View Full Version : Lawmaker aims to make federal gun control laws unenforceable in Pa.
tangent4ronpaul
01-24-2013, 03:15 AM
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/01/lawmaker_aims_to_make_federal.html
State Rep. Daryl Metcalf, R-Cranberry Township, announced Wednesday legislation he says would make new federal gun control laws unenforceable within Pennsylvania.
“Passage of my legislation will send the message that there will never be additional gun control, anywhere in Pennsylvania,” Metcalfe said in a news release. “Whether by White House executive orders, congressional fiat, or judicial activism, we will never allow the left to benefit from the wicked acts of murderers in order advance their senseless gun-grabbing agenda which would only succeed in replacing one of our most sacred personal liberties with the chains of government tyranny.”
Metcalfe said his Right to Bear Arms Protection Act (House Bill 357) would:
Prohibit enforcement of any new federal registration, restriction or prohibition requirement for privately owned firearms, magazines and ammunition.
Require the state of Pennsylvania, including the Office of Attorney General, to intercede on behalf of Commonwealth citizens against any federal attempt to register, restrict or ban the purchase or ownership of firearms and firearms accessories which are currently legal products.
Metcalfe's announcement comes as a group led by Pennsylvania Responsible Citizens is gathering on the front steps of the state capitol to rally in support of gun rights and the Second Amendment. CeaseFirePA is scheduled to lead a rally at the state capitol at noon in support of gun control measures.
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tangent4ronpaul
01-24-2013, 03:18 AM
This was yesterday. Does anyone know what happened / seen any reports?
Dueling gun rallies to take place at the state Capitol on Wednesday
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/01/dueling_gun_rallies_to_take_pl.html#incart_m-rpt-2
There’s going to be a showdown at the state Capitol on Wednesday over the raging gun debate that has taken hold across the nation in the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting.
Gathering on the building’s front steps at 10 a.m. will be the Pennsylvania Responsible Citizens to speak out in defense of the Second Amendment at a rally and followed by a march around the Capitol.
At noon, CeaseFire PA and its supporters will gather in the East Wing Rotunda for a "Day of Action" to a call for action to stop gun violence in Pennsylvania.
This will be followed at 1 p.m. with a prayer vigil organized by Heeding God's Call, a Philadelphia faith-based and grassroots movement, for those who lost their lives due to gun violence and to change attitudes and measures about guns.
Capitol police are beefing up their numbers as they would for any rally that is expected to draw a large crowd, said Troy Thompson, a spokesman for the state Department of General Services, which oversees the Capitol Police.
He said the gun rights’ rally organizers are expecting 100 to 150 participants while CeaseFire representatives advised that it expects as many as 250 people.
Rally organizers have been advised of the rules and behavior expectations, Thompson said.
The Pennsylvania Responsible Citizens include a statement on their website that participants “must be aware that it will receive a high degree of scrutiny” and “a constant state of decorum, dignity and respect must be displayed.”
Thompson said additional staff will be available to help, if necessary, to check in weapons that visitors may bring with them. But other than that, he said Capitol police are not altering their protocol for keeping order at the Capitol.
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tangent4ronpaul
01-24-2013, 04:14 AM
Gun rights, gun safety rallies come to Pa. Capitol
http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Gun-rights-gun-safety-rallies-come-to-Pa-Capitol-4216399.php
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Two sides of the political debate over guns brought their respective cases to the Pennsylvania Capitol on Wednesday, pressing for support among state lawmakers on an issue that's always present in Harrisburg but has become more prominent since last month's Connecticut school massacre.
The first event, in the bitter cold of the Capitol steps, was organized by a self-described grassroots group, Pennsylvania Responsible Citizens, and focused on gun protections in the state and national constitutions.
The Second Amendment, said freshman Rep. Tommy Sankey, R-Clearfield, was designed "to keep politicians in their place."
"If they want our guns, come and try to get them, because it's not going to happen," Sankey told the cheering crowd of about 100.
Inside the building about an hour later, some of them were among several hundred who heard people speak about how they have lost loved ones to gun violence, and many of them invoked the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., that killed 20 first-graders and six educators.
"Our country needs to use this tragedy, this anguish as our driving force to a better union, a more perfect union," said Philadelphia Deputy Mayor Rich Negrin, who recounted how his father was slain in front of him on a city street in 1979, when Negrin was 13 years old.
The rallies were held amid calls for a boycott of the nine-day Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show in Harrisburg next month because organizers banned the sale and display of assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines.
A growing number of businesses and organizations have pulled out of the massive sportsmen's show at the Farm Show Complex. Chet Burchett, regional president for Norwalk, Conn.-based Reed Exhibitions, declined an interview request Wednesday.
Among others, the show has lost Cabela's Inc., the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, the National Wild Turkey Federation and, on Wednesday, the National Rifle Association.
The NRA said it had asked Reed to reconsider but the company "steadfastly refused to do so."
"We are disappointed that Reed Exhibitions has ignored the concerns expressed by attendees, the outdoor industry and the NRA in not reconsidering their position to ban the display of modern sporting rifles," the NRA said in announcing its decision.
Joe Trobaugh, co-owner of a Greencastle company that markets sauces and other items for cooking wild game, got wind of Reed's policy on Saturday, and a day later he was drafting an announcement that Gutntag LLC would not be a participant.
Between the fee of about $2,000 for a 10-by-10 space and the lost business from the show, he estimates the decision cost Gutntag about $20,000.
"We feel strongly that the integrity of our business isn't based on the financial gain we could have made, but the stance of the Second Amendment," Trobaugh said. "We didn't make this decision because we want to jump on some bandwagon. We made the decision because we are outdoorsmen and we are hunters."
A Reed spokeswoman was not able to confirm an online posting that purports to list more than 200 vendors and dozens of other exhibitors that have canceled in protest, and could not say whether the movement has affected ticket sales.
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