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Pennsylvania state law refers to a handgun as a "firearm", while "long gun" is used to describe a shotgun, or rifle of a certain length or longer. Minimum age for purchasing a long gun is 18, and the age restriction for purchasing a handgun is 21. However, someone under 21 can own a handgun if they are 18 and received the handgun as a gift.
The lawsuit challenged the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s 50-year-old firearms preemption laws which give the General Assembly sole authority to regulate the sale, possession and use of ...
The Uniform Firearms Act (UFA) is a set of statutes in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that defines the limits of Section 21 of the Pennsylvania Constitution, the right to bear arms, which predates the United States Constitution and reads: "The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State shall not be questioned."
In Republican-led states, those new laws generally have fortified gun rights, including new allowances for adults to carry concealed guns without permits in Louisiana and South Carolina.
The shooting of former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania on Saturday, allegedly by a 20-year-old gunman, has put the spotlight on the state's firearms laws. Below is a look at Pennsylvania's ...
Gun laws in the United States regulate the sale, possession, and use of firearms and ammunition.State laws (and the laws of the District of Columbia and of the U.S. territories) vary considerably, and are independent of existing federal firearms laws, although they are sometimes broader or more limited in scope than the federal laws.
In the November 2022 elections, Democrats won a one-seat majority in the Pennsylvania House and soon began advancing various gun-control measures. The House passed bills last year to expand background checks for gun sales and allow judges to order the removal of guns — at the request of police or family members — from people who are deemed ...
After two deadly mass shootings in May 2022—the shooting at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York and the Uvalde school shooting—the Democratic-majority House (on a near party-line vote) passed a package of gun-control bills, including a safe storage bill and bills to increase in the minimum age to buy semi-automatic rifles to 21, ban ...