{"id":18674,"date":"2016-11-25T09:01:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T17:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/pennsylvania-hunters-can-use-semi-automatic-weapons\/"},"modified":"2016-11-25T09:01:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T17:01:06","slug":"pennsylvania-hunters-can-use-semi-automatic-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/pennsylvania-hunters-can-use-semi-automatic-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania hunters can use semi-automatic weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HARRISBURG, Pa. \u2014<\/strong> Gov. Tom Wolf has signed a bill into law that expands the list of firearms permitted for hunting in Pennsylvania to include semi-automatic rifles and handguns.<\/p>\n<p>The new law doesn\u2019t make semi-automatic weapons legal for hunting in time for the upcoming firearm deer season, which begins Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Semi-automatic firearms discharge one shot for each pull of the trigger. The next cartridge is automatically pushed into the firing chamber.<\/p>\n<p>The use of semi-automatic rifles for hunting has been debated by legislators in some form since 2011. With its approval, Pennsylvania becomes the 49th state to allow hunters to use them.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Scott Hutchinson, a Venango Republican and co-sponsor of the bill, says he\u2019s pleased the measure is now law.<\/p>\n<p>Gun violence prevention association CeaseFire Pa remained neutral on the legislation.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, Pa. \u2014 Gov. Tom Wolf has signed a bill into law that expands the list of firearms permitted for hunting in Pennsylvania to include semi-automatic rifles and handguns. The new law doesn\u2019t make semi-automatic weapons legal for hunting in time for the upcoming firearm deer season, which begins Monday. Semi-automatic firearms discharge one shot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[149],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-18674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-outdoors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18674"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}