Posted March 9, 2017 9:39 am by Comments

By Christen Smith

Pennsylvania State Rep. Mark Keller, R-Perry, participating in a House Transportation Committee meeting on February 10, 2016. (Photo: RepKeller.com)
A Pennsylvania lawmaker reintroduced a bill last week designed to prevent the Commonwealth’s 2,500 municipalities from enacting gun ordinances more restrictive than state law.
House Bill 671, sponsored by Rep. Mark Keller, R-Perry, is a near-identical reboot of last session’s House Bill 2258, which corrected a previous proposal, Act 192, invalidated by the Supreme Court last year.
“It was very clear why the courts threw Act 192 out,” Keller said during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on HB 2258 in September. “Not because of this particular law, but because of the single subject matter. That needs to be noted. The law itself is not unconstitutional. It’s the way it was put through.”
In October 2014, state Republicans amended Act 192 into a scrap metal theft bill and sent it to then-Gov. Tom Corbett’s desk. Described at the time as the “strongest firearms preemption statute in the country” by the National Rifle Association, state Democrats, including Attorney General Kathleen Kane, balked at the notion of gun rights groups suing municipalities over local firearm ordinances.
The NRA filed suit against Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Lancaster less than two weeks after Act 192

Source: Guns.com

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