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Legislators in the State Chamber adopted provisions that would require the control of the past of sales and the transfer of rifles and shotguns, which are not currently required in Pennsylvania.
. 104-99 Voting He was one of the three on Tuesday to try to tighten the provisions on the weapon of the community. They emphasized the complexity of the transfer of firearms in a narrowly divided house, in which the division between rural and urban interests does not always follow party lines.
Five Republicans joined most of the Democrats in support of the Act on checking the past, which now goes to a state -controlled state senate. This is one of the four bills for weapons quickly fainted from the judicial committee last week after thunderous shootings in September. They included the murder of a conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah and Asthia killed three law enforcement officers During a shooting in York.
The draft act on the creation of the Red Flag law, which allows courts to temporarily prohibit people considered a risk for themselves or other persons with a firearm, failed in one vote-101-102. The third measure prohibiting undetectable weapons to ghosts also appeared on the same margin.
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Democratic leaders did not call for the fourth bill that would ban the devices A place to effort semi -automatic weapons at the same pace as automatic.
As in Earlier votes in the field of weap safetyDemocratic representative Frank Burns, who largely includes part of Cambria, a rural district, broken ranks Voting “no” on all three weapons bills.
Democratic representatives of Jim Haddock from Luzerne and Anita Kulik, who is the chairwoman of the Game and Fisheries committee, joined Burns in the opposition to the provisions regarding the check of the past.
Republican representatives of Joe Hogan, Kathleen Tomlinson, Kristin Marcell and Craig Williams, each of whom represents the districts in the suburbs of Philadelphia, voted for the law, just like Rep. Martina White, the only Republican who represents Philadelphia.
The leader of the home minority Jesse Topper (R-Bedford) said during the debate on the floor of the house that more weapon regulations would not prevent the “most dangerous” access to firearms.
“We saw it at national level and through various countries … The only thing that these restrictions led to is a violation of the constitutional laws of Americans who are legally owned and use weapons,” said Topper.
Rep. Aaron Bernstine (R-Lawrence) raised a question about the constitutionality of the Home Act of 1859, the middle of the Red Flag law, claiming that it violates the decision of the state constitution, that the right to wear weapons “will not be questioned”. The application failed to vote on the party line 101-102.
Bill House 1099 would prohibit firearms made entirely of non -metal materials or not containing at least one main element made entirely of metal, which can pass through unnoticed metal detectors. “Ghost Guns” are often built by amateur shooters using plastic parts, which bypass federal serial recipes or are produced using 3D printers.
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Rep. Tim Bonner (R-Mercer) said that “Ghost Gun” is a sinister name for something that was common in the history of the country, noticing that the United States Supreme Court stated that weapons should be considered in a historical context to determine whether they are constitutional.
“We call them today Ghost Guns. Our founding fathers and our real patriots called them home -like weapons,” said Bonner.
He added that there are already federal and state regulations that require all firearms detecting by metal detectors.
“We all want to see how this violence has stopped,” he said. “But the recycling of the same weapon regulations that have been recognized as unconstitutional, or where we already have books on books to deal with this, is not a solution to the problem of violence in this country.”
