PA Bill Number: HB469
Title: Amending the act of August 5, 1977 (P.L.181, No.47), entitled "An act providing for the acceptance by the Governor of jurisdiction relinquished by ...
Description: Amending the act of August 5, 1977 (P.L.181, No.47), entitled "An act providing for the acceptance by the Governor of jurisdiction relinq ...
Last Action: Re-committed to Appropriations
Last Action Date: Feb 3, 2026
Guns Can Be Taken From Nonviolent Felons Under Second Amendment :: 06/08/2019
The Second Amendment doesn’t prevent the government from taking guns away from nonviolent felons, the Seventh Circuit said June 6.
Nonviolent felons are not the type of “law-abiding, responsible citizens” protected by the amendment under District of Columbia v. Heller, the opinion by Judge Frank H. Easterbrook said.
A federal statute prevents any person convicted of felony from possessing firearms. Larry Hatfield, who was convicted of fraudulently receiving Railroad Retirement Board benefits and sentenced to three years probation, argued...
