The Pennsylvania Senate Tuesday afternoon passed by a 34-16 vote a bill that would allow membership organizations such as the NRA to sue municipalities on behalf of aggrieved members over gun ordinances that are already preempted by state law.

The House considered amendments to similar legislation that was ultimately unchanged despite several dozen amendments being filed to the proposal.

An amendment to House Bill 80 that would provide standing to membership organizations to challenge municipal gun ordinances when members are aggrieved by the ordinances garnered a lot of debate before it was adopted on the Senate floor Wednesday night.

The full bill, with amendment, passed the full Senate Thursday by a vote of 34-14.

After more than an hour of debate, an amendment by Sen. Richard Alloway (R-Franklin) to House Bill 80 that would allow municipal gun ordinances to be challenged in court by pro-Second Amendment gun rights groups ultimately passed by a vote of 32-16.

According to Sen. Alloway, the amendment would prohibit municipalities from adopting ordinances antithetical to the Second Amendment to the US Constitution and similar provisions in the Pennsylvania Constitution and give standing to membership organizations to challenge the ordinances on behalf of aggrieved members if their rights are violated by the municipality.