Three months after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down a law allowing the National Rifle Association and other gun groups to sue municipalities over local gun regulations, state lawmakers are attempting to bring back a nearly identical replacement.
The high court said in June that Act 192, passed in the waning days of Republican Gov. Tom Corbett’s administration in 2014, violated the single-subject rule of the Pennsylvania Constitution because it also dealt with criminal penalties for the theft of metals. Both chambers of the General Assembly immediately went to work on stand-alone bills to accomplish the same result, and the House of Representatives on Sept. 20 passed HB 2258 out of the judiciary committee with a bipartisan, 21-6 vote.
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