NH Gun Confiscations on Deck - Granite Grok

NH Gun Confiscations on Deck

If they can’t take your guns outright, they’ll chip away at your gun rights, one year at a time, one bill at a time.

And when they finish, the possibility of the Police coming unannounced at 5am to confiscate your guns will be very high and very real.  Folks, it’s already happening elsewhere in these United States.

New Hampshire’s Leftist Democrats are throwing a heaping pile of anti-2A bills at us this year – and they control the House, Senate and Executive Council.  So, odds are pretty good they will pass them all, sending them on to Governor Sununu for signature.

Public hearings for three of these bills have already happened, but we have HB687, the so-called “Red Flag” bill, on deck for March 5th.

Sponsored by all Democrats, this bill gives the police the authority to come into your home and take your guns away, simply based on someone’s opinion that you MAY harm yourself or someone else.  No due process, just a court order based on someone’s opinion.

After all, the government knows what’s best for you.

Oh, and just try getting your guns back and having your record expunged if the accusation is recinded.  There are NO mechanisms in this 15-page bill for silly distractions like your personal reputation or property – you’re on your own to recover those.

HB687 (Red Flag)
HB564 (Ban Guns in School Zones)
HB109 (Banning Commercial Sales)
HB514 (7-day Waiting Period)

The kicker to HB687 is that we already have laws in place to protect people, and a co-sponsor of this bill (Dr. Jerry Knirk, representing Freedom NH, of all places) already admitted so in this article.  (30 Clancy Road, Freedom, NH 617.448.7557)

“There are already ways for the court to restrict a person’s access to firearms under statutes dealing with domestic violence and stalking, but they require that the person has already committed a crime. Under the involuntary commitment statute, a person also loses his or her access to guns but that is a process of confining the person in a mental health-care facility, and there is a very high bar for such an action to take place.”

Utterly delusional.  Imagine having a “high bar” such that you must actually commit a crime before police can strip your rights away!  But that’s too much for Leftists – the prediction or expectation of a future crime is plenty enough for them to convict you.

Knirk also “predicts” that his bill will help “prevent suicides” (a convenient anti-2A argument), reporting that 50% of NH gun-related deaths are suicides.  What the Doctor fails to mention is that the national average is actually 66%, identifying once again that NH is much better off than the rest of the country, begging the question again, “why is this bill even necessary?”

I’ll tell you why – because Leftist Democrats know that if they go for an immediate all-out ban of your guns, we would actually rise up off our couches and keyboards and fight back.  Instead, they incrementally push emotional, feel-good bills like this to chip away; and they will succeed this time, unless we refuse to stand down.

Each year, a small group of NH citizens works tirelessly, fighting the never-ending train of anti-gun bill abuses.  But this year, Leftists hold most of the cards and will likely send most of these bills to Governor Sununu for signature.

And while Sununu is generally considered a pro-2A Governor, he plans to run for US Senate.  To win that election, he must occasionally pander to the middle, keeping independents happy – because a US Senate race is a big-money beauty pageant.  Which of our rights will he compromise to do that?  Are you willing to roll the dice?

But this small group of people can’t do it themselves this time – they need our help.  If you haven’t actively taken steps to fight for your gun rights before, you owe it to these people to get involved in some way this year.

Here are some of the things you can do to help:

  • Go to the Red-Flag bill’s Public Hearing March 5, 2019 10am at the NH Legislative Office Building (LOB) Room #204.
  • Call/send an email to the Criminal Justice and Public Safety committee, telling them that HB-687 is wrong, unnecessary and unconstitutional and to “ITL” (kill) it.  (see list of email addresses below)
  • Call your State Reps and Senator and demand they vote against (ITL) these bills when they reach a floor vote (find your State Reps and Senator here)
  • Send a note and a red pen to Governor Sununu, telling him to reject (veto) these Bills.  You can share your opinion with the Governor (here) or send him a note and red pen to his office.  It takes no time to do either.
    Office of the Governor
    State House – 107 North Main Street
    Concord, NH 03301
    (603) 271-2121

The Leftists are working hard to pass “Red Flag” bills like HB687 in other states, like Maine, Tennessee and Virginia.  And recently, the usual suspects, Massachusetts, California, Connecticut, Oregon, Washington and New York passed this type of bill with ease.

They want nothing more than to have the trophy of turning New Hampshire into a gun-free zone, just like these other places.

Are we going to sit back and let them?

Criminal Justice and Public Safety committee emails:

Democrats:

renny.cushing@leg.state.nh.us

Beth.Rodd@leg.state.nh.us

linda.harriottgathright@leg.state.nh.us

lcpantelakos@comcast.net

Andrew.OHearne@leg.state.nh.us

linn.opderbecke@leg.state.nh.us

John.Bordenet@leg.state.nh.us

David.Meuse@leg.state.nh.us

Nancy.Murphy@leg.state.nh.us

Ray.Newman@leg.state.nh.us

Julie.Radhakrishnan@leg.state.nh.us

Sandy.Swinburne@leg.state.nh.us

Republicans:

welch4016@outlook.com

dennis.fields@leg.state.nh.us

john.burt@leg.state.nh.us

Dennis.Green@leg.state.nh.us

mcnally_jody_usmc@yahoo.com

dave@sanbornhall.net

Scott.Wallace@leg.state.nh.us

Daryl.Abbas@leg.state.nh.us

 

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