HB1953 • 2025

An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in firearms and other dangerous articles, further providing for licenses.

Firearms

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: MAKO
Last action: 2025-10-16
Official status: Referred to JUDICIARY, Oct. 16, 2025
Effective date: Not listed

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An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in firearms and other dangerous articles, further providing for licenses.

What This Bill Does

An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in firearms and other dangerous articles, further providing for licenses.

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Bill History

2025-10-16 JUDICIARY
Referred to JUDICIARY, Oct. 16, 2025

Official Summary Text

An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in firearms and other dangerous articles, further providing for licenses.

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PRINTER'S NO. 2461
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1953
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY MAKO, BERNSTINE AND STENDER, OCTOBER 15, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, OCTOBER 16, 2025
AN ACT
Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in firearms and other dangerous
articles, further providing for licenses.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 6109(b) of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 6109. Licenses.
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(b) Place of application.--An individual who is 21 years of
age or older may apply to a sheriff for a license to carry a
firearm concealed on or about his person or in a vehicle within
this Commonwealth. If the applicant is a resident of this
Commonwealth, he shall make application with the [sheriff of the
county in which he resides] sheriff's office closest to the
applicant's principal residence where the individual lives for
the majority of the year and maintains as a permanent residence,
or, if a resident of a city of the first class, with the chief
of police of that city.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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