Concealed Carry in PA Article

[Glock17]

The Patriot today, or at least Pennlive.com did a story on CCW in Pennsylvania.

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/ind...8/09/guns.html

[zep_1]

There is a article in Sundays paper on the front page about the rise in concealed carry permits, didn't get to read the whole thing yet but thought it would be of interest.

[Kumarian]

Any one else read the Patriot-News today? Front page has a story by Mary Warner titled "Who's Packing."

I was surprised that it wasn't completely negative.

Story can be found at http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriot...l=1&thispage=1

[Boomer]

Who's packing?

Sunday, September 21, 2008 BY MARY WARNER
Of The Patriot-News

A pit bull lunges for a 4-year-old boy as he walks with his father to Saturday services at a Harrisburg synagogue. The father pulls his pistol and shoots the dog.
In the parking lot of an Annville-Cleona school, a student finds a loaded handgun. Turns out, a school bus driver with a permit to carry it dropped it from her purse.
In the wake of a shooting outside Harrisburg Mall, police arrest and then release an armed man in a car. He's not a suspect, they say, and he has a permit to pack that pistol............

Complete story here:

http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1221859505238770.xml&coll=1




In todays Sunday Patriot -News Harrisburg


Good article.

[Statkowski]

http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriot...l=1&thispage=1

[fingers80002]

I guess I am!!!

[FrankJL]

The places where guns are prohibited under Pennsylvania law make a relatively short list: casinos, courts, day care centers, homes for the mentally retarded, and schools.

Is this more creative writing from the media or actual law?

I never knew those places where off limits..not that I have a real need to go to either, was just wondering?

[fingers80002]

Is this more creative writing from the media or actual law?

I never knew those places where off limits..not that I have a real need to go to either, was just wondering?

Licensed day care Centers are , by staute, the other, ?

[gnbrotz]

Licensed day care Centers are , by staute, the other, ?

Not so fast....firearms are prohibited in some licensed daycare facilities as a condition of licensing. There is no criminal statute prohibiting someone from carrying a firearm in such a facility, and no criminal penalty for the act. The "penalty" is loss of licensing for the facility, and I would be surprised to know of any example where a license was lost because of a patron carrying there.

[gnbrotz]

In the parking lot of an Annville-Cleona school, a student finds a loaded handgun. Turns out, a school bus driver with a permit to carry it dropped it from her purse.
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The places where guns are prohibited under Pennsylvania law make a relatively short list: casinos, courts, day care centers, homes for the mentally retarded, and schools. (The bus driver who dropped her gun at school was suspended.)

Ummm.....that's a penalty imposed by her employer, not a result of a criminal conviction - it doesn't even say she was charged.....interesting.

I need to find this lady's name and speak to her.