciary.
7 facts about guns in the U.S. :: 12/28/2018
Guns are deeply ingrained in American society. The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives Americans the right to bear arms, and around three-in-ten American adults personally own a gun. Most of these gun owners say the right to own firearms is essential to their own personal sense of freedom.
A Historical Guide to the Freedom of Information Act :: 12/28/2018
Information has taken on a whole new meaning in the digital age, a time when sensitive data is either too easily accessible or not accessible enough. This issue of access to information encompasses fundamental human rights – specifically the freedom of speech as well as the right to privacy.
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