PA Bill Number: SB1357
Title: In preparation for and conduct of primaries and elections, further providing for peace officers, no police officer to be within one hundred feet of ...
Description: In preparation for and conduct of primaries and elections, further providing for peace officers, no police officer to be within one hundred feet of ...
Last Action: Referred to State Government
Last Action Date: Jun 4, 2026
Guns Can Be Taken From Nonviolent Felons Under Second Amendment :: 06/08/2019
The Second Amendment doesn’t prevent the government from taking guns away from nonviolent felons, the Seventh Circuit said June 6.
Nonviolent felons are not the type of “law-abiding, responsible citizens” protected by the amendment under District of Columbia v. Heller, the opinion by Judge Frank H. Easterbrook said.
A federal statute prevents any person convicted of felony from possessing firearms. Larry Hatfield, who was convicted of fraudulently receiving Railroad Retirement Board benefits and sentenced to three years probation, argued...
