A promise kept – and Joseph Plaia and Zandra Rice-Hawkins go on lying about SB12 – Part 4. Can't forget about Ray Buckley!! - Granite Grok

A promise kept – and Joseph Plaia and Zandra Rice-Hawkins go on lying about SB12 – Part 4. Can’t forget about Ray Buckley!!

Buckles-the-Clown-e1326893415451So we had Joseph Plaia and Zandra Rice-Hawkins lie about SB12 – the law that Governor Sununu that finally gave NH residents the full measure of our Constitutional Right to keep and bear arms without having to ask Nanny Government “may I?”. Plaia is a shill for Gabby Gifford’s civilian disarmament group and Rice-Hawkins seemingly hates any idea or move to devolve even a smidgeon of power or decision making back to us plebes.

And of course, Ray Buckley the NH Dem Party Chair (who backed uber-Progressive, pro-Islamic, and anti-Semite Keith Ellison for DNC chair – and lost that bet) is in the same boat as these other two anti-Liberty yahoos.  What a trio of liars!  So what was Buckles The Clown’s take on this (reformatted, emphasis mine)?

The New Hampshire Democratic Party, however, chastised the governor for signing gun legislation – instead of other issues – as his first bill signing.

“The governor claims concealed carry is about ‘safety,’ but he is making it harder for law enforcement officials to keep track of guns that fall into the wrong hands,” claimed Ray Buckley, the head of the NHDP. “The vast majority of Granite Staters support common sense reforms like background checks and it is those reforms that will make us safer, not more accessibility.”

Buckley added, “New Hampshire has imminent issues that need the governor’s attention, but further relaxing the state’s notoriously lax gun laws is not one of them. There are Granite Staters who need a raise, who need better health insurance options, and who need assistance with drug abuse. They can’t afford to wait for Gov. Sununu to check off his pet projects before he gets to tackling serious problems.”

Let’s unpack this, little lie to Biggest Lie:

  • “Pet Issue” – Maybe to you, Buckley, it is a “pet issue.  To us on the Right, it was a PROMISE.  He made it voluntarily, he made it on the campaign trail – and he called on us to hold him accountable.  To you, Ray, this is a nothing burger – to us, it is the epitome of Live Free or Die motto of the Live Free or Die State.  If I have to continuously ask permission, how am I free to exercise a Right outlined in Article 2-A?  Isn’t Liberty the highest value?  No, of course not in your eyes.
  • “Background Checks” – Have’em. Have had them for a long time.  Every gun that I have bought in a gun store, I’ve had to fill out the Federal Form 4473 and then go through the NICS check. But the anti-gunners want even more control of my private property after I have purchased it in taking away my Right to do with my property as I wish by abolishing me selling it to my friend, or even worse, not allowing my friend to try it at a range (depending on how the law is written) or even teach my grandkids how to shoot (that would be an “illegal transfer” for me to allow them to hold my gun). Buckles want you to believe that we DON’T have background checks even though we do.
  • “But he is making it harder for law enforcement officials to keep track of guns that fall into the wrong hands” – No such thing – Ray Buckley is making this whole line of argument against SB12 by pulling it out of his butt.  Neither the NICS system nor the Form 4473 are supposed to, by law, used after the sale to track guns and their new owners. And neither is the issuing of the NH Pistol / Revolver license (“CCW” or “Conceal Carry”).

There have been “rumors” for years that if you are stopped by a cop and you offer to show that license, the cop has waved it off saying they already know – even if you are not in your home town where it is permitted to keep it on file. Is this what Buckley alluding to?  If so, that means he’s not only lying about SB12, he’s in favor of police acting illegally.

Here’s the controlling RSA (emphasis mine, reformatted):

159:6 License to Carry. –
I. (b) The license shall be in duplicate and shall bear the name, address, description, and signature of the licensee. The original shall be delivered to the licensee and the duplicate shall be preserved by the people issuing the same for 4 years.

159:6-a Confidentiality of Licenses. – Notwithstanding the provisions of RSA 91-A:4 or any other provision of law to the contrary, all papers and records, including applications, pertaining to the issuance of licenses pursuant to RSA 159:6 and all licenses issued pursuant to said section are subject to inspection only by law enforcement officials of the state or any political subdivision thereof or of the federal government while in the performance of official duties or upon written consent, for good cause shown, of the superior court in the county where said license was issued.

That doesn’t mean electronic transmission out to a police car in one town if you are stopped somewhere else.  So, once again, Ray is lying to you because PROGRESSIVE IDEOLOGY.

(H/T: Patch, Concord Monitor)

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