PA: Year in Review

By Val Finnell

2024 Recap and 2025 Preview
I wanted to take a few minutes of your time to recap 2024 and provide you with a preview of what’s in store for gun owners in the 2025-2026 Pennsylvania legislative session.
Legislative Victories
GOA members and supporters stopped ALL gun control pushed by Speaker Joanna McClinton and her cohort of anti-gun Democrats during the 2023-2024 legislative session.
We defeated three bills on the House floor: Mandatory reporting of lost and stolen firearms, a ban on accelerated trigger activators, and a bill that would have created an electronic gun registry.
Unfortunately, three bills passed in the House with Republican support: A ban on homemade firearms, Universal Registration Checks, and Red Flag Gun Confiscation orders. All three of these bills were stalled in the Senate.
Other legislative victories included:

Stripped gun control out of Governor Shapiro’s annual budget.
Prevented a bill that would have banned Glock switches from being introduced by now-retired Rep. Barry Jozwiak (R-5).

Election Victories
The GOA Pennsylvania team coordinated a massive, 675K text message campaign in partnership with Hunter Nation to mobilize hunters and gun owners in the 2024 Presidential election, helping to defeat Kamala Harris. GOA mobilized thousands of pro-gun voters in Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Wisconsin in this campaign.
Down-ballot, GOA-endorsed candidate

Source: Gun Owners of America