Wake Up! They're at it again! SB1379

[Brick]

Here's another bill just crying for our opposition.

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

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SENATE BILL
No. 1379 Session of 2008


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INTRODUCED BY A. WILLIAMS, HUGHES, KITCHEN AND C. WILLIAMS,
APRIL 28, 2008


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REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, APRIL 28, 2008


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AN ACT

1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, providing for purchase of handguns.

3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Title 18 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
6 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
7 § 6105.2. Purchase of handguns.
8 (a) Handgun purchaser permit.--No person shall sell, give,
9 transfer, assign or otherwise dispose of, nor receive, purchase
10 or otherwise acquire a handgun unless the purchaser, assignee,
11 donee, receiver or holder is licensed as a dealer under this
12 chapter or has first secured a permit to purchase a handgun as
13 provided by this section.
14 (b) Eligibility.--No person of good character and good
15 repute in the community in which he lives, and who is not
16 subject to any of the disabilities set forth in this section or
17 other sections of this chapter, shall be denied a handgun



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1 purchaser permit, except as set forth in this subsection. No
2 handgun purchaser permit shall be issued to any of the following
3 persons:

For the full text see
http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/...r=1379&pn=1967

[Roscoe]

Ahhhhhhhhhh crap


Why don't they introduce a bill against bad guys.................wtf........

[spabula]

just another way to keep track, and hit you for some extra $$. What is the point?? so basically what they'll do is run you through PICS and NICS then hand you a slip so you can go buy your gun?!?! don't we already go through that?? I dont understand how it will help anything.

[spabula]

I forgot to add the part about me complaining about why they need a written physical description of me and my finger prints!! Don't they do that to criminals??

[CZ40P]

Is there something in the water in Philadelphia? Are all politicians from Philadelphia just plain idiots. Jeeze........it never ends

[markheck1]

Worst of all......they will get this one passed....cause it will make it EASIER for a law abiding citizen to get a handgun....or so they will tell you.......cause you don;t need to do PICS and NICS for each purchase.......

then you'll needa permit, and need to do PICS and NICS each time anyway

[GunLawyer001]

I think the key to this is this clause: "No person of good character and good
repute in the community in which he lives" shall be denied the permit.

Sound familiar? What's the most common basis for revoking a LTCF when the sheriff can't point to an actual crime or prohibition? Right. The "character or reputation" clause.

It's the ambiguous loophole that government loves to use against the citizens. You're entitled to the permit unless we don't feel like giving you one, in which case the only people getting the permit are those willing to hire lawyers and spend their days in court.

[markheck1]

WAAAAAY too familiar

[deafsmithco]

Sounds just like that little country to our east.

[spabula]

According to that if you dont use your permit and then dont return it in 5 days even though it is now invalid you will be charged with a misdimenor of the first degree.... wtf is that???