HB777 would amend the Uniform Firearms Act to prohibit the purchase, sale, and production of firearm or firearm parts without serial numbers.
The House passed HB777 on March 27, 2024, by a vote of 104 to 97. We have assigned pluses to the nays because this blatantly unconstitutional bill seeks to eliminate so-called “ghost guns,” which do not have a state or federally traceable serial number. Both the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment protect the rights of law-abiding Pennsylvanians to possess, produce, purchase, or sell their own “private property,” such as homemade firearms created for the purpose of self-defense, without needing to be “licensed” by the government. In fact, the Second Amendment specifically guarantees, under no qualification, that “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”