PA Bill Number: SB262
Title: In actions, proceedings and other matters generally, providing for extreme risk protection orders.
Description: In actions, proceedings and other matters generally, providing for extreme risk protection orders. ...
Last Action: Referred to JUDICIARY
Last Action Date: Feb 20, 2025
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Gun rights activists rally against attorney general's curb on copycat assault rifles :: 07/24/2016
Hundreds of gun rights activists lined Beacon Street in front of the State House on Saturday morning to denounce Attorney General Maura Healey’s recent restriction on copycat assault rifles.
Read And Compare: Two Party Platforms, Two Views On Gun Rights :: 07/24/2016
Republicans have adopted a party platform for 2016 and Democrats have published a draft, and one need only read and compare the references to firearms in both documents to understand where each party stands on the Second Amendment.
SAF Slams Media Cover For Clinton's Campaign Against Second Amendment :: 07/24/2016
BELLEVUE, WA – The Second Amendment Foundation today condemned attempts by the agenda-driven media, led by CBS, to provide cover for Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton’s war on gun rights by trying to debunk Republican Donald Trump’s statement Thursday night that Clinton “wants to essentially abolish the Second Amendment.”
The Cleveland Police Union's Worrying Contempt for the Second Amendment :: 07/24/2016
Given the recent string of brutal cop killings across the country, it is perhaps not the best time to criticize American police forces. Nevertheless, Cleveland's police, at the very least, are very worthy of censure, if for no other reason than the head of that city's police union recently declared a dangerous and reprehensible opposition to the American constitutional order.
What Are Tim Kaine's Second Amendment Views? He Has Personal Connections To The Issue :: 07/24/2016
The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, named Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as her choice for vice president on Friday night. Kaine brings with him nearly two decades of experience in politics, starting as the mayor of Richmond, Virginia in 1998 to becoming his state's governor for four years before becoming a U.S. senator in 2013.
Bullet Points - The Media Keeps Misfiring When It Writes About Guns :: 07/23/2016
If the media wants a healthy conversation about firearm laws, it needs to stop getting basic gun facts wrong when reporting on mass shootings.
Germany has some of the world's strictest gun laws, but illegal weapons remain a threat :: 07/23/2016
BERLIN — Germany has some of the world's strictest gun laws. But that did not stop Friday's Munich attacker — an 18-year old dual Iranian-German national — from carrying out his shooting spree.
Munich officials: Gunman was obsessed with mass killings but had no ties to ISIS :: 07/23/2016
MUNICH — Munich authorities said Saturday that the gunman who went on a rampage at a shopping center Friday, leaving nine people dead, had no ties to the Islamic State or other extremist groups. Instead, police believe he was obsessed with mass killings and may have been mentally ill.
Slate Writer asks for Facts on Guns and Gun Law Coverage :: 07/23/2016
Rachel Larimore, a Senior Editor at Slate, has written an unusual piece for the publication. It is titled Bullet Points. You can be forgiven for expecting this will be another uninformed diatribe against those evil conservatives, who if they would only stop licking the boots of their NRA masters, would allow common sense legislation to pass that would prevent crime by outlawing evil guns.
College rifle, pistol-shooting clubs under fire, underfunded amid gun debate :: 07/22/2016
Zoe Callaway enjoys going to the rifle range to blow off steam, help fellow University of Delaware students learn gun safety and hone her sharp-shooting skills, but lately she and some classmates feel they are being targeted over their enthusiasm for firearms.
Court strikes down Texas voter ID law as discriminatory :: 07/22/2016
A federal appeals court has ruled that a Texas law requiring voters produce one of seven forms of acceptable identification in order to vote is discriminatory. The panel left the requirement to show ID in place, but ordered the state to accommodate those who cannot.
Eric Holder Calls For Police To Support Stricter Gun Control :: 07/22/2016
In response to the recent tragedies in Dallas and Baton Rouge, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder called on law enforcement officers to join in advocating for stricter gun control laws.
Have we reached a point of no return? :: 07/22/2016
Multicultural societies — from 19th-century Austria–Hungary to contemporary Iraq, Lebanon, the former Yugoslavia, and Rwanda — have a poor record of keeping the peace between competing tribes. They usually end up mired in nihilistic and endemic violence.
Many feared dead after shooting spree at Munich shopping center, German news agency reports :: 07/22/2016
Police in Munich reportedly said they expect "multiple dead" after a shooting spree inside a city shopping center, prompting a massive police response and an intense manhunt for possible suspects.
Mike Pence's 8 Greatest Fights to Kill Gun Control :: 07/22/2016
Mike Pence not only brings a strong gun rights record to the Republican ticket, but also a real history of warring against gun control while a U.S. Representative and, thereafter, the Governor of Indiana.
Stats don't support Massachusetts AG's expanded ban on Assault Weapons :: 07/22/2016
Massachusetts’ latest move to expand its assault weapons ban to a new class of rifles is a solution in search of a problem, according to gun rights groups who note the latest annual FBI statistics show not one murder was committed in the Bay State using a rifle of any kind.
Anti-Gunners: PA - 2nd Amendment not intended to terrorize citizens :: 07/21/2016
No one wants a truly disturbed person to access guns. Conversely, no one should impose a lifetime gun rights ban on someone who suffered a low moment and has been incident-free ever since.
Anti-Second Amendment Groups Seek Camouflage to Sell Infringments :: 07/21/2016
Arizona -(Ammoland.com)- Those who seek to disarm the public have always had a hidden agenda. In the middle and early 60’s the assault was more open. With each new assault the public grew more educated and the fallacies of the anti-Second Amendment arguments were exposed. As public support waned, those who hate an empowered public, have grown more desparate and more disingenuous.
HANDS UP, THEY SHOT: Caretaker of Autistic Man Blasted By Incompetent North Miami Cop :: 07/21/2016
Officers from the North Miami Police responded to a 911 call where the caller claimed that a man with a gun was threatening suicide.
Indiana police department in Facebook post: We will NEVER take your weapons :: 07/21/2016
A small-town Indiana police department has clarified its stance on martial law in a widely shared Facebook post.
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