The judgment of the court said that a Pennsylvania statute was written to preempt the field. A dissenting opinion argued that with differing levels of gun violence between urban and rural areas, state law should allow for variation in gun regulation.
May 27, 2022 at 03:46 PM
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The original version of this story was published on The Legal Intelligencer
Pennsylvania municipalities can’t enact gun control laws more stringent than those approved at the state level, the Commonwealth Court has decided.
In two opinions involving gun control in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and filed on Thursday and Friday, respectively, Judge Patricia McCullough, writing the judgment of the court, ruled that the Pennsylvania Uniform Firearms Act is intended to leave all firearm regulation up to the state legislature.
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