Sandy Hook Parents Invade NH Gun Rights Hearing
According to “boots on the ground” at the statehouse today, testimony was made before the House Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee from out-of-state groups hoping to encourage the passing of HB 1589 which would strip second amendment rights from NH’s citizens.
According to observers who attended the hearing, these outsiders were brought in by none other than the Soros-funded group Granite State Progress.
New Hampshire does not have a gun violence or gun crime problem and yet this group was willing to bring in the parents of the dead children of Connecticut’s Sandy Hook School shooting who then used their poor dead children as props.
The strong NH second amendment grassroots had already exposed the Bloomberg Mayor’s anti-gun rights group which likely was what discouraged Gabby Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly from staging an open rally against gun rights in NH earlier last year.
Once again the NHTPC does NOT support the passage of this or any law that would take away the gun rights of law abiding citizens while doing nothing to stop criminals.
Beware because other states may try to use the same tactics.
Those in opposition to the bill far outnumbered those in support of it.
There is still time to write to the Committee and suggest they “ITL” this bill.
More from NH Firearms Coalition…
The anti-gun activists have been preparing to pass a ban on private gun sales.
The gun ban crowd is pushing HB 1589, a bill that will put you in prison for up to 7 years for selling a gun to a friend or neighbor. That’s right, under the provision of HB 1589 you can’t even dispose of your private personal property without going to a licensed firearms dealer.
This bill will criminalize commonplace activities you probably don’t even think about. Ever loan your rifle to a friend on a hunting trip? Ever let a friend try out one of your guns at the shooting range? If HB 1589 is passed, these are the kinds of things that could land you in jail!
HB 1589 is so broad that any transfer that is not completed by a licensed dealer subjects the transferer to the penalties of a Class B felony!
If you think that’s bad, this new bill — House Bill 1589-FN — would set the stage for putting the names of New Hampshire gun owners into a national gun registry. It would do this by requiring that virtually any gun transaction in New Hampshire — private or commercial — be subject to a Brady Check.
Thus, if you lived in Stark or Fitzwilliam and wanted to sell your gun to your lifetime next door neighbor, you and he would have to take a day off and drive to a federal firearms licensee.
Once you got there, you might very well face the dirty little secret of the Brady Law: The system is frequently down for long periods of time — sometimes an entire weekend. And 8% of all inquiries result in “false positives” — normally because your name is similar to someone else’s.
Now, under the language of the Brady Law, it is legally permissible for you and your neighbor to take a day off three days later and drive back to the firearms dealer, accompanied by your neighbor. The problem is this: Most false positives never go “green.” Most dealers won’t sell a firearm unless the FBI transmits a “green.” And most people who try to get the FBI to correct its records are given the brush-off.
But that’s not all: Recently, BATF has gone into gun dealers in connection with its annual inspection and demanded to be allowed to copy all information from the dealer’s bound book and 4473’s — thus compiling a defacto gun registry.
So the drafters of House Bill 1589-FN claim that they prohibit a state or local firearms registry? Surprise! BATF is not a “state or local agency.” And it doesn’t consider its list of all gun owners to be a “registry.”
Consider how this bill would have failed to prevent Newtown (stolen gun), Aurora (passed background check), Tucson (passed background check), and practically every other modern American tragedy. This bill wouldn’t make anyone safer, it’s just another cynical attempt by Bloomberg-backed gun-grabbers to marginalize gun-owners, stigmatize gun ownership, and pave the way for the elimination of your gun rights.
There has already been one hearing on this bill. There is still time to write to the Committee and suggest they “ITL” this bill. Check the bill’s status here.
HB 1589 is sponsored by some of the most anti-Second Amendment, anti-freedom idealogues in New Hampshire. Including the committee Vice Chairman, Rep. Donna Schlachman (603) 772-4934. The other sponsors are:
Rep. Elaine Andrews-Ahearn (603) 772-7069
Rep. David Borden (603) 436-4132
Rep. Rebecca EMERSON-Brown (603) 436-9392
Rep. Laurie Harding (603) 448-5206
Rep. Katherine Rogers (603) 496-8521
Rep. Kenneth Ward (603) 988-7580
Sen. David Pierce (603) 271-8631
You should also contact House Speaker Rep. Terie Norelli (603) 436-2108 and House Minority Leader
Rep. Gene Chandler (603) 374-6603 and let them know that you expect HB 1589 to be voted “inexpedient to legislate”.
Please contact the committee members, bill sponsors and House leadership to let them know that you strongly oppose ANY attempt to prohibit the private sale of firearms in New Hampshire. You need to be polite but firm when you explain to these legislators that HB 1589 might make them “feel like they are doing something” but in reality nothing needs to be done. There is no proof, anywhere that there has been any problems with allowing law abiding, peaceable, state residents to sell or trade firearms (that they lawfully own) to one another.
Private parties cannot order firearms through the mail or UPS, only licensed dealers can do that. HB 1589 only addresses face to face private sales.
Please also let these legislators know (because they are most likely ignorant about firearms) that dealers are licensed, but private parties are currently free and should remain free to dispose of their property as they see fit.