Pennsylvania municipalities can’t enact gun control laws more stringent than those approved at the state level, the Commonwealth Court has decided.

In two opinions involving gun control in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and filed on Thursday and Friday, respectively, Judge Patricia McCullough, writing the judgment of the court, ruled that the Pennsylvania Uniform Firearms Act is intended to leave all firearm regulation up to the state legislature.

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