Accountability is coming for Rogue Cities (SB 822 Update)

Your relentless pressure worked!

The Senate Local Government Committee reported SB 822 on a 7-3 vote today. This brings us one massive step closer to strengthening Pennsylvania’s firearms preemption law and holding lawless local governments accountable.

For years, “gun grabbers” in cities like Philadelphia and Pittsburgh have treated our state preemption law like a suggestion rather than a mandate. They continue to pass illegal local gun control ordinances with zero fear of repercussions because they wrongly believe that gun owners like you and I don’t have the “teeth” in the law to hold them accountable.

But GOA and our members are holding them accountable.

As a reminder, SB 822 is “Preemption with Teeth!” It provides gun owners with the resources to end local gun control once and for all:

• RECOVER DAMAGES: If a court finds a local ordinance violates state law, the municipality must pay damages and attorney fees.
• PROTECT THE INNOCENT: It awards costs to unsuspecting citizens charged under illegal ordinances who are later acquitted.
• GOA CAN FIGHT FOR YOU: It allows membership organizations like GOA to sue on your behalf, stopping the “financial war of attrition” waged by Bloomberg-funded front organizations.

Rogue mayors and council members have the unlimited resources of Everytown USA and Bloomberg behind them. They want to bankrupt you in court just for exercising your constitutionally protected rights.

But SB 822 levels the playing field. It permanently ends the ability of local governments to pass illegal gun control without consequences.

The fight isn’t over yet! We must keep the pressure on the full Senate to schedule SB 822 for a final vote immediately.

That’s why I need you to send a message to your state senator (by using the form above). Let them know that gun owners demand local governments be held accountable for trampling on the constitutional rights of their citizens and urge them to pass SB 822 immediately.