{"id":49107,"date":"2015-12-16T00:19:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T05:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=49107"},"modified":"2015-12-16T00:19:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T04:58:00","slug":"pennsylvania-bill-would-require-purchase-permit-for-handguns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/pennsylvania-bill-would-require-purchase-permit-for-handguns\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Bill Would Require Purchase Permit for Handguns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_49108\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Haywood.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"pennsylvania-bill-would-require-purchase-permit-for-handguns\" title=\"Pennsylvania Bill Would Require Purchase Permit for Handguns\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49108\" title=\"Pennsylvania Bill Would Require Purchase Permit for Handguns\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49108\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Haywood-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Art Haywood.  (Photo: LancasterOnline)\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Haywood-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Haywood-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Haywood.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-49108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Art Haywood. (Photo: <em>LancasterOnline<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(<strong>Editor&#8217;s note:<\/strong> <em>This article was a submission from freelance writer Mike Doran<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania could become the latest state to require an eligibility license to purchase handguns if legislation<a href=\"https:\/\/lancasteronline.com\/news\/pennsylvania\/pa-legislation-would-require-residents-to-obtain-firearms-eligibility-license\/article_44041dae-a348-11e5-a24f-8b2b64fe9d2d.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"pennsylvania-bill-would-require-purchase-permit-for-handguns\" title=\"Pennsylvania Bill Would Require Purchase Permit for Handguns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> introduced this week<\/a> becomes law.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Bill 1029, presented by Sen. Art Haywood on Monday, would require anyone wishing to purchase a handgun to first purchase an eligibility license. The licensee must reside in the state and be at least 18 years of age, have completed a firearms safety course within the last three years, and pass a fingerprint background check at a law enforcement office.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement officers, as well as active and retired members of the armed forces, would be exempt from the requirement. In the current language of the bill, residents who already own handguns would have to comply with the legislation if it becomes law. However, Sen. Haywood\u2019s communications director remarked that the senator would be willing to change the bill so that only new handgun purchasers must comply.<\/p>\n<p>Haywood characterized the current laws as \u201cunconscionably easy for dangerous Pennsylvanians to get their hands on deadly guns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ease of obtaining handguns, in particular, is having a brutal impact on our neighbors,\u201d he added, \u201cand legislators who do nothing to stop it are complicit in the killings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvanians must already undergo a background check when purchasing firearms through a system called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psp.pa.gov\/firearms-information\/Pages\/Pennsylvania-Instant-Checks-System---PICS.aspx#.VnDmw-LYRT8 (PICS)\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"pennsylvania-bill-would-require-purchase-permit-for-handguns\" title=\"Pennsylvania Bill Would Require Purchase Permit for Handguns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pennsylvania Instant Check System<\/a> (PICS). Last year PICS almost processed 900,000 background check requests. Of those, 354,603 were handgun purchases or transfers.<\/p>\n<p>The fee for a license would be $50 and $30 to renew every five years.<\/p>\n<p>Monday, of course, was the third anniversary of the horrific Sandy Hook shooting in Connecticut, and by introducing his legislation on this day Sen. Haywood intended to draw upon the emotions invoked by that tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>Connecticut has since<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cga.ct.gov\/2013\/rpt\/2013-R-0001.htm\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"pennsylvania-bill-would-require-purchase-permit-for-handguns\" title=\"Pennsylvania Bill Would Require Purchase Permit for Handguns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> drastically stepped-up their gun control<\/a> because of the shooting, and current laws also require the buyer to have a purchaser license. But none of these laws would have prevented Adam Lanza from committing the massacre as all of the firearms used were purchased by his mother, whom he also murdered.<\/p>\n<p>The moral of the story is, of course, that gun laws don\u2019t prevent criminals bent on destruction, and adding yet another layer of feel-good background checks that only law-abiding citizens would bother with doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Haywood still argues his legislation is not intended to punish responsible gun owners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs legislators and as community members, it is up to us to respond to gun violence with laws that save lives,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Other states that have similar eligibility licensing include the liberal paradises of Illinois, New Jersey, New York, and the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania could become the latest state to require an eligibility license to purchase handguns, if legislation introduced this week becomes law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":49108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[244,7,25,216,240],"tags":[132,122],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-2nd-amendment-r2kba","8":"category-gunsamerica-authors","9":"category-current-events","10":"category-s-h-blannelberry","11":"category-this-week","12":"tag-buzz","13":"tag-r2kba"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pennsylvania Bill Would Require Purchase Permit for Handguns<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pennsylvania could become the latest state to require an eligibility license to purchase handguns, if legislation introduced this week becomes law.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/pennsylvania-bill-would-require-purchase-permit-for-handguns\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pennsylvania Bill Would Require Purchase Permit for Handguns\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pennsylvania could become the latest state to require an eligibility license to purchase handguns, if legislation introduced this week becomes law.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/pennsylvania-bill-would-require-purchase-permit-for-handguns\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gun Reviews and News | GunsAmerica.com\/Digest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-12-16T05:19:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-19T04:58:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Haywood.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"S.H. 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