Skip already gave a run-down on HB 499 and how it could suggest that gun buyers report all sales to the Department of Health and (in)Human Services and pay a fee on every sale.
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Ken Gidge
NH Democrat Ken Gidge wants gun owners to pay for the mental health system? HB499
[Art.] 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.
Yet another bill on the Gun Control system. Gidge must think that he’s got a winner here – if the mentally ill are the ones using guns to carry out these mass killings, then let the gun owners here in NH pay for mental illness care when they buy their hated, dastardly toys, right? Yet, he doesn’t even have the political courage to put his intent into the title of his bill ( like “An Act to force those bitter gun schmucks to pay for new hospital beds“). His goal – PUNISH a class of people within NH that happen to love and love to exercise their Second Amendment Rights by making it more expensive for gun owners (and NEW gun owners) to do their hobby or profession.
Next hearing is tomorrow at 3:15pm at the Legislative Office Building (LOB) Rm 205.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Thirteen
AN ACT establishing a commission to study funding mechanisms for increasing the number of mental health beds statewide.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Chapter; Commission to Study Funding Mechanisms for Increasing the Number of Mental Health Beds Statewide. Amend RSA by inserting after chapter 126-V the following new chapter: