PA Bill Number: HB568
Title: In firearms and other dangerous articles, providing for gun violence task forces.
Description: In firearms and other dangerous articles, providing for gun violence task forces. ...
Last Action: Referred to JUDICIARY
Last Action Date: Feb 12, 2025
Latest News
ATF announces NFA branch reorganization in effort to improve performance :: 04/13/2017
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives has split its National Firearms Act branch into a separate division in hopes of providing more oversight and efficiency.
Gun Control Group Briefed ABC's Designated Survivor Team, Urges Supporters to Thank Show for Gun Episode :: 04/13/2017
A leading gun control group said on Wednesday it briefed the team behind ABC's Designated Survivor in the lead up to its premiere season and urged its supporters to thank the channel for last week's episode focusing on guns.
Gun pre-emption bill wins first-round approval in Nebraska :: 04/13/2017
A bill that would overturn most local gun ordinances that are more stringent than Nebraska state law cleared a key hurdle Wednesday despite protests from some Omaha and Lincoln area senators who raised public safety concerns.
Iowa governor signs sweeping expansion of gun rights :: 04/13/2017
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad (R) on Thursday signed one of the most ambitious expansions of gun rights legislation passed in any state in recent years, giving gun owners the ability to defend themselves in public and preventing local governments from implementing their own rules.
Report: ATF agents used secret bank account for Nascar and Vegas trips :: 04/13/2017
Agents in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives used a secret bank account to take a trip to Las Vegas, rent a $21,000 suite for a Nascar race, and donate money to one of their children’s schools, records and interviews indicate.
Second Amendment protects the assault rifles :: 04/13/2017
ANALYSIS/OPINION: For decades the federal judiciary has been trying to interpret the Second Amendment out of the Constitution. It is, as Sanford Levinson has termed it, an “embarrassment” to an elite class of legal scholars that finds firearms to be unusual and repulsive objects.
Trump has been easing Obama-era gun restrictions. You just may not have heard. :: 04/13/2017
With little attention, President Donald Trump’s administration has been quietly loosening firearms restrictions in the United States after successfully seeking the support of gun owners on the campaign trail.
ATF report: Gun thefts spiked in 2016 :: 04/12/2017
Gun thefts from federally licensed firearms dealers rose significantly in 2016, according to a new report from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Details emerge on San Bernardino school shooting :: 04/12/2017
Although the investigation is still ongoing and will be for some time, authorities released additional details surrounding the shooting at a San Bernardino elementary school Monday morning.
England: Gun and knife crime rises must be reversed :: 04/12/2017
The startling 42 per cent rise in gun crime and the similarly concerning 24 per cent increase in knife offences revealed in annual statistics published today by Scotland Yard provide further troubling evidence of two growing problems in this city that have been highlighted within the past week by the deadly shooting of 16-year-old Karim Samms in Woolwich on Friday and the fatal stabbing of two men, one 19 and the other 20, within 90 minutes yesterday afternoon.
England: Gun and knife crime soaring in London, official figures show :: 04/12/2017
The number of gun and knife crime offences in London soared last year amid fears more young people are carrying weapons for self-protection and status.
Pennsylvania gun groups: Dump PICS, switch to NICS :: 04/12/2017
A Pennsylvania gun group hopes two new legislative proposals introduced in the General Assembly last month will dissolve the state’s “duplicative, incompetent” background check system for good.
The Politically Incorrect Firearms Style Sheet for Non-Gun Owners :: 04/12/2017
Firearms and the use of force often confuse the layman and the journalist. This style sheet tries to present complex subjects in simple terms that are easy to understand for people who don’t go to gun stores or the range.
Who's Unsafe on Campus? :: 04/12/2017
USA – -(Ammoland.com)- Springtime may be in bloom, but snowflakes never go out of season at America's most prestigious colleges and universities.
As Gorsuch Takes Seat, 2nd Amendment Issues Face SCOTUS :: 04/11/2017
Newly-sworn Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch will be rolling up his sleeves and getting to work almost immediately on various issues facing the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). Among the potential cases, according to at least two media reports, are those dealing with Second Amendment rights outside the home.
Chicago vs. Phoenix: The Deadly Truth About Gun Laws and Violence :: 04/11/2017
Chicagos’s gun deaths increase — gun laws are tightened — gun deaths increase — gun laws are tightened; on and on goes the cycle as more and more law abiding Americans die at the hands of armed Chicago criminals who feel no need to obey the devastating gun-restrictions laws that leave the good guys defenseless . . . and dead.
Guns and Domestic Violence - Surprising Findings :: 04/11/2017
Guns are almost never involved in incidents of Intimate Partner Violence (or “domestic violence” as more commonly termed). This is according to a new report, “Guns in Intimate Partner Violence: Comparing Incidents by Type of Weapon” by Susan Sorensen, PhD of the University of Pennsylvania. Using Philadelphia police filings during 2103 she found that of 35,413 incidents in only 1% was a gun observed at the scene.
Guns in America: Group vows to defeat NRA-backed national concealed carry reciprocity :: 04/11/2017
A major gun-violence prevention group has pledged to fight against a National Rifle Association–backed national concealed carry reciprocity effort and against pro-gun candidates in the 2018 midterm elections, as gun-safety advocates work to adjust to a Republican-controlled White House and Congress.
Women, children under fire: Analysis of mass shootings :: 04/11/2017
A quarter of all the mass shooting fatalities in the country since 2009 were children, according to analysis released Tuesday by gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety.
Anti-Gunners: Gun control group vows $25M to fight 'concealed carry' :: 04/10/2017
Preparing for life with Donald Trump as president and Republican majorities in Congress, Michael Bloomberg’s gun control group is threatening to spend more than $25 million in 2018 races.
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