PA House Committee Hearings on gun violence PITTSBURGH: March 20th, 2007

[danp]

Do you have more information on this?

[doug]

http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=2762

[Frenchy]

Here is more info on this.

House Committee Schedules Statewide Hearings on “Gun Violence” in Pennsylvania! Friday, March 16, 2007

The House Judiciary Committee, Chaired by Tom Caltagirone (Berks -D) has scheduled statewide hearings on gun-related crime. This is an opportunity for Pennsylvania’s law-abiding gun owners to express their concerns regarding the many recent anti-gun proposals introduced in the House of Representatives, that include "one-gun-a-month" schemes and semi-automatic firearm bans. It is critical that law-abiding gun owners attend these hearings. If you are unable to attend, please call your State Representative and urge him or her to stand-up for your Right to Keep and Bear Arms. The following is a preliminary list of cities and dates.


If you are interested in presenting testimony or need further information on any of the informational meetings please contact John Ryan or Bill Andring at 717-787-3525

March 23 South Philadelphia
Host: Rep. Harold James
Dixon House Community Center
1920 South 20th Street
10:00 a.m. - Noon*

March 27 Erie
Host: Rep. Patrick Harkins
Booker T. Washington Center
1720 Holland Street
10:00 a.m. - Noon

March 28 Pittsburgh (Oakland neighborhood)
Host: Rep. Dan Frankel
Carnegie-Mellon University
9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

March 29 Reading
Host: Rep. Thomas Caltagirone
Reading City Hall
9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
* Chester (Delaware County)
Host: Rep. Bryan Lentz and Rep. Thaddeus Kirkland
Community Hospital
2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

March 30 West Philadelphia
Host: To be Determined
Southwest Senior Center
6916 Elmwood Avenue
10:00 a.m. - noon

April 13 North Philadelphia
Host: Rep. Jewell Williams
Colorado Community Center
2243-57 North 20th Street

April 20 Center City Philadelphia
Host: Rep. Dwight Evans/Councilwoman Donna Reed-Miller
Philadelphia City Hall
10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

*April 27 Harrisburg - Final policy hearing.

[AtariaStarling]

I'll be there. Anybody up for an early breakfast or want to get together before???

[Frenchy]

Just got this from SAS. pa-sas@yahoogroups.com
Pay attention to what i Highlited in red. Dan you are getting some press here
Fellow defenders of the Second Amendment:

The Allegheny County Sportsmens League is organizing a Pro-Gun rally
at the State Capitol on Tuesday, April 24th - 9:00am to 11:00am.

Shamelessly taken from their website (www.acslpa.org), here's the text
of the announcement. Please help spread the word at your local gun
shops, gun clubs and other shooting ranges. We need to have as many
law-abiding gun owners there to show Harrisburg that we're tired of
the "feel-good" do-nothing legislation that paints us in the same
brush as the common criminal.

From the acslpa.org website:

Pro-Gun News Conference to be Held In Harrisburg—April 24th

We all knew the challenges we would face after last year's election
and our darkest fears are being realized. The only way to defeat this
is to join together once again and show those who would take our
freedoms that we will not yield.

We will join together for an early preemptive strike on our issues by
having a lobbying and education day, focusing on freshmen legislators,
and connect that with launching our pro-gun agenda, as we did last
year. Members of the Pennsylvania grassroots and gun owner's
coalition, which has been so successful for us on other issues, met
with Representative Daryl Metcalfe in early December to devise a
strategy for the upcoming session so that we would be prepared to deal
with these issues. The date we have agreed upon is April 24th and we
will combine our meeting and lobbying with another Pro-Gun Press
conference to introduce our pro-gun/pro-sportsmen agenda of
legislation. We can also use this opportunity to excoriate the
anti-gun forces, legislators and issues.

The pro-gun/pro-sportsmen legislation introduced last session (minus
HB 2563, 2134 & 1717 which passed) is listed below along with previous
sponsors.

SB 1156 – End Gun Registration (Pippy)
HB 2946 – Emergency CCW License for Domestic Violence Victims (Metcalfe)
HB 2789 – Hunting Rights & Due Process (Petrarca)
HB 2536 – End Gun Registration (Metcalfe)
HB 2231 – Castle Doctrine (Cappelli)
HB 1181 – PA Employees & CCW (Forcier)
HB 544 – Election Code Changes (Stevenson)
There are four additional legislative concepts that we are considering
for inclusion to the list above:

Turnover of PA Instant Check Responsibilities to the National Instant
Check System Legislation that would protect gun owners and prohibit
seizure of firearms during a crisis or emergency like what happened in
New Orleans.

Alaska style (two-tiered) Concealed Carry of Firearms System.

Eliminate redundant background checks for firearms purchased by
individuals licensed to carry a firearm.

If there are any additional thoughts on legislation we welcome your
thoughts.

We are deeply concerned, borne out by recent events, that with control
shifting in the House that the anti-gun forces would perceive this
session as their best opportunity to pass legislation which was
soundly rejected during the committee of the whole last year. Rep.
Dwight Evans and his anti-gun coalition are proving our concerns to be
well founded.

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There are other groups that are trying to get more gun owners to head
to the Capitol on the 24th. Please join us there!

Also, consider joining the Pennsylvania Firearm Owners Association -
www.pafoa.org . All things for firearms in Pennsylvania -
discussions, legal issues / legislative issues, group meets and other
information. Stop by www.pafoa.org for a look around and join the
debate about our Section 21 and Second Amendment Rights in Pennsylvania.

Thanks for taking the time to read this - sorry it was so long.

Hope to see many, many of you at Harrisburg on the 24th!

--Cindy

[Lambo]

Don't you Gals & Guys fall asleep up there! Stay on top of things! GOOD LUCK!!!

[Mtbkski]

I am going to the meeting at Carneige Mellon in the morning.

[awkx]

Anyone know where exactly this is being held? Carnegie Mellon has a fairly large campus with many buildings, and the street address given at
http://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/CO/HM/COHM.HTM
isn't even on the campus.

Ah, I seem to have found the answer to my question. According to another post on this forum, the real location is CMU's newly built Collaborative Information Center at 4720 Forbes Avenue.