PRINTER'S NO. 498
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
498
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY EICHELBERGER, BROOKS, VOGEL, RESCHENTHALER,
VULAKOVICH, SCAVELLO, WARD, STEFANO, WAGNER, SCARNATI,
GORDNER, HUTCHINSON, LANGERHOLC, FOLMER AND WHITE,
MARCH 10, 2017
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, MARCH 10, 2017
AN ACT
Protecting from infringement the individual right of the
citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to bear arms as
provided in section 21 of Article I of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Short title.
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Right to Bear
Arms Act.
Section 2. Findings.
The General Assembly finds and declares that:
(1) The Constitution of Pennsylvania, and its protection
of the right to bear arms, predate the Constitution of the
United States.
(2) It is an established canon of judicial construction
that a state constitution may not offer less protection of
individual rights than the Constitution of the United States,
but it can afford more protections.
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