On May 12th, the NH House and Senate concurred on the final language in HB1178. An Act “prohibiting the state from enforcing any federal statute, regulation, or Presidential Executive Order that restricts or regulates the right of the people to keep and bear arms.”
“This bill prohibits the state of New Hampshire, a political subdivision of this state, or any person acting under the color of state, county, or municipal law from using any personnel or financial resources to enforce, administer, or cooperate with any law, act, rule, order, or regulation of the United States Government or Executive Order of the President of the United States that is inconsistent with any law of this state regarding the regulation of firearms, ammunition, magazines or the ammunition feeding devices, firearm components, firearms supplies, or knives.”
You are prohibited from enforcing it if it is not in New Hampshire statute.
The Bill passed three weeks ago and has 9presumably) not been delivered to the governor. If it had, it would have become law without his signature (I believe it is) five days later. That has not happened. Where, for the love of my Natural right to self-defense, is HB1178?
The Bill effectively nullifies federal overreach without preventing cooperation on interstate gun crimes. Signing it would make all the noise from the caterwauling gun-grabbing progressive loons irrelevant.
Sound and fury signify nothing.
Governor Groomer did say (this week) that after the Texas shooting, New Hampshire had no intention of tightening up existing laws on firearms. THat’s something. But where is HB1178, and when can we expect him to sign it?
Is he afraid to, given the recent rash of shootings? Or is he waiting for Biden or Democrats to say or do something material that would give it more weight?
His base is unhappy with his performance of late, and a bit of showmanship standing up for GraniteStater’s natural right to keep and bear arms might give him a lift.
A bill that won’t help us where changes in Federal background checks are concerned. But it will prevent the Feds from being able to enforce new unconstitutional laws or to take away firearms already in the hands of law-abiding citizens for as long as we can keep a Republican majority in the Legislature.
Local Dems will flay those protections on day one if they ever get the majority again, so vigilance at the ballot box continues to be the order of the day, especially if Sununu vetoes this Bill.
I’ve stood firm on the notion he would not veto it – that he would sign it or allow it to become law, but it’s been three weeks. Where in the Granite State is HB1178?
