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In the past three months, Pennsylvania residents have tried to buy 97 firearms every hour. Additionally, the number of requests this quarter through the Pennsylvania Instant Check System (PICS) is up 26 percent from last year. Since PICS was established in 1998, the number of background checks has incrementally increased from 200,000 at it inception to over a million by 2013. That was mostly due to the post-Sandy Hook talk about gun control (via Penn Live)... |
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kangpc
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Matt the Wasp, though touted as an investigative reporter, is a little behind the times.
West Virginia, Pennsylvania's neighbor to the south, and Maine, which is certainly in the "Northeastern part of the country," both recently enacted "Constitutional Carry." |
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