Don't get confused! HB 2229

[Brick]

Is fairly inococous and exempts firearms transfers between FFLs and Police Dept. contract purchases from certaain requirements.

Here it is:

PRINTER'S NO. 3189


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THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

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HOUSE BILL
No. 2229 Session of 2008


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INTRODUCED BY GODSHALL, STABACK, BRENNAN, CALTAGIRONE, CAPPELLI,
CAUSER, CREIGHTON, EVERETT, GEORGE, HARHAI, HARRIS, HESS,
HUTCHINSON, M. KELLER, KORTZ, MICOZZIE, PEIFER, PICKETT,
PYLE, SCAVELLO, SIPTROTH, SONNEY, STERN, R. STEVENSON,
SWANGER AND VEREB, FEBRUARY 5, 2008


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REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 5, 2008


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AN ACT

1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, in firearms and other dangerous
3 articles, further providing for sale or transfer of firearms.

4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 6111(j) of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 6111. Sale or transfer of firearms.
9 * * *
10 (j) Exemption.--
11 (1) The provisions of subsections (a) and (b) shall not
12 apply to:
13 (i) sales between Federal firearms licensees[.]; or
14 (ii) the purchase of firearms by a chief law
15 enforcement officer, or his designee, for the official
16 use of law enforcement officers.
17 (2) For the purposes of this subsection, the term "chief


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1 law enforcement officer" shall include the Commissioner of
2 the Pennsylvania State Police, the chief or head of a police
3 department, a county sheriff or any equivalent law
4 enforcement official.
5 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.

[ChamberedRound]

I don't think anyone should have restrictions placed on them, but if we have to do it, then the government should as well. Why should the government be exempt from ANYTHING the public is required to do? If anything the government should have MORE oversight than the people, not less.

This amendment would allow statewide law enforcement weapons purchases to be exempt from entry into the sales database. Well now, if the sales database isn't really a registry, then why does PA law enforcement want its sales exempted from entry into it? Seems a bit hypocritical to me.

[Brick]

I am rapidly learning that Pennsylvania's politicians (and petty bureaucrats too) thrive on hypocrisy.

[Triggerh4ppy]

Originally Posted by Brick

I am rapidly learning that Pennsylvania's politicians (and petty bureaucrats too) thrive on hypocrisy.

not only ours.....