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PAFOA Forum Breaks 20,000 Registered Users

I’m quite pleased to announce that PAFOA (the forum specifically) has reached a new milestone in it’s existence, reaching 20,000 registered users!

When PAFOA was created, it was designed around a community model with the goal of allowing people to help people without requiring that someone be at the top involved in everything. Looking back over the last 3 years I am happy to say that Pennsylvania gun owners have taken that model and run with it, accomplishing more together than any one of us could ever do alone.

You have been instrumental in tanking gun-control legislation proposed by those who would strip us of our freedoms in the state legislature, you have helped friends and neighbors stand up for their rights, and you have strengthened my belief in the future of the right to keep and bear arms in Pennsylvania and the United States.

We still have a lot of work to do and our job will never end, but thank you all for your support and your involvement,

Daniel Pehrson, Founder & President, Pennsylvania Firearm Owners Association

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June 24 2009 1:11:48 PM
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Preemption upheld in Pennsylvania Court

The NRA has prevailed in the appeal of Philadelphia’s firearms regulations in Commonwealth Court.   The decision can be found here.  NRA tried to restore standing to challenge the other ordinances, including “Lost and Stolen,” but Commonwealth Court did not reverse the lower court’s decision on that matter, but did uphold the decision on the assault weapons ban, and one-gun-a-month ordinances.

This ruling sets us up very nicely for a future court battle on all these Lost and Stolen ordinances, provided the Supreme Court is unwilling to revisit Ortiz, which I suspect it won’t.  The City of Philadelphia is losing on virtually all their arguments.  These ordinances were never about lost and stolen guns, straw purchasers or assault weapons, but were merely a means for the City to regain the ability to violate the Pennsylvania Constitution at will, so it could ban guns.  It’s looking increasingly unlikely that ploy will work.

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June 18 2009 8:58:02 PM
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