Rep. Arvind Venkat (D-McCandless) is an emergency physician who says a safe gun storage law could have prevented the death of a young child his hospital admitted. He spoke alongside other gun-reform ...

Pennsylvania lawmakers passed a bill to require background checks for private sales of rifles and shotguns. Two other gun control measures, a red flag law and a ban on "ghost guns," narrowly failed to ...

The Philadelphia skyline at night. (Photo by Peter Hall/Capital-Star) A Philadelphia man’s conviction for openly carrying a gun has led Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court to reexamine a state law that ...

A Philadelphia judge upheld the city’s ban on gun modifiers like switches and bump stocks, a rare legal win amid ongoing state preemption battles. FILE - A bump stock is displayed in Harrisonburg, Va.

After a high profile string of deadly shootings, Democratic lawmakers in the state House are moving to tighten Pennsylvania’s firearm laws. The House Judiciary committee passed four bills on Monday.

Bloomsburg, Pa. — Today, State Rep. Robert Leadbeter (R-Columbia) announced he has introduced legislation to prohibit Red Flag laws in Pennsylvania. “One of the greatest potential abuses inflicted on ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NORRISTOWN — A Philadelphia man was sent to prison after he admitted to purchasing eight firearms for the ringleader of a multi-county gun trafficking ...

I grew up in rural Pennsylvania, where firearms were part of daily life. My earliest memories were not of fear, but of tradition — deer season with family, careful lessons about responsibility, and ...