Legal gun owners’ rights: What Pennsylvania gun laws say about confronting an active shooter
Updated: 6:59 PM EDT Oct 26, 2023
A continuing surge of mass shooting incidents has resulted in large numbers of applications for gun licenses in Pennsylvania during the past several years.Pennsylvania State Police say 1.6 million licenses have been issued in the commonwealth, but gun owners need to know the law if caught in a situation where there is an active shooter.”If it’s to help other people, you do have the right to use the firearm, but once police get there, you should definitely keep your hands away from your firearm and identify yourself as not the shooter, because if we know that there’s an active shooter in that area, whoever has the firearm is a suspect because we’re not sure,” said Trooper Bertha Cazy, with Troop D in Butler.Criminal defense attorney Phil DiLucente says he has represented at least 100 clients related to firearms.”And you think there’s serious bodily injury and or death that may come your way or someone else’s way, and it’s imminent, you can use it,” he said about confronting an active shooter.
A continuing surge of mass shooting incidents has resulted in large numbers of applications for gun licenses in Pennsylvania during the past several years.
Pennsylvania State Police say 1.6 million licenses have been issued in the commonwealth, but gun owners need to know the law if caught in a situation where there is an active shooter.
“If it’s to help other people, you do have the right to use the firearm, but once police get there, you should definitely keep your hands away from your firearm and identify yourself as not the shooter, because if we know that there’s an active shooter in that area, whoever has the firearm is a suspect because we’re not sure,” said Trooper Bertha Cazy, with Troop D in Butler.
Criminal defense attorney Phil DiLucente says he has represented at least 100 clients related to firearms.
“And you think there’s serious bodily injury and or death that may come your way or someone else’s way, and it’s imminent, you can use it,” he said about confronting an active shooter.
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