PA Bill Number: HB809
Title: Further providing for definitions and for prohibited acts and penalties; and providing for syringe service programs authorized.
Description: Further providing for definitions and for prohibited acts and penalties; and providing for syringe service programs authorized. ...
Last Action: Referred to JUDICIARY
Last Action Date: Mar 5, 2025
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Oregon: We Are Very Close :: 04/28/2015
The House vote on the liberty smashing, privacy invading, woman attacking SB 941 will happen any day. It could be as soon as this Wednesday.
Real Facts About NH's Constitutional Carry Bill from an Active Duty Policeman :: 04/28/2015
(Ammoland.com)- Next week, the New Hampshire House of Representatives will consider SB 116, Constitutional Carry. We only have a few more days to make our views known to legislators. Please use the information below to contact your State Representatives and urge them to vote SB 116 “ought to pass”.
Senator: VA Denying Vets Their Constitutional Rights :: 04/28/2015
RUSS REPORT-Last week, Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee requested an explanation from the Justice Department as to why nearly every name in the “mentally defective” category of the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) belongs to a Veteran or their dependents. Grassley is one of many who have raised this issue in recent years but introduced Bills to correct such a miscarriage of justice always seem to die in the Senate.
An inalienable right to bear arms in the States: the enduring mystique of the Second Amendment :: 04/27/2015
Like the documentary journalist Iain Overton, author of this book, I was taught to shoot and maintain a gun as a boy. As an adult I joined a campaign to monitor, curb and limit the arms trade. I taught my children good gun protocols and how to shoot. There is an undeniable pleasure in shooting.
Are Democrats dangerously delusional about background checks? :: 04/27/2015
A comment the other day by Oregon Rep. Dan Rayfield (D-Corvallis) reported by the Albany Democrat Herald Thursday seems to sum up what many in the Second Amendment community have decided is a dangerously delusional attitude about a proposed “universal background check” bill now headed to the full House in Salem.
Gun rights advocates can use social media to better influence political outcomes :: 04/27/2015
“Yes, of course my senators voted for her, and what kills me is members in lost states wasting their limited time contacting committed, immovable Democrats in safe seats - like DiFi, Boxer and Schumer - when we could've been contacting swing Republicans and Republican leadership,” an activist friend observed in response to a national gun group email asking if his senator voted to confirm Loretta Lynch for Attorney General.
Hillary: Gun Control #1 Priority Of A Clinton Administration :: 04/27/2015
Speaking at a fifteen thousand a dollar plate fund-raiser in Washington D.C. Hillary Clinton laid out her vision of a Clinton presidency to a group of potential backers drawn from the ranks of America’s most powerful liberal elite. Among the laundry list of liberal policy prescriptions and agendas discussed came Clinton’s proclamation that firearm violence, and more specifically firearm control, will be the foremost domestic priority of her first term in office.
How To Destroy Your Firearm Training Business Without Even Trying :: 04/27/2015
FTA Firearms is a Wake County, NC-based company that offers a number of relatively basic firearms courses, but which derives their “bread and butter” from conducting the North Carolina Handgun Safety Course that students must pass in order to apply for an NC concealed carry permit. In fact they offer nothing else on their public calendar.
No statistical evidence that a waiting period for handgun purchases reduces violence, lawmaker says :: 04/27/2015
Amid a surge in murderous gun violence in Milwaukee, the Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate voted to repeal a state law that requires a two-day wait for handgun purchases.
Oath Keepers providing security in mine dispute with BLM :: 04/27/2015
Proprietors of a mine at the center of a land use dispute called for a Thursday protest at the Medford District Bureau of Land Management office while they attempt to serve papers, the Sugar Pine Mine announced Sunday.
South Carolina House overwhelmingly passes constitutional carry :: 04/27/2015
Lawmakers in the Palmetto State gave easy initial approval to a proposal to allow unlicensed concealed carry in the state last week in a 90-18 vote.
Why Is President Obama Prohibiting Veterans From Owning Guns? :: 04/27/2015
Despite the Second Amendment’s clear prohibition on all federal abrogations of the right to own and use weapons (“the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”), Congress has passed “laws” mandating that all federal agencies report names of individuals to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System’s (NICS) “mental defective” category.
CPRC: C-SPAN's Washington Journal on people's changing views on guns, Bloomberg's research director explains why he won't debate :: 04/26/2015
From C-SPAN: “John Lott talked about the new study put out by Pew Research Center which finds that support for gun rights have increased and, for the first time, protecting gun rights is more important than controlling ownership.”
Study: Majority of Americans prefer gun rights over expanded gun control :: 04/26/2015
For the first time in nearly two decades, a majority of Americans favor the protection of gun rights over expanded gun control and believe firearms help prevent being a victim of crime, a study by the Pew Research Center reports.
Hillary May Not Mention Her Support Of Gun Control Until After The Election :: 04/25/2015
On April 24, The Hill ran a column explaining that Hillary Clinton may not outline her strong support for more gun control until the presidential election is over.
Brother of Mass Shooting Victim Campaigns Against Gun Control :: 04/24/2015
Few people on either side of the border realize that school shootings were invented in Canada, not the U.S. — a good 20 years before Columbine, as a matter of fact.
D.C.'s Outrageous Second Amendment Double Standard :: 04/24/2015
If elected officials can possess guns, why can’t the rest of Washington’s citizens? As if it were not disgraceful enough that America’s shining capital has for decades sought to suppress the right of its people to keep and bear arms, we now learn that a pernicious double standard obtains as well.
How do we get 2nd Amendment agnostics to buy-in to gun rights? :: 04/24/2015
We know the worth of firearms. Beyond fun – yes, I went there – they offer deterrent value, peace of mind, and as illustrated by the new television series “The Last Man on Earth“, make great universal keys.
Mercer County (PA) munitions maker claims security impact outweighs harm to neighbors :: 04/24/2015
MERCER – While a Greene Township manufacturer of less-lethal munitions has denied that its activities produce intolerable noise, noxious gases or foul smells that impact its neighbors, the company also has invoked what might be called a national security defense.
Moms Demand Supporting Same Gun Control Bill as Sandy Hook Promise :: 04/24/2015
On April 22, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and Everytown for Gun Safety attended an Oregon House Rules Committee hearing in support of Senate Bill 941—the same gun control bill being supported by Sandy Hook Promise, the group for whom Tim McGraw is raising money on July 17.
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