Williams gun license fee increase amendment

===Williams gun license fee increase amendment===
Opposes HB 2799 P4293 
Increasing the penalty for criminals is fine.
Traps for the innocent, including gun owners, is not okay.
Example: A twenty-year-old National Guardsman lives in
Philadelphia and owns an AR-15 to maintain his life
saving skills. He wants to go to the shooting range
for target practice so he locks his unloaded rifle
into a gun case and walks across and down the street
to where his car is parked. Under this legislation
this perfectly harmless activity would be a felony.
The Williams amendment to this bill creates an
additional injustice: It would increase the price of a
Pennsylvania License to Carry Firearms that is issued
in Philadelphia from $20 to $154. "Any fee is an
unconstitutional abridgement of our right to
self-defense, but this draconian increase is a
back-door attempt by anti-gun zealots to price many
law-abiding Philadelphians right out of the ability to
protect themselves" stated David Jahn, Chairman of the
LPPA.
"The Pennsylvania Constitution is clear. The right to
keep and bear arms shall not be questioned. Why should
anyone have to pay $154 dollars to protect
themselves?" said James Babb, Chair of the Montgomery
County Libertarian Committee. "Like all gun control
laws, this bill will only affect law abiding citizens,
not criminals. It will make people less safe." "We do
not object to increasing the penalty for VIOLENT
criminals."
The increase will be used to fund a so-called "gun
buyback" program. The CDC did an extensive study of
Gun Buyback programs and was unable to find evidence
that they have any effect in reducing crime. Gun
Buyback programs are anti-gun rights propaganda that spreads the discredited message that
guns cause crime. Legislators are being asked to
force law abiding gun owners to fund this propaganda.
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