Call it the battle of the background checks.
The push to close loopholes in state firearms laws to make background checks applicable to private sales that now fall outside the law hit Harrisburg yesterday.
That's when busloads of people from Delaware County showed up to rally support for the legislation.
But one of the most telling aspects of the scene was who was addressing the crowd.
Yes, that was two local Republican elected leaders talking about their support for the bill.
Both state Rep. James Santora, R-163, of Upper Darby, and newly elected state Sen. Tom Killion, R-9, of Middletown, both addressed the crowd and pledged their support for the measure.
That, likely more than anything else that was said yesterday, tells me this legislation has a chance to succeed where so many other gun control bills failed.
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