Allegheny County Sportsmen's League v. Rendell
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 860 A.2d 10
👎Unfavorable to gun rights
Left the State Police handgun-sales database in place and dismissed the challenge for failure to state a claim.
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What the court held
Gun owners and sportsmen's groups sued to force the Pennsylvania State Police to stop maintaining and to destroy its database of handgun sales, arguing it was a prohibited registry of firearm ownership under the Uniform Firearms Act. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court affirmed the dismissal of the complaint on demurrer, reading Section 6111(b)(1.1)(v)'s destruction requirement to reach only long guns and holding that a record limited to handgun sales by licensed dealers is not a "registry of firearm ownership" barred by Section 6111.4. Two justices would have allowed the Section 6111.4 claim to proceed on the view that the statute bars partial registries as well.
Summarized from the court's opinion.
What this case is about
Pennsylvania State Police database of handgun sales under the Uniform Firearms Act
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Key Dates
- 2004-10-19 — Decided
Sources
- CourtListener — retrieved 2026-08-08
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