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Urgent Call-to-Action: Oppose HB1050!

by Secretary, NHFC on February 20, 2024

HB1050-FN, which claims to wish to establish a voluntary waiver of the right to purchase firearms, is up for a floor vote this Thursday and needs your immediate attention.
 
This bill poses a significant threat to our rights and freedoms, introducing measures that could potentially impact gun ownership and individual liberties broadly.
 
HB1050 is a restriction on Second Amendment rights, creates precedents for further restrictive measures, and impacts individuals’ rights to self-defense without adequately addressing the underlying issues related to firearm misuse. It creates an sneaky avenue for so-called ‘red flag’ attempts and is a backdoor gun registry attempt.
 
We strongly urge all NH Firearms Coalition members to take immediate action by reaching out to your state representatives. It’s vital to express your opposition to HB1050-FN and communicate the importance of protecting our rights. 
 
You can find your state representative’s contact information [here]. 
 
Emailing or calling your representative is a direct way to make your voice heard and influence the outcome of this legislation. Please ask your legislator to vote Inexpedient to Legislate on House Bill 1050.
 
The New Hampshire Firearms Coalition emailed legislators on your behalf, you can see that text below if it’s helpful in crafting your message. We need as many members writing legislators as possible to prevent this backdoor registry attempt.

Our letter to legislators:

HB 1050-FN, a bill to create a so-called ‘voluntary waiver for people who don’t want to purchase a firearm’ recently came out of the Criminal Justic and Public Safety Committee with a split recommendation.

The New Hampshire Firearms Coalition urges you to support the minority report of Inexpedient to Legislate when the bill comes to the floor for a vote. What need is there of the state wasting taxpayer dollars to support a list for people who don’t want to purchase a firearm—when all they have to do is just not buy one?

Frankly, such a list is not only expensive, but doesn’t make any sense.  It doesn’t even include a funding mechanism.

More troubling, HB 1050-FN has a crafty clause in paragraph V, section II, which clearly indicates that a third party could place another person on this list.


II.  Any person who knowingly gives any false information or makes any false statement with the intent of enrolling or removing another person onto or from the list shall be guilty of a class B misdemeanor.”

This bill would open up the floodgates of harassment of the many by the few who wish to interfere with a person’s 2nd amendment right to keep and bear arms.

This would make the state vulnerable to extensive litigation, which would constitute another waste of taxpayer dollars.

Again, NHFC urges you to vote Inexpedient to Legislate on HB 1050-FN.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.”


Help us oppose HB1050-FN by calling your State Representative today before Thursday’s floor vote and urging them to vote Inexpedient to Legislate! Together, we can safeguard our freedoms and ensure our rights remain intact for future generations.
 
Thank you for your dedication and support.
For Liberty,


JR Hoell, Secretary
New Hampshire Firearms Coalition

Gun Day at the NH State House! 2/2/2024

by Secretary, NHFC on February 1, 2024

At the beginning of the week, I mentioned that there were several gun related bills that would be heard this week. The last five of those bills are having hearings today, Friday 2/2/2024.

This past Wednesday there was a hearing on HB 1037, a bill to remove the limited liability protections for the manufacturers, distributors, dealers and importers of firearms and ammunition. While the committee has not decided what to do with this bill, we are hearing from internal sources that the committee will recommend having this bill voted Inexpedient to Legislate (ITL). We will keep you updated on the progress of killing this bill. If we need your assistance to make sure that this bad bill dies, we will ask.

The first bill being heard today is HB 1050, a bill to create a “voluntary do-not-sell-to-me-any-firearms” list. While this bill sounds good, the gun-grabbers, in their reckless zeal, want to create a list where you can have yourself registered to not be allowed to buy a firearm from any licensed gun dealer.

This is basically a revised “red flag” law; an effort to get the “foot-in-the-door” to rob you of your right to keep and bear arms. We feel if this passed, the next step will be to have judges make this a requirement under some other court order like a divorce decree for example.

I’m sure you will agree with me that once such a list is in place, the gun grabbers will expand its application to allow anyone to place people they know on such a list. Indeed, this very thing is hinted at in the “Prohibited Conduct” section of the bill, where it speaks of prohibiting someone from using false information to get another person on the list.

Obviously, the intent is there to allow somebody to put another person on the “do-not-sell-to-me” list.
The bill is scheduled for a hearing in the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee on today February 2 at 9:30 am in the Legislative Office Building room 202-04. Please use the contact link at the bottom of the email and let the CJ&PS committee know that you oppose this bill.

Next bill is HB1711 “The 2024 Meuse Violent Patient Release Act.” We all know that the gun grabbers take advantage of any tragic loss to push their agenda, including the loss of the former Franklin Chief of Police, and hence why the New Hampshire Firearms Coalition opposes this legislation. What the legislature should be doing instead is finding out why the former police chief was disarmed while manning the metal detector as a security guard!!!

HB 1711 allows firearms to be taken from anyone who is considered mentally incompetent to stand trial or who has been committed to a mental institution and is being released. *

Please use the link below, you will need to select the hearing date 2/2/2024 and the committee, Criminal Justice and Public Safety and the Bill HB1711 to let them know of your opposition.
Lastly, there are 3 good bills that need to be passed.

HB1186 will create a new chapter of law to protect those who purchase firearms with credit cards. There were news articles about the goal of the banking industry to require retailers to use certain codes for firearm transactions. This bill would prohibit this.

“159-E:2 Firearm Code Usage Prohibited.
A person or entity involved in facilitating or processing an electronic payment transaction and licensed to do business in this state, including a payment card issuer or payment card network, may not assign to a merchant or require a merchant to use a firearms code….”

HB1336 would make sure that automobiles are treated the same as one’s home relative to what employers can ask. They would need to get a search warrant if they wanted to know what was in your car when parked on their property.

HB1337 would make sure firearms that were taken are returned if there is no extension of the protective order or if the protective order was denied by the court. This is a commonsense change to our laws. People should not have their property stolen by the government on a false accusation.

Here is the sign in link. Please take the time TODAY to sign in for and against the bills listed in this picture. All these bills are in the CJ&PS committee and have a hearing today.

Thank you for your help preserving our fundamental rights.

*The Firearms Coalition knows that most of those that are seeking help for mental health issues are not violent, but this bill permanently disarms all of those individuals in an effort to take the firearms away from the few that might be dangerous and who will be released.
For Liberty,


JR Hoell, Secretary
New Hampshire Firearms Coalition

Help Make Sure Fish and Game Is Fair

January 29, 2024

In case you did not open the other email, I sent out another alert just an hour ago on a different bill.  Please read both alerts. Below is an alert that several of our members helped put together on a bill before Fish and Game.  If you would like to help NHFC out on alerts, please use our […]

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Anti-Gun Meuse Is at It Again. This Time, He Wants To Put Violent Patients on the Streets…

January 29, 2024

There are a number of both pro-gun bills and anti-gun bills with hearings this week.  These hearings start as soon as tomorrow and end with a number of bills having a hearing on Friday, see image at the end of this alert.  As these alerts are sent out, please take the time to read each one.  […]

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Altschiller Anti-Gun Red Flag Bill Is Backkkkk!!! Here Is What You Can Do To Stop It.

January 22, 2024

There is a lot going on today, especially for those of us in the ‘First In The Nation’ primary.  This year with so much going on in the NH State House, we have needed to focus our efforts on bills and have not completed a score card for the presidential primary.  Unfortunately, when looking at […]

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Follow Up on Anti-Gun Bills From 1/9/2024 and a Way To Get Your Firearms Back

January 15, 2024

Last week, I alerted you about two anti-gun bills that the Senate was going to hold a hearing on (SB 577 and SB 571-FN).  The Senate Judiciary committee has not made a recommendation on those two bills, so there is still time to ask them to recommend that these two bills be killed.  Here is […]

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Legislative Season Is Starting and There Are a Number of Anti-Gun Bills

January 8, 2024

This is the beginning of a new Legislative season and there are a number of anti-gun bills that we are tracking. We will alert you as best possible.  Sometimes we only get notice on a Friday for a hearing that is the following Monday or Tuesday.  This is the case this week. There are 4 […]

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Senate Is Attempting To Kill a Good Bill Regarding Simple Possession of Self Defense Tools

May 2, 2023

Call or e-mail your Senator- TODAY – and urge them to vote to enact House Bill 31. HB31 repeals RSA 159:16, which criminalizes possessing or carrying a blackjack, slung shot, or metallic knuckles.  The Senate will vote on this bill on Thursday 5/4 and they currently plan to kill this legislation.  Your efforts could help pass this […]

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Legislature To Vote on Mandatory Waiting Periods

March 15, 2023

The New Hampshire Firearms Coalition is currently tracking HB 76, a bill to impose a 3-day waiting period between the purchase and delivery of a firearm from any licensed manufacturer or dealer to a law abiding citizen like yourself.  Currently, the Granite State has no waiting period when you purchase a firearm. Indeed, such waiting periods treat you […]

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Tell Your Representative to Stop Warrantless Searches by Fish & Game Officers

March 4, 2023

We need you to email and call your State Reps to help us restore our rights.  Draft email at the bottom of this letter and an email address to send it to.  Feel free to edit the email or the subject line.  If they respond back, please share their response.  We like to recognize those who support our natural and constitutional rights.

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