Pennsylvania Gun Rights Announces Opposition to Governor Shapiro’s Gun Owner Surveillance Slush Fund in PA Budget
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Pennsylvania Gun Rights – the state affiliate of the National Association for Gun Rights – announced their opposition today, to several aspects of Governor Josh Shapiro’s proposed budget containing various forms of gun control.
“If Governor Shapiro and Speaker McClinton have their way, a 1.5-million-dollar taxpayer financed slush fund could be used to harass law-abiding firearm retailers and to spy on the social media accounts of countless pro-gun Pennsylvanians across the state,” explained Craig Storrs, Jr., Executive Director for Pennsylvania Gun Rights.
Storrs highlighted language in Governor Shapiro’s budget to direct a $1.5 million staffing increase for the Pennsylvania State Police and Pennsylvania Criminal Intelligence Center (PaCIC) that would create “auditors” to target firearm retailers while expanding the PaCIC’s social media monitoring.
“This development should alarm Pennsylvania gun owners and all persons concerned about governmental intrusion in their personal lives,” Storrs warned.
Pennsylvania Gun Rights has been mobilizing Second Amendment supporters across the Keystone State against the “Red Flag” Gun confiscation bill HB 1018 and the “Assault Weapons” Ban HB 336 in addition to several other pieces of the gun control lobby’s agenda.
With the open-ended language in the proposed budget, Pennsylvania Gun Rights is sounding the alarm about how this language could be an attempt at back-door gun control designed to bypass the traditional legislative process that has stifled the gun control lobby’s agenda so far this session.
“Governor Shapiro neglects to define, in any meaningful way, what a ‘problem firearms retailer’ is. He merely assigns sweeping blame for gun violence on firearms retailers without any proof to support it,” Storrs explained.
“That begs the question, is Shapiro planning on sending in enforcers from the State Police to bully and intimidate whoever he deems to be ‘problem firearms retailers’?” Storrs concluded.
Pistol on nightstand for decades fired for first time
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In 1986, a homeowner laid a gun on his nightstand in case his life was ever threatened.
Thirty years passed by without incident. The homeowner had never even fired the gun.
But one night, a burglar wearing a skeleton mask and gloves broke into the man’s home and charged into his bedroom, demanding money.
The homeowner, by then over 80 years old, told the burglar he didn’t have any money.
Enraged, the burglar attacked the elderly man.
But the victim grabbed the firearm on the nightstand and fired one shot, striking the burglar and instantly ending his assault.
The attacker fled, but succumbed to his gunshot wound just outside of the home he had invaded.
No charges were filed against the homeowner.
Philly restaurant owner stops two masked robbers
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Two armed, masked men burst into a Philadelphia restaurant and announced they were robbing the business.
The store’s surveillance cameras captured the holdup as the crooks began stealing cash.
But their spree ended when one of the store owners pulled out his own handgun, and opened fire – sending both of them running.
The outdoors surveillance camera recorded the crooks climbing a fence to get away, but one was hit by the owner.
“People do have a right to bear arms. The owner was just protecting his family,” said Philadelphia Police Lt. John Walker.
Investigators also found that the suspects had tried to cut the wires to a surveillance camera, but failed to disable the system. running.