PA Bill Number: HB2259
Title: Providing for actions not permissible in a courthouse; and imposing penalties.
Description: Providing for actions not permissible in a courthouse; and imposing penalties. ...
Last Action: Referred to Judiciary
Last Action Date: Mar 3, 2026
Guns Can Be Taken From Nonviolent Felons Under Second Amendment :: 06/08/2019
The Second Amendment doesn’t prevent the government from taking guns away from nonviolent felons, the Seventh Circuit said June 6.
Nonviolent felons are not the type of “law-abiding, responsible citizens” protected by the amendment under District of Columbia v. Heller, the opinion by Judge Frank H. Easterbrook said.
A federal statute prevents any person convicted of felony from possessing firearms. Larry Hatfield, who was convicted of fraudulently receiving Railroad Retirement Board benefits and sentenced to three years probation, argued...
