Constitutional Right to Install Bulletproof Glass?
8th June 2022
But despite this, Philadelphia seems to be trying to restrict one important form of defending life and liberty (and protecting property): bulletproof barriers that help shield employees from robbers or other attackers.
The just-enacted Bill 170963 would have originally banned them outright in eating and drinking establishments that seat at least 30 customers. (These restaurants are also the ones that, under Pennsylvania law, can get licenses to serve beer, though not all such large restaurants do sell beer; the law seems aimed at “beer & delis,” but apparently some local KFCs and Popeyes also have bulletproof barriers.) The bill was ultimately amended to call on the city’s Department of Licenses and Inspections to “promulgate regulations to provide for the use or removal” of such barriers — but that Department seems to support broadly restricting them them; it thus seems likely that the regulations will provide for more removal than use.