PRINTER'S NO. 60
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
81
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY EICHELBERGER, BROOKS, VOGEL, RESCHENTHALER,
VULAKOVICH, SCAVELLO, WARD, STEFANO, WAGNER, SCARNATI,
GORDNER, HUTCHINSON, LANGERHOLC, FOLMER, WHITE AND AUMENT,
JANUARY 13, 2017
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, JANUARY 13, 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. Findings.
The General Assembly finds and declares that:
(1) The Constitution of Pennsylvania, and its protection
of the right to bear arms, predates 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.
(3) Section 21 of Article I of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania provides: "The right of the citizens to bear
arms in defense of themselves and the State shall not be
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