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Democratic state legislators urged Pittsburghers on Thursday to support a bill that would ban the use of some military-style rifles by everyone except service members and law enforcement personnel. The lawmakers also said hunters in Pennsylvania don’t need the added firepower of semiautomatic rifles, including AR-15-type weapons, even though the Legislature passed a law in 2017 allowing that. The weapons increasingly are being used in mass killings that are “traumatizing today’s children,” said state Rep. Ed Gainey, D-Lincoln-Lemington, at a gathering sponsored by House Democrats at the Carnegie Library in Homewood. He and others called for support of a bill...

I had it on good authority Friday, and it's official today. State Senator Anne Duplessis has withdrawn SB 319 from consideration. Apparently, she realized that it had ZERO chance of passing. This is because good people like you called or wrote in expressing your opinions!! More details when available... To actually see that it has been pulled, go to www.legis.state.la.us and check for SB319 in the 2005 session. Thursday, May 12, 2005 Good News for Louisiana Gun Owners! Thanks to your phone calls and emails, Senator Ann Duplessis (D-New Orleans) withdrew Senate Bill 319 from the files of the Senate...