In the first quarter of 2021, the Pennsylvania Instant Check System completed 427,450 background checks. That’s up 40.2 percent from January through March 2020.
In 2020, Philadelphia authorities recovered 99 ghost guns out of the almost 5,000 “crime guns” police removed from city streets.
The Philadelphia Police Department reported 64 homicides as of today, a 33% increase compared this time to last year.
Current Pennsylvania law prohibits city governments from regulating the possession and transportation of firearms and ammunition. That means city councils do not have the power to restrict firearm access in government buildings.
Police are investigating after gunshots were apparently fired through the front window of a Democratic Party office in a suburban Philadelphia county.
Dealers from Northampton to York counties all say they’re serving dozens of customers per day.
State police said earlier that a man firing shots at the State Gamelands gun range in Greene Township on Dec. 22 began firing at another man and was then shot to death by a third man.
Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat who has advocated for broader gun control measures, opposes the bills.
