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Pennsylvania law requires that information received by the Pennsylvania State Police pursuant to a sale is destroyed within 72 hours of the completion of the background check. [1] [2] The Pennsylvania Firearm Owners Association notes that the Pennsylvania State Police nonetheless keep a "sales database" of all handguns purchased within the ...
The shooting of former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania on Saturday, allegedly by a 20-year-old gunman, has put the spotlight on the state's firearms laws. Below is a look at Pennsylvania's ...
The laws range in scope from use of force in self-defense situations, to specific categories of citizens that are ineligible to purchase or possess firearms. UFA for Pennsylvania is generally a more libertarian interpretation of the right to keep and bear arms, in that it does not prohibit the sale and transfer of Class III NFA firearms ...
The lawsuit challenged the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s 50-year-old firearms preemption laws which give the General Assembly sole authority to regulate the sale, possession and use of ...
Gun laws in the United States regulate the sale, possession, and use of firearms and ammunition.State laws (and the laws of the District of Columbia and of the U.S. territories) vary considerably, and are independent of existing federal firearms laws, although they are sometimes broader or more limited in scope than the federal laws.
It cited supportive evidence that safe gun-storage laws reduce firearm injuries and deaths among youth; higher minimum age requirements for gun purchases can reduce suicides among young people ...
Federal law requires the holders of a federal firearms license (FFL), such as gun stores, pawn shops, outdoors stores and other licensees, to perform a background check of the buyer and keep a record of the sale for any commercial sale, regardless of whether the sale takes place at the seller's regular place of business or at a gun show ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democrats in majority control of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives advanced several gun control measures Wednesday, including one that would ban sales of automatic ...