Wednesday, April 10, 2013
In a bill co-sponsored by West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, criminal and mental health background checks would be required for sales at gun shows and online.
Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey (R) and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin (D) co-sponsored an across-the-aisle bill Wednesday that expands background checks for gun buyers. "Criminal background checks are just common sense," Toomey said in a statement on his website. "If you pass a criminal background check, you can buy a gun. It's the people who fail a criminal or mental health background check that we don't want having guns. That can be done without infringing on law-abiding people's gun rights. And we ought to do it." According to USA Today, the Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act would require criminal background checks for firearms purchased at gun shows and online and penalize states that do not add records of felons …
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
The Newtown, CT school shooting has spurred some retailers to suspend gun sales.
Christmas shopping for the outdoorsman may be a little different this year. Dick's Sporting Goods has suspended sales of semi-automatic weapons at its stores following the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, CT, according to a report from CNN. The chain includes 511 stores in 44 states, and posted this message to its web site: We are extremely saddened by the unspeakable tragedy that occurred last week in Newtown, CT, and our hearts go out to the victims and their families, and to the entire community. Out of respect for the victims and their families, during this time of national mourning we have removed all guns from sale and from display in our store nearest to Newtown and suspended the sale of modern sporting rifles in all …
Friday, October 19, 2012
The Council Rock School Board is at odds regarding an amendment to district policy that would restrict guns at the Chancellor Center.
The Council Rock School Board continues to be at odds about the issue of guns and their appropriateness on district-owned property. The topic again dominated the Council Rock School Board meeting, the latest of which was Thursday. The discussion was a continuation from the last board meeting, in which some board members strongly urged clarifying district policy to restrict guns at the Chancellor Center. In the end, the board decided not to take action to amend district policy because of the possibility of infringing on the public’s second amendment right to bear arms. State law already prohibits guns at district schools. However, some board members said they felt it should be clear that firearms are also not permitted at the Chancellor …
Friday, October 5, 2012
“For the last year, I have felt unsafe sitting at this dais,” Council Rock School Board member Bernadette Heenan said Thursday.
The Council Rock School Board will review district policy to include language that restricts anyone from bringing a gun to the Chancellor Center, where the board meetings are held. Guns are already prohibited at district schools. However, some board members said they felt it should be clear that firearms are also not permitted at the Chancellor Center, a district-owned property. In addition to being the site of the meetings, the Chancellor Center is home to district administrative offices. “For the last year, I have felt unsafe sitting at this dais,” board member Bernadette Heenan said. She initially asked that the board meetings be transferred to a school building so as to ensure no firearms would be present. “I will not come back to …
James Kephart Jr.
1:52 pm on Friday, April 12, 2013
I disagree. I could come up with piles of gov't regulation that would save one life if we were willing to sacrifice some more of our freedoms. I would start with my favorite : you want to save lives, take away my right to drive my car faster than 90 mph. Very easy thing the government could do, yet nobody seems to approve of that. And that would actually save thousands of lives every year. Or how… more ›