This week, the House of Representatives have scheduled possible votes on two anti-gun bills. It is important that you email and call your state Representative and urge them to OPPOSE House Bill 201 and House Bill 350. Please click the “Take Action” button below to contact your state Representative!
HB 201, sponsored by state Representative Katherine Rogers (D-Merrimack), would expand background checks for all firearm sales and transfers. If enacted, HB 201 would require individuals to appear before a licensed firearm dealer to request a criminal background check prior to transferring a firearm, absent limited and vague exceptions. The firearm dealer would also be required to create a record of each sale. This flawed legislation is being pushed by an out-of-state anti-gun group who is trying to impose their misguided policies on the law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen of New Hampshire.
In HB 201, a “commercial sale” is defined as a sale, transfer, or exchange of a firearm that takes place at, or on the curtilage of, a gun show or pursuant to an offer to sell, buy, transfer, or exchange a firearm that took place at a gun show, or pursuant to an advertisement, posting, listing, or display.” This vague definition could encompass all private sales and transfers of firearms.
As drafted, HB 350 seeks to remove one constitutional right while exercising another by prohibiting individuals from carrying a firearm for self-defense while voting. If enacted, it would become a Class B felony to carry a gun while voting, punishable by up to 7 years in prison. This is an outrageous attack on the right to self-defense of New Hampshire citizens and gun owners. Currently, individuals can lawfully carry a firearm into a polling place where it is not prohibited by law to do so.
Once again, please click the “Take Action” button above to urge your state Representative to oppose HB 201 and HB 350.