A Democratic-led state House committee on Tuesday advanced two more firearms safety bills, aimed at being more palatable to Republicans, despite fresh indications gun reform remains largely intractable along partisan lines.
A Democratic-led state House committee on Tuesday advanced two more firearms safety bills, aimed at being more palatable to Republicans , despite fresh indications gun reform remains largely intractable along partisan lines . The measures — requiring gun storage and imposing parental liability — are the latest pitched by the Democratic-majority House this session.
Two previous bills were approved and moved to the Republican-controlled Senate, where the judiciary chair said this week she has no intention of running them. “I have no plans to advance the bills,” Senate Judiciary Chair Lisa Baker, R-Luzerne County, wrote in an email Monday regarding the two House bills already in her committee. “I said we would invite proposals from anyone that represented something of a consensus on approaches deemed constitutional, enforceable, and practical. To date, we have not received such a proposa
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