Overview

• House Bill 1593, expanding background checks to private sales of long guns, passed 104–99 after a mostly party-line vote.
• Two high-profile measures failed 101–102: an Extreme Risk Protection Order bill and a proposal requiring at least one metal component in firearms to target ghost guns.
• Democrat Frank Burns joined Republicans to oppose the two failed bills, casting the decisive votes in the narrowly divided chamber.
• A separate bill to ban devices that convert firearms into machine guns received second consideration and awaits a final vote.
• Some suburban Republicans backed the background-check bill, while Bucks County Republicans Joe Hogan and Kathleen Tomlinson opposed the red-flag measure despite supporting a similar bill in 2023.