Pennsylvania house chamber. (Photo Peter Hall/Pennsylvania Capital-Star)
Emotional debate and growing temperature preceded voting on Wednesday regarding the provisions regarding the state chamber to prohibit devices used to blow up semi -automatic pistols as quickly as machine guns.
The bill he would add Machine gun conversion devicesKnown as Glock Switches, on the list of prohibited weapons of the offensive Pennsylvania, he was the fourth in the package of provisions aimed at tightening the provisions regarding the weapons of the Commission of the Judiciary of the Chamber issued for votes last week.
The action on the accounts took place in September a series of raucous shootings, including the trees of the Three York County police and the murder of the right -wing activist Charlie Kirk in Utah.
House Bill 1866 101-102 failed in voting when Rep. Frank Burns (D-Cambria) gave the only democratic voice in the opposition. As in the case of two reformation accounts rejected on Tuesday, Burns joined the Republicans who unanimously voted against the ban on conversion devices. The house released a measure on Tuesday with double -sided support that would do it Require the background control of shotguns and rifleswhich is not currently required in Pennsylvania.
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During the debate on the act on the conversion of a machine gun, a screaming match between several legislators on the opposite sides of the house after a representative of Malcolm Kenyatta (D-D-Miladelphia) approached the fiery rhetoric rights for the rights to weapons and their perception of the second amendment as a tuber.
“Organize me with your fair speeches about getting up [to] tyranny when you don’t do anything to get up [to] Tyrania, consistently – said Kenyatta.
The incident was not included in the live broadcast of the house floor, and the only indication was the speaker Joanna McClinton calling for a home sergeant in weapons to tidy the passage and legislators to take places. Later, she provided a strict admonition, saying that she was disappointed with what had happened earlier.
“I do not hear what insults and insults are said to each other in the transition, but let me remind everyone, if you make a threat, it can be a crime. This is a free legal advice,” adding that the sergeant in the case of weapons and the capital would conduct an investigation.
“One thing is to provide feedback after people speak or joke, but it is absolutely unacceptable and it will not be tolerated that any threats are made with a climate in which we are blessed that we live and serve, threats will be taken seriously,” said McClinton.
The leader of the minority Jesse Topper (R-Bedford) said in a statement that tensions are high in capitol for many reasons, but as elected officials legislators must behave “in a way reflecting this great institution and good communities that we all represent”.
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The main representative of Bill, Mandy Steele (D-Allegheny), said that she had developed this remedy in the memory of the head of the police Brackenridge Justin Mcntire. He was murdered in 2023 by a suspect using a pistol, which was transformed into fire at a rate of hundreds of rounds per minute.
“The survivor of the family of the head of McIntyre wants these senseless devices outside the street, like every head of the police I represent,” said Steele, presenting a list of 16 communes in which the best law enforcement officers regain a ban at the level of state.
Also known as automatic Sear or “Glock switches” for a popular pistol manufacturer, whose device pistols are sometimes used for modification, machine gun conversion devices are miniature metal or plastic objects. Steele said that they disturb the gun shooting mechanism, allowing the shooter to shoot many shots with one stroke.
“This is not a violation of the second amendment. It is honoring the police that we have lost and stopped the heart pain consisting in losing one madness of 900 bullets per minute,” Steele said, noting that law enforcement officers in deep conservative countries spoke on similar resources.
“He would order that this body votes against our police, forcing them to continue to end this madness, because that’s how voting is,” said Steele.
