Q: Contradiction on Findlaw.com over Stand Your Ground, and Castle Doctrine in Pensylvannia. Does PA support S.Y.G or not?
My fiance and I are planning a move to PA and I was looking up laws that might pertain to our family in the future. On Findlaw.com it states that PA "is not one of the states that have stand your ground laws, but the state does follow the castle doctrine, which shares similar traits." Upon further digging PA actually does show up on the list of states that passed a Stand Your Ground law. So which is it?
http://statelaws.findlaw.com/pennsylvania-law/pennsylvania-self-defense-laws.html
http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-law-basics/states-that-have-stand-your-ground-laws.html
A: You have asked the right person in a sense... I am the US Law Shield gun rights lawyer for Maryland, but I am not the attorney for PA. You should post this in PA rather than MD.
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