HB1589, which would have added background checks to our background checks, failed in the NH House today.
This is all due to the hard work of Grassroots activists, and we’d like to extend our thanks to them and the legislators who voted to kill this.
And I’d like to give a special thanks to Minnesota based Progress Now’s, Zandra Rice Hawkins. Her painfully long-winded email, weighted down with tired left wing talking points, sent to everyone in the NH House, probably helped win the day for Second Amendment Supporters.
Thank You Zandra.
Examiner.com has more details…
An amendment was brought forth by Representative Laura Jones which would require a study commission be set up to further study the bill. This amendment passed with 177-175 votes.
HB 1589 was officially amended to a study commission which was then voted on by the House in an overwhelming win of 242-118, essentially killing the bill. There was a further motion to be sure the bill was sufficiently dead and buried that then passed by 244-113. This was a defining victory for the gun rights activists in New Hampshire who have been working non-stop against the out-of-state gun control advocates who wrote this bill and were pushing for its passage.
I guess we’re back to the question I asked last year. If this is that important to Demcorats, even though a Democrat majority house just killed it, will they be running for re-election on enhanced background checks this year? The defeat of HB 1589 is your opportunity.
Or will they not, and then bring this back again next year, after the election?
Let’s start asking them, all the way to November.
