SB 97 Handgun Purchase Permit Required

[Brick]

More idiocy from the Pennsylvania Senate. You must pass PICS, You might have a LTCF, but now some Senators think you should have a separate permit for each handgun purchase.

Yet another to stand against:

PRINTER'S NO. 76

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 97
Session of 2009

INTRODUCED BY WILLIAMS, KITCHEN, WASHINGTON, TARTAGLIONE, HUGHES AND FARNESE,
JANUARY 29, 2009

REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, JANUARY 29, 2009

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 under 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 under this section

17 or other sections of this chapter, shall be denied a handgun

18 purchaser permit, except as set forth under this subsection.

There's more, read it all at:
http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/...r=0097&pn=0076

[jerkin]

Do these 6 senators bend over for Helmke and Sugarman or what? Sure am glad that everything else in the state is so peachy that they have time to work on stupid legislation like this.

[jerkin]

I just did a little more reading on this, check out some of the reasons to deny the "permit"

b) Eligibility.--No person of good character and good
repute in the community in which he lives, and who is not
subject to any of the disabilities set forth under this section
or other sections of this chapter, shall be denied a handgun
purchaser permit, except as set forth under this subsection. No
handgun purchaser permit shall be issued to any of the following
persons:

(1) A person who has been convicted of a crime.

(2) A drug-dependent person, a person who is confined
for a mental disorder to a hospital, mental institution or
sanitarium, or to any person who is presently a habitual
drunkard.

(3) A person who suffers from a physical defect or
disease which would make it unsafe for him to handle
handguns.

(4) A person who has ever been confined for a mental
disorder or to an alcoholic, unless any of the foregoing
persons produces a certificate of a medical doctor or
psychiatrist licensed by the Commonwealth, or other
satisfactory proof, that he is no longer suffering from that
particular disability in a manner that would interfere with
or handicap him in the handling of handguns.

5) A person under 21 years of age.

(6) A person where the issuance would not be in the
interest of the public health, safety or welfare.

(7) A person who is the subject of an active protection
from abuse order issued pursuant to 23 Pa.C.S. § 6108
(relating to relief), which order provided for the
relinquishment of firearms while the order is in effect.

(8) A person who as a juvenile was adjudicated
delinquent for an offense which, if committed by an adult,
would constitute a crime, and the offense involved the
unlawful use or possession of a weapon, explosive or
destructive device.

(9) A person whose firearm is seized pursuant to 23
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Pa.C.S. § 6108 and whose firearm has not been returned.

(10) A person who knowingly falsifies any information on
the application form for a handgun purchaser permit.

(c) Issuance.--The chief of police of a full-time police
department of the municipality where the applicant resides or
the commissioner, in all other cases, shall, upon application,
issue to any person eligible under subsection (b) a handgun
purchaser permit.



Pretty sure speeding is a crime, so you can't own a handgun?

What about "not in the interest of public safety" now that's a good one, I think it's even better than the character clause.

How do these assholes get elected?

[FNG19]

More idiocy from the Pennsylvania Senate.
(...)
INTRODUCED BY WILLIAMS, KITCHEN, WASHINGTON, TARTAGLIONE, HUGHES AND FARNESE,

More like "different idiocy from the same idiots". Kitchen, Williams, Washington, and Tartaglione leech themselves onto every single one of these.

[billamj]

This will die in the Judiciary committee. My senator is on that committee and he has helped kill every anti bill to come along since I've been in his district and THAT is many, many moons.

[TaePo]

It would seem, at first glance mind you, that you could not even loan a firearm or let someone borrow one for a group shoot etc. unless you are a licensed dealer.

Poorly written to boot.

I will volunteer to march on Harrisburg if any of these get passed. Anyone with me?

[RoyJackson]

This will die in the Judiciary committee. My senator is on that committee and he has helped kill every anti bill to come along since I've been in his district and THAT is many, many moons.

I agree...it just pisses me off that such bigoted bills make it that far...these guys are as racist as the KKK.

Hell, Martin Luther King would spit on these bigots!

[larrymeyer]

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(2) A drug-dependent person, a person who is confined
for a mental disorder to a hospital, mental institution or
sanitarium, or to any person who is presently a habitual
drunkard.

Does this include a person on Insulin or heart meds high blood pressure ????