Issues
Every year the Pennsylvania Right to Keep and Bear Arms Rally identifies and focuses on key issues that are affecting gun owners throughout the Commonwealth. Our goal is to bring light to these issues and through citizen involvement encourage our legislators to protect gun owners’ rights.
This Years Issues
Castle Doctrine (House Bill 40)
In order to protect people from improper and aggressive criminal and civil liabilities when they are forced to defend themselves from violent attacks, House Bill 40 is written to accomplish two goals:
- Clarify when a person may use force to protect themselves or others, making sure that people can be confident in their ability to protect themselves when they are threatened with death or serious bodily injury.
- Protect people who are justified in their use of defensive force from frivolous and potentially bankrupting civil lawsuits.
Correcting Firearm Transportation Laws (House Bill 750)
Due to poorly worded statutes and definitions, there is common confusion about transporting firearms in Pennsylvania. House Bill 750 hopes to clarify the wording and intent of the Uniform Firearms Act in order to provide gun owners with a clear understanding of how to legally transport firearms throughout the Commonwealth.
Punishing Municipalities for Preemption Violations (House Bill 1541)
Throughout the Commonwealth municipalities either working with or duped by out-of-state gun control interests have passed illegal firearm regulation ordinances that were overwhelmingly defeated at the state level. While these ordinances are illegal and unenforceable, they cause consider fear and distress to law-abiding, gun owning residents. House Bill 1541 seeks to provide punishments to municipalities who ignore and violate established state law in order to curb this undemocratic behavior.
