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Scientific article published on 01 January 1991
Open carry of long guns is generally legal across Pennsylvania without a license, but Philadelphia has long been treated as an exception that required a license to carry—open or concealed—on public st...
Since the Pennsylvania Superior Court’s June 2025 decision in Commonwealth v. Sumpter vacated a Philadelphia open‑carry conviction as unconstitutional “as applied,” enforcement has been uneven: courts...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has not yet resolved Commonwealth v. Sumpter and has not issued a statewide ruling invalidating Philadelphia’s open‑carry licensing rule; the Pennsylvania Superior Court...
Public court records tied to Philip (Phil) Godlewski exist in multiple public-reporting sources and online docket aggregators: reporting and court dockets show a 2010 criminal case in Lackawanna Count...
Available sources do not show any clear record of a person named Kent Frantzve being a party in widely reported legal cases or high‑profile controversies; the main result mentioning “Kent Frantzve” is...
The Pennsylvania Superior Court, in Commonwealth v. Sumpter, vacated Riyadh Sumpter’s conviction and held that 18 Pa.C.S. § 6108—the statute requiring a special license to openly carry a firearm in Ph...
There is no reporting in the provided sources that Travis Collins—who was publicly tried in 2025 in Dauphin County for the alleged homicide at the Harrisburg Hilton—has filed a formal appeal or a post...