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: Removed from table
Last Action Date: Feb 5, 2025
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Pittsburgh Mayor Declares Intent To Ban Guns In Violation Of State Law :: 12/21/2018
Friday, Pittsburgh Mayor William Peduto held a press conference to propose a trio of anti-gun city ordinances that, if enacted, would constitute a direct violation of Pennsylvania’s state firearms preemption law and Pennsylvania Supreme Court precedent. At the event, Peduto was joined by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, who benefitted from $500,000 in spending from Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety during his 2018 re-election bid, and City Council members Corey O’Connor and Erika Strassburger.
Planning Our Way to Safer Schools and Churches :: 12/21/2018
Protecting innocent people is serious business. Smart men and women gave it a lot of thought. We now know a lot about mass murderers. We know how to prevent some of their attacks on our schools and churches. Unfortunately, we don’t know enough to stop all of them and we probably never will.
Why Isn't the NRA Screaming About the Bump Stock Ban? :: 12/21/2018
More than a year after the Las Vegas massacre — the deadliest modern mass shooting in America — the Trump administration is using existing law to ban bump stocks, attachments that turn semi-automatic rifles into automatic weapons. The updated rule by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (ATF) “clarifies that bump-stock-type devices are machineguns,” which have been outlawed for decades.
Baltimore Woman To Use Buyback Cash To Buy Bigger Gun :: 12/20/2018
So-called gun buyback programs are one of those things that make me roll my eyes so hard I can see my brain. They’re absolutely ridiculous. Anti-gun zealots continue to use taxpayer dollars to fund them, despite there being no evidence that they work to reduce crime.
California's Background Check Law Had No Impact on Gun Deaths, Johns Hopkins Study Finds :: 12/20/2018
A new academic study has found that, once again, gun laws are not having their desired effect. A joint study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of California at Davis Violence Prevention Research Program found that California’s much-touted mandated background checks had no impact on gun deaths, and researchers are puzzled as to why.
House Democrats Promise New Gun-control Laws :: 12/20/2018
Elections have consequences, and the retaking of the House of Representatives during the 2018 midterm elections is a perfect illustration of it. Several House Democrats are vowing to use their new majority in the House to enact additional controls on guns, which raises several issues.
It's Coming: Pelosi Says House Democrats Will Be Bold And Decisive Pushing Anti-Gun Nonsense :: 12/20/2018
Well, this was coming. If Democrats retaking the House wasn’t bad enough this year, the anti-gun trash they’re going to be spewing is probably going to be an even more insufferable event. The Left’s economic agenda is tax and spend. It’s riddled with regulations. Consumer and small business confidence could drop. It could usher in the Pelosi crash, but first—they need to lay the groundwork to the destruction of the Second Amendment (via Politico):
Police Have No Duty to Protect You, Federal Court Affirms Yet Again :: 12/20/2018
Following last February's shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, some students claimed local government officials were at fault for failing to provide protection to students. The students filed suit, naming six defendants, including the Broward school district and...
Police Militarization: A Guide to the True Weapons of War on Our Streets :: 12/20/2018
The claim often heard from those attempting to pass more gun control legislation is that all they’re trying to do is get the “weapons of war off our streets,” but it’s simply untrue that “weapons of war” are available to the general public. You’d last about three minutes in a conventional war with an AR-15, even with one of the most aggressive builds you can get your hands on (that doesn’t mean it’s impossible for guerilla uprisings to defeat powerful enemies). The truth is that the only people with “weapons of war” on America’s streets are, increasingly, the police.
Stab in the back: Gun activist hard-liners accuse Trump of betrayal over 'bump stock' ban :: 12/20/2018
President Trump's Tuesday announcement of a bump stock ban is upsetting members of a core constituency: gun owners wooed by his effusive campaign-trail vows to defend the Second Amendment, with two groups promising to see Trump in court.
Gun Control - Do Facts Matter To Politicians And Judges? Do guns make us less safe? :: 12/19/2018
U.S.A. -(Ammoland.com)- The people with the greatest need for self-protection are denied the tools they need to keep their family safe. That is the real face of gun-control, but that isn’t what we were sold by politicians. That isn’t what judges tell us. We’re told that disarming you and leaving guns in the hands of criminals is acceptable as long as politicians meant well. Do facts matter anymore?
Judge: Sheriff's Deputy Had No Duty To Protect Parkland Students :: 12/19/2018
Anti-gunners love to argue that we don’t need all of our guns. Quite a fair number will tell you that while you may feel the need to defend yourself, you shouldn’t. That’s what the police are for, they argue.
Pennsylvania Democrats Outraged Over Criminal Comparison :: 12/19/2018
There’s one thing Democrats are good at, and that’s outrage. They can find something to be outraged about at the drop of a hat. In fact, they’ll drop the hat themselves, just out of boredom.
FICG Files Complaint and Motion for Preliminary Injunction Challenging ATF's Final Rule on Bumpstocks :: 12/18/2018
Earlier today, the Department of Justice released the approved Final Rule on bumpstocks. As was expected, the Rule alters the definition of the term “machine gun” (in the regulations pertaining to the Gun Control Act and National Firearms Act) to include the following language
Sides prep for gun bill fight in city council :: 12/18/2018
Four gun rights advocates sat in the front row of council chambers and video recorded on their phones Tuesday as Pittsburgh City Council formally introduced three gun-control measures that could result in legal action against the city.
Venezuelans regret gun ban, 'a declaration of war against an unarmed population' :: 12/18/2018
CUCUTA, Venezuela/Colombia border – As Venezuela continues to crumble under the socialist dictatorship of President Nicolas Maduro, some are expressing words of warning – and resentment – against a six-year-old gun control bill that stripped citizens of their weapons.
Cops and schools had no duty to shield students in Parkland shooting, says judge who tossed lawsuit :: 12/17/2018
A federal judge says Broward schools and the Sheriff’s Office had no legal duty to protect students during the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Draconian Gun Control Does not Reduce Gun Numbers or Homicide Rates :: 12/17/2018
U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- A large number of people who wish to disarm the population start with the premise “If there weren't any guns”, as if, with extreme restrictions on owning and using guns, guns will eventually go away.
Feel-Good Laws are Getting Us Killed. . .and it's our fault. :: 12/17/2018
We are responsible for our actions. No one questions my responsibility if I’m negligent and hit you with my car. Are we also responsible for how someone feels? Does it injure you if I fly the US flag? How about if I own a gun or carry that gun in a place you find uncomfortable? We can pass laws that makes us feel better, but what should we do when these comfort-laws hurt people? Whose feelings take priority? It may seem unfair, but let me resort to facts for a minute.
FICG Files Letter on Behalf of ACSL and FOAC in Response to Pittsburgh's Proposed Illegal Firearm Ordinances :: 12/17/2018
Today, in advance of Pittsburgh City Council’s December 18th meeting to formally announce its illegal firearm proposals, Firearms Industry Consulting Group® (FICG®), a division of Civil Rights Defense Firm, P.C., on behalf of its clients, Allegheny County Sportsmen’s League and Firearm Owners Against Crime (FOAC), filed a letter in opposition to the proposals; wherein, Chief Counsel Joshua Prince explains the constitutional and statutory protections and case law precluding such regulation.
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