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Posted: 3/10/2020 4:45:14 PM EDT

Got this email today from New Hampshire Firearms Coalition: Y'all know what to do!

There is no end to the anti-gun onslaught in Concord this legislative season.
Senate:

In the Senate, HB1660, 'ELDERCARE GUN CONFISCATION', was passed by the committee and is being voted on by the full Senate on Wednesday. Call your Senator and the Governor 603-271-2121 and demand that this bill be killed. This is urgent; we are hearing that the Anti-Gun politicians want to send this bill to the Governor's Desk as soon as next week.

Ammoland did a great write up on why these RED FLAG, ERPO bills are bad bills. [click here for more details].

House:
This is an extra-busy week on the House floor by the full House of Representatives. These are the firearms related bills coming before the full House for a vote this week: Please contact your own State Reps and ask them to oppose passage of these bills. Your State Rep can be found here: http://gencourt.state.nh.us/house/members/default.aspx

HB1349 "Establishing a committee to study firearms incidents involving children with access to unsecured firearms." Primarily a Democrat bill with 1 Republican supporting it. As the state ranked 3rd in terms of safety, and with one of the highest firearm ownership in the country, do we need to enact legislation to require that firearms are locked, separated from ammo, and secured at all times? Further, "The committee shall study the scope, causes of, and factors involved in firearms incidents involving children." NH has no gun violence issue, is extremely safe, and there is no need to form a committee to study a problem that does not exist. NHFC OPPOSES HB1349

HB1257 "establishing a committee to study the opportunities for citizen involvement in attorney general investigations of officer involved shootings." [NHFC is watching this bill]

HB 1350 'The 2020 Gun Lock Tax' "Requiring a locking safety device be provided for commercial firearm sales and transfers." Without the least bit of statistical evidence to support their assertion, the bill reports that it is in everyone's best interest to keep guns locked up to prevent accidents, injury or suicide. In this case, the legislature is mandating that all dealers, any gun show re-sellers of firearms and any citizen transfers must provide a locking device with the firearm, but there is an exemption for the buyer if they have a safe. Huh? The truth is that what our representatives are doing is attempting to force gun owners to keep their firearms under lock and key so that they won't be accessiblethat won't work very well in an emergency situation and is not needed in NH. Remember, when seconds countpolice are only minutes away. If the left gets their way, access to your firearm in an emergency will take even longer. The other major negative is this will drive up prices of firearms. NHFC OPPOSES HB1350

HB 1374 'Surrender and Destroy Firearms Act' The bill repeals the statute governing the voluntary surrender of firearms. Basically our legislature wants to make it so that voluntarily surrendered firearms can be destroyed instead of being sold or re-purposed by the state. This makes NO sense! HB1374 is clearly intended to destroy firearms, and that is just another indicator of just how far left our legislature has become. NHFC stands with leaving the existing law as currently written. NHFC OPPOSES HB1374

HB 1608 'The 2020 Magazine Ban' "Prohibiting the manufacture, sale, transfer, and possession of large capacity ammunition feeding devices." This is strictly a Democrat sponsored bill. We knew this was coming, and here it is. Your representatives want to make it illegal to purchase or sell a rifle that holds more than 10 rounds, or a handgun that holds more than 15 rounds. Violations would be a class A misdemeanor. Since when does NH have a problem with these firearms? There is no constitutional basis for this law, nor any supporting statistical evidence that his bill is necessaryNHFC vigorously opposes this bill because statistics don't lie. According to Statista, rifles were responsible for less deaths than from blunt objects, personal weapons (fists), other weapons not defined, and knives. Large capacity magazines don't hurt anyone; people pull triggers, and facts don't lie. NHFC OPPOSES HB1608

HB 1285 'Criminal Empowerment Zones' or "relative to possession of firearms on school property" bill. This is another Democrat only sponsored billno Republicans sponsored it. Besides making our kids unprotected targets, this bill will make law abiding citizens instant criminals should they stop to watch a ball game, pick up their kids or drive through a campus. "Founded by gun rights advocate John Lott, the Crime Prevention Research Center tracks mass shootings and whether they occur in "gun-free" zones. Between January 1998 and December 2015, the gun-advocacy group says 96.2% of mass public shootings occurred in gun-free zones." (Azcentral.com) Gun free zones don't work, and actually will make targets of our kids. NHFC OPPOSES HB1285

HB 1143 "Repealing limited liability for manufacturers, distributors, dealers, or importers of firearms or ammunition." 100% partisan bill with only Democrat support. This bill allows for the radical left to shut down gun and ammo manufacturers and dealers by suing them to death. Currently there are provisions that limit this from happening which makes sensedo we sue Chevrolet when a drunk driver kills an innocent bystander? NOPE, but the left wants to get rid of guns, and by allowing lawsuits it opens the door to do so through this insidious bill. People pull triggers, and people need to take responsibility for their own actions, or be held responsible by law. NHFC VIGOROUSLY OPPOSES HB1143

HB 1115 "Relative to the discharge of a firearm in the compact part of a city or town." Another 100% partisan bill with no Republican support. Raises the legal distance from structures for the discharge of a firearm from 300' to 900'. Also allows towns to create their own rules and designations. Another way the left is making it harder for law abiding citizens to use firearmsincrementalism at its worst. The committee recommended that this bill be killed. NHFC OPPOSES HB1115 and agrees with the committee that the bill should be killed.

HB 1159 "Political Incumbent Protection Act", "Relative to cyberbullying, cyberstalking, and doxxing of a public servant." Another 100% partisan Democrat bill with no Republican support. While not directly affecting firearms owners, this bill is very concerning for the following reasons. If you criticize a public official, you can be charged with a misdemeanor. If they make up a false allegation of being afraid of you after you criticize them, you can be charged with a misdemeanor. If you reveal their address, phone # or location, you can be charged with a misdemeanor. This sounds like a dystopian future on steroids, and buffers government employees needlessly from rightful review and public input, all by abridging citizens constitutionally protected right to free speech. NHFC vigorously opposes this bill. This bill is intended to shut down outside groups from publishing the records and contact information for those in office. NHFC OPPOSES HB1159

By now you should be seeing a dangerous trend happening at our state house. The radical left has hijacked the legislature and is ramming unnecessary, unconstitutional bills down the throats of NH citizens. Each of these bills are intended to attack, and abridge the rights of gun owners, and to further restrict how and where gun owners will be allowed to exercise their rights.

It is time to say NO MORE to these out of control Gun Grabbers, and take back our state.

For Liberty,
Kirk Beswick
President - NHFC, Inc.

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