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I saved this article from the Pittsburgh Trib, why I don't know but some on this site may find this interesting.


http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pitt.../s_479391.html



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Photo identification cards laminated in plastic eventually will replace paper permits with names and addresses. Officials hope the new licenses will better track guns.
"I just want to make it more difficult to get a gun in Allegheny County," said acting Sheriff William Mullen.


These two things bother me, how will new permits track guns, especially in a state where there isn't supposed to be a database?

And please tell me that he wants to make it more difficult for criminals to get guns?

[Frenchy]

Photo identification cards laminated in plastic eventually will replace paper permits with names and addresses. Officials hope the new licenses will better track guns.
"I just want to make it more difficult to get a gun in Allegheny County," said acting Sheriff William Mullen.


These two things bother me, how will new permits track guns, especially in a state where there isn't supposed to be a database?

And please tell me that he wants to make it more difficult for criminals to get guns?

In April, Allegheny County implemented its own background check, and anyone with a prior arrest on certain felony and misdemeanor charges is disqualified from receiving concealed gun permits. Allegheny's system delays the issuance of permits up to 45 days.

You got to love it when the police take into their own hands to do some thing.

[Intrigue]

You got to love it when the police take into their own hands to do some thing.

Are they even allowed to do that? I'm pretty sure state law preempts the allegheny law, and says that only people with certain offenses may be denied. If i'm understanding the law correctly, I'm pretty sure that sherrif is overstepping his bounds. And the first time someone gets denied for something not listed in the state statutes, and appeals it in court, that sherrif is going to get his butt handed to him by an angry judge.