And that’s exactly what transpired in the House this week.
A bill to ban bump stocks and other similar firearm accessories failed on a 101-100 vote. Legislators voted the measure up or down on almost a strictly party-line vote.
Rep. Bryan Cutler (R) argued during the debate over this measure that focusing on inanimate objects is the key to bringing down violent crime. “Look at the FBI crime statistics — actually putting criminals in jail is what works, not creating new crimes. Not by duplicating something that is already covered by federal law.”
Cutler had a valid point as bump stocks are currently illegal nationwide.
A proponent of the ban, state Rep. Ben Sanchez (D), claimed that certain aftermarket stocks and triggers should be regulated in the same fashion as machine guns.
And it was that same one-vote margin that shot down a mandate for federal firearm license holders (FFLs) to electronically report gun sales. A quick glance by the uninformed may not reveal the danger of this proposal, but it’s definitely there.
Does anyone truly believe that this reporting is not another rung in the ladder to an electronic database of gun owners? Paper copies have been in use for decades, but now anti-Second Amendment forces are trying everything they can imagine to cobble together an online registry.
Why?
Thankfully that is a question that does not have to be answered currently in Pennsylvania. But the narrow votes by which gun rights advocates were able to carry the day only signaled the danger of yet more infringements on the right to keep and bear arms.
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