PA House Passes Universal Registration Checks — Battle Moves to Senate

It was a high-stakes week in the Pennsylvania House, as lawmakers voted on four major gun control bills — with mixed results.

Here’s your breakdown of what passed, what was defeated, and what’s coming next in the fight for your Second Amendment rights.

The following anti-gun bill passed on the House floor and now moves to the PA Senate:

• HB 1593 (Universal Registration Checks) — Passed on a 104Y-99N vote. This bill would outlaw the private sale of long guns unless you get government permission first. It would also set the stage for a registry in Pennsylvania for all firearms transactions, just like there is for handguns presently. Five Republican representatives voted in favor of this bill, ensuring its passage: Joe Hogan, Kristen Marcell (who later changed her vote to NO, but this does not affect the final passage vote), K.C. Tomlinson, Martina White, and Craig Williams.

The following anti-gun bills were defeated on the House floor:

• HB 1099 (Undetectable Firearms) — Defeated on a 101Y-102N vote. This bill would have made it a 3rd degree felony to manufacture, import, sell, ship, deliver, possess, transfer, or receive a firearm made entirely of a non-metal substance.
• HB 1859 (Red Flag Gun Confiscation Orders) — Defeated on a 101Y-102N vote. This bill would have created Red Flag Gun Confiscation Orders, allowing “ex parte” star chamber proceedings where only one party presents evidence before a judge with no right to face the accuser until AFTER firearms are seized through an order by a pliant judge.
• HB 1866 (Glock Switch Ban) — Defeated on a 101Y-102N vote. Efforts to make “Glock switches” and other machine gun conversion devices triply illegal are nothing more than virtue-signaling. It will do absolutely nothing to prevent evil people from committing crimes since criminals ALREADY ignore the federal ban on these devices.

GOA members and supporters led the charge in defeating three of the four anti-gun bills. Thousands of messages flooded the Capitol, putting pressure on wavering lawmakers—and it worked. Your action made the difference.

Friend, the only thing standing between Pennsylvania and the kind of extreme anti-gun laws seen in New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland is a narrow pro-gun Republican majority in the State Senate. If that firewall breaks, our Second Amendment rights could fall with it.

That’s why I need you to contact your state senator by using the form above and urge them to STOP HB 1593 and ALL gun control bills. Let your senator know that anti-gun legislation should never see the light of day.