Alloway’s amendment is a simple three-page device to codify allowing “a membership organization” to stand in for a “person adversely affected” by local municipal and county laws that are in excess of those already on the state’s books. This would allow organizations like the National Rifle Association and others to become primary plaintiffs in suits to overturn those laws and to recover legal expenses if successful. This has some senate Democrats seeing red.
“It is unprecedented in Pennsylvania jurisprudence…and across the nation,” said Sen. Larry Farnese (D) “We’re making history tonight. We are conferring rights and privileges to citizens of the United States to an association.”
Gun rights groups, who endorsed the measure, see it as a means to help homogenize gun laws in the Keystone State.
They don’t mind when unions get legal rights and privileges as citizens do. Or any other leftist ngo group.