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

In order to protect people from improper and aggressive criminal and civil liabilities when they are forced to defend themselves from violent attacks, Castle Doctrine legislation is written to accomplish two goals:

  1. 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.
  2. Protect people who are justified in their use of defensive force from frivolous and potentially bankrupting civil lawsuits.

Correcting Firearm Transportation Laws

Due to poorly worded statutes and definitions, there is common confusion about transporting firearms in Pennsylvania. We hope 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

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. We seek to provide punishments to municipalities who ignore and violate established state law in order to curb this undemocratic behavior.

Pennsylvania Instant Check System Reform

For years Pennsylvania has been wasting millions of dollars supporting a state-specific background check system that can be replaced with sole use of the federal National Instant Check System. In addition to the wasted taxpayer money, the PICS system has for years been used and abused by politicians and bureaucrats to skirt Pennsylvania law against keeping a gun owner registry. It is our goal to evaluate PICS and determine whether it can justify it’s continued cost.