The Second Amendment Foundation and its co-plaintiffs are back before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in Schmidt v. Paris, pressing their challenge to a state regulatory scheme that forces firearms dealers to surrender basic constitutional protections to obtain and keep a Pennsylvania license to sell firearms.
At issue is a Pennsylvania State Police regulation, 37 Pa. Code § 33.116, and a Montgomery County policy tied to it. SAF says the scheme requires dealers to submit to warrantless inspections and, in practice, exposes them to detention, questioning, document demands, and potential license consequences for refusing to cooperate. SAF is joined by Shot Tec and private citizen Grant Schmidt, the same plaintiffs named in the original challenge filed in 2023.
In the new filing, SAF argues Pennsylvania law never authorized the State Police to create this kind of warrantless-search regime in the first place. The brief argues the Uniform Firearms Act contains no legislative grant for such inspections and argues that Section 33.116 cannot lawfully create powers the General Assembly never delegated.
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