Things are moving at breakneck speed in Harrisburg and more help is need to try and stop this madness. First off here's what happened at the judiciary meeting yesterday:
The meeting started off by them saying there were too many bills so they were going to only do a few and reconvene Thursday to go over the rest.
Here what was voted on :
HB2060 - Domestic violence, passed with Republican support after being amended to include the text of SB500, SB501 & SB502
HB273 - Voluntary prohibition list maintained by PSP - passed after amended to remove the lifetime prohibition, now has 1, 3 & 5 years - passed with Republican support
HB2275 - firearm prohibition for conviction of conspiracy to commit several crimes - passed with Republican support
HB2463 - allowing anyone who has been 302'd to petition to regain their firearm rights - passed (this is the only 'good' bill heard today)
HB2227 - Emergency Relief Protections Orders. The Democrats pulled a fast on with this. They withheld an amendment (7721) until 10 minutes before the bill came up in committee. The amendment is a 'gut and replace' amendment that is 13 pages long. As Representative Saccone told us afterwards "There's no way in hell you could read and understand this amendment in 10 minutes" - This bill also passed with Republican support (not all but enough)
After meeting with Representatives that are not on the committee we are here to tell you they are madder than hell. The felling most have is this is being pushed by Speaker Turzai and his office. As one rep told us "Marsico doesn't do anything unless leadership tells him to"
Now, the other bills, including the universal background check bills and the bump stock ban bill have been pushed back to the Thursday meeting so we are NOT done by any stretch of the imagination, we HAVE to keep up the pressure!
Also we learned after the meeting that the Democrats intend to 'fast track' the bills that they voted on today. They are looking for first consideration tomorrow, second consideration on Thursday and a final vote on Tuesday.
Why? Because they don't want ANY Amendments that would screw up their bills and want as little input as possible ... they literally want to ram them through before anyone can think.
And then today:
The judiciary held what is basically an illegal committee meeting this morning (they never posted it publicly) and voted on HB1400 (universal background checks) and HB1872 (multi-burst trigger activators). Here are the votes:
HB1400 - failed by ONE VOTE (13 yeas 14 nays) with quite a few Republicans voting yea
HB1872 - passed by one vote (14 yeas 13 nays) with again quite a few Republicans voting yea
HB1400 and yesterday's HB2227 (ERPOs) have been refereed to the rules committee which is controlled by the speaker of the house Mike Turzai
We also know there are quite a few decent Republicans preparing massive amendments to all the anti-gun bills that have passed committee to try and shut them down.
Again we still need EVERYONE to get on the phone (emails are worthless at this point) and tell these legislators to kill these bills
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