Legislative package to prevent shooting deaths heads toward Pa. House floor

A legislative package aimed at ensuring guns don’t get into the hands of children and criminals and preventing shooting deaths advanced toward votes in the Democratically-controlled state House on Wednesday.

But Republican lawmakers, who have blocked gun safety bills in past sessions, voted unanimously against the measures in the House Judiciary Committee in a preview of the opposition the four bills are likely to face in the GOP-controlled state Senate.

Each of the bills was reported out of committee on 12-9 votes.

The legislation, Republican committee members said, would do little to reduce crime and create legal pitfalls for gun owners.

“We’re discussing a slew of new laws that are going to mainly and almost exclusively affect citizens that are already law-abiding gun owners because, by definition, criminals don’t really follow the law,” Rep. David Rowe, R-Union, said.





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