I Took a Gander at the New Set of LSRs (Legislative Service Requests) for Gun Bills

The NH House just had its “LSR Season” with an additional one held shortly after the November 8th election for new NH House members.  I scanned through the list for a number of reasons but the primary push was to see, in light of the US Supreme Court NYSRPS vs Bruen decision where the originalists on SCOTUS had the majority decision. Simply put, any law that isn’t historically congruent with those norms back when the Second Amendment was written and adopted are illegal.  Because of that decision, lots of States, cities, counties, and town are having to revise their laws and ordinances to better comport with the restored historical Right to keep and bear arms that is protected in the US Bill of Right’s Second Amendment and many States’ Constitutions as well (eg., NH’s Article 2-A: “[The Bearing of Arms.] All persons have the right to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves, their families, their property and the state”.).

Now, LSRs are simply placeholders for bills that generally be fleshed out later on (that process has started). It is clear, however, that the Democrats in the NH House are looking to set up bills that would continue to infringe in ways that SCOTUS has already ruled to be impermissive and unconstitutional.  All of the following are Democrats with the exception of DeSimone.

1. 2023-0013 Sponsors: HB (Prime) Smith, Marjorie – Straf. 10 requiring a background check prior to any commercial firearm sale
2. 2023-0018 Sponsors: HR (Prime) Ames, Richard – Ches. 13 a resolution urging Congress to enact legislation regulating and banning certain semi-automatic assault weapons and large capacity ammunition feeding devices
3. 2023-0030 Sponsors: HB (Prime) Meuse, David – Rock. 37 relative to the sale of firearms to persons under 21 years of age and relative to firearm safety devices
4. 2023-0042 Sponsors: HB (Prime) Bradley, Amy – Hills. 41 relative to extreme risk protection orders
5. 2023-0047 Sponsors: HB (Prime) Grassie, Chuck – Straf. 8 an act imposing a waiting period between the purchase and delivery of a firearm
6. 2023-0069 Sponsors: HB (Prime) Shurtleff, Steve – Merr. 15 relative to possession or discharge of a firearm in a school zone.
7. 2023-0163 Sponsors: HB (Prime) DeSimone, Debra – Rock. 18 relative to extreme risk protection orders

Now there are some others that are Republican sponsored but in reaching out to them (which is still in process – the Election kinda put that off to the side for a bit) and I’ll do that batch a bit later.

But a set of quick set of “quick thoughts on them:

1. All commercial sales ALREADY have to go through NICS. I’m betting that once the bill is written, it will be for ALL firearm transfers – friends to friends, neighbors to neighbors, family member to family member.  The Democrats want to choke this out of existence and if taken to court, it will be thrown out, IMHO.
2. Yeah, this isn’t happening.  Semi-automatic weapons are well over 150 years old and the Democrats’ use of redefining our common language is trying to redefine what is “standard” (like 30 round AR-15 magazines to be “large”).
3. Leave it to Meuse to be the dufus in trying to have “adult” redefined depending on political purpose. If it comes to Obamacare, you’re a child until 26 years old. To have a beer, it’s 21. To vote and die for your country, it’s 18. And the Democrats now want us to believe that a child of 18 is “adult enough” to be able to vote (but still need Mommy’s permission to be given an aspirin in school).  Note to Meuse – if 18 is old enough to be an adult to vote, it’s old enough to exercise the Right to OWN.
4. Another Red Flag law – A Prediction: betcha that its construction will be such that any allegation will have someone lose their Right to OWN – with no “teeth” for those cases where it is either an ideological case (NO ONE SHOULD HAVE A GUN!!!) or some disgruntled person seeking revenge.
5. Why should an otherwise law abiding person who passes the NICS or StateLine check be denied their Constitutional Right?
6. And here comes Deputy Dawg doing the “Fine for me and not for thee” schtick. Being former law enforcement, he gets to go, armed, onto school property.  He wants to deny we that have passed the background check to be given our NH Pistol/Revolver License to conceal carry onto school property as the Federal Gun-Free Zone legislation allows.
7. I have no idea but we soon will.