Fellow Advocate,

I’m coming to you with some breaking news: Today, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the federal bump stock ban[1] enacted in response to the worst mass shooting in our nation’s history, in Las Vegas in 2017. Now I urgently need you to contact your state legislators and demand a statewide law to ban bump stocks in Pennsylvania and protect our communities.

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This disastrous decision makes bump stocks legal in at least 34 states[2], including Pennsylvania, setting our nation on a deadly path. But I need to be clear about one thing: as it pertains to our Commonwealth, this path might have been paved by SCOTUS today, but first it was cleared by the PA House of Representatives.

On May 7, by a margin of just one vote, the Pennsylvania House failed to pass a bill banning bump stocks statewide[3]. The lethal irony here is that the main argument made in Harrisburg that day by opponents of the bill was this: a state-level ban that would allow District Attorneys to prosecute individuals for owning bump stocks is unnecessary because there’s already a federal ban in place. Well, not anymore. Today’s ruling takes their failure last month from reckless to deadly.

Our lawmakers betrayed and endangered us, and we must demand course correction NOW. Will you join our call for the General Assembly to immediately advance legislation banning bump stocks in our Commonwealth and safeguarding our communities from mass violence? Click here to send an emergency message to your State Representative and Senator Nikil Saval, urging them to step up to the plate and move legislation forward to protect us from deadly homemade machine guns.

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Standing with you,
Adam Garber
Executive Director
CeaseFirePA

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