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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania Game Commission has given preliminary approval to letting hunters use semi-automatic rifles and shotguns. Tuesday's move comes in the wake of a new law Gov. Tom Wolf signed in November, that gives the game commission the authority to regulate semi-automatic rifles, shotguns and air guns. The commission will hold a final vote on the measure at its next quarterly meeting March 27-28 in Harrisburg. The use of semi-automatic rifles for hunting has been debated by legislators in some form since 2011. The game commission has studied the use of semi-automatic weapons by hunters in neighboring states and concluded there's no decrease in hunter safety.

Pennsylvania hunters get preliminary OK on semi-automatics