Every Republican member voted against both bills on Tuesday along with Rep. Frank Burns, D-Cambria County.
In a relatively rare occurrence, two firearms bills — one that would ban “bump stocks” and similar devices, and another requiring gun sales records to be filed electronically — failed final floor votes in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Tuesday.
While legislative leaders typically have a strong sense of their vote counts before bringing bills up for a final passage vote, gun legislation represents an uncommon instance where the majority has faltered. Democratic leadership filed reconsideration requests immediately after Tuesday’s vote, allowing the bills to be brought up again in the future.
An attempt by federal regulators to ban the stocks under current law was struck down last year by a federal appeals court, which found that Congress would have to change the law to enact such a ban. The second bill that failed to win a majority on Tuesday would require that gun dealers submit their sales records to theelectronically under a system the state began piloting in 2019. Only small dealers who sell 20 or fewer guns per year could continue to use the paper mail-in filing system.
As in previous gun legislation debates, Republicans accused Democrats of using the bills to deflect from soft-on-crime policies in Philadelphia and elsewhere, which they maintain are the root of the gun violence problem as opposed to guns per se.
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