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HEARING ON AMMENDMENT TO HB 1635
Hearing on Ammendment to HB 1635 (a bill prohibiting the “open” carrying of a firearm in a public building-this bill would really ban ALL carrying of firearms, even with a license in most areas) TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2010 at 1:00 pm LOB 204 before the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee.
Check other bill hearing dates on the House Calendar (changes frequently).
Posted 02/01/2010
Update on HB1654
January 27, 2010. Some good news today, thanks for all your hard work, but the fight is not over. The NH House Legislative Administration Committee voted on HB1654 , relative to state house security. This was the bill that would make it a felony to carry a firearm in the State House or State House office buildings. A few parts of the audio are a little hard to hear but, the vote was 15-0 to ITL (inexpedient to legislate). The house rules committee still has a ban against firearms in effect the penalty is just that you can be asked to leave rather than a potential felony arrest.
Video of the committee vote
Posted 02/01/2010
ALERT GUN OWNERS
1/26/2010, Tuesday, 3 PM at the Legislator Office Building in room 306, my
committee (Legislative Administration) will be holding an executive session
where we will be voting on 6 bills. The most important bill will be the 5th bill
which is HB1654-FN which is related to state house security.
MINUTEMAN ALERT HB 1665 A CALL TO ARMS!
On THURSDAY January 28, 2010 at 1:30 pm in Room 204 of Legislative Office Building (33 N. State Street, Concord, NH 03301), The New Hampshire general Court
Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee will be hearing bill HB 1665 (see also HB 1665 Status)
The additional penalties found in this bill are unnecessary because criminal use of these self defense tools are covered by many other laws. If the bill becomes law and you are charged with use of any of the listed self defense tools these additional penalties may apply.
Remember we do not have adequate Castle Doctrine in this state.
See http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20091112-NEWS-911129979.
Remove the penalties or ITL the bill!
Repeal Both RSA 159:16 and RSA 159:19-a.
We have enough laws to cover the criminal misuse of any of these items.
Tell them you are in favor of decriminalizing the self defense tools found in RSA 159:16, and find unnecessary the penalties in RSA 159:19-a
If you cannot attend, Please call and/or email the committee members and sponsors of the bill HB 1665
The additional penalties in this bill that will become law if passed are unnecessary.
The term “USE” has a different meaning in court of law than common English. Criminal use of these items is covered by many other laws.
Remember we do not have adequate Castle Doctrine in this state.
http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20091112-NEWS-911129979)
If you are charged with use of any of these items, these additional penalties (think self defense) will apply; those who can least afford a good defense lawyer will suffer the consequences.
Easy solution both RSA 159:16 and RSA 159:19-a should be repealed, as we have enough laws to cover the criminal misuse of any of these items.
If you cannot attend, Please call and/or email the committee members and sponsors of the bill HB 1665
Posted 01/25/2010
Make Your Voice Heard
WE NEED YOU TO MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD!! WE NEED YOU IN CONCORD
ON JANUARY 20, 2010 at 10:00 am TO PROTECT TRAPPING IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
Legislative Office Bldg Room 305-307 HB 1514 a bill prohibiting the sale of raw skins or unskinned carcasses of fur bearing animals. If this passes, it will ban trapping and coyote control hunting in the State of New Hampshire!
Call your representatives! TELL THEM TO OPPOSE HB 1514. Find your representative here, or call 603-271-2180. The bill will be heard by Fish, Game, & Marine Committee. Call the Members of the Fish and Game and Marine Resources Committee or call 271-3125 and tell them you OPPOSE HB 1514!
GO-NH, Inc. will have a shuttle service to the State House for the hearing to ban trapping with service beginning at 9:00 am on January 20, 2010 and ending around 12:00 PM at the Everett Ice Arena , 15 Loudon Road, Concord, NH 03301 directly across from the Concord Post Office on Loudon Road in Concord. See GO-NH for updates.
You can see with the number of bills we have to follow (see just a few below) that Minute Man Alerts and Shuttle Service is getting quite expensive$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. We need your financial support to continue this service. GO-NH, Inc. is 100% volunteer, so your donations will be used for mailing Minute Man Alerts, parking, shuttle service, and postage to keep you informed and educated on issues affecting your firearm related rights. Your contributions, whatever you can afford, are urgently needed. Please send check or money order to GO-NH, Inc. at the address above, or give when you attend the hearing. Donations in any amount are needed and will gladly be accepted.
HB 1161 SUPPORT *
January 19, 2010 10:00 am LOB 204 HB 1161 repeal requirement to obtain a license to sell a pistol/revolver at retail.
* if bill mechanics corrected
HB 1447 WATCHING
January 19, 2010 10:30 am LOB 204 HB 1447 Relative to the use of firearms in the compact part of a town
HB 1317 OPPOSE
January 19, 2010 11:00 am LOB 307 HB 1317 establishing an exotic game license for hunting in exotic game preserve
HB 1433 WATCHING
January 19, 2010 11:00 am LOB 204 HB 1433 relative to commerce in firearms incl. manufacture & sale in NH
HB 1285 WATCHING
January 20, 2010 9:30 am LOB 204 HB 1285 exemption of firearms and ammo made in NH exempt from federal law
HB 1344-RSA 4:46 NEEDS TO BE REPEALED
January 21, 2010 10:00 am LOB 208 HB 1344 relative of taking private property during state of emergency
HB 1136 OPPOSE
January 26, 2010 11:15 am LOB 205 HB 1136 requiring a report to a facility for state mental health (and where else?)
HB 1318 SUPPORT
January 28, 2010 1:00 pm LOB 204 HB 1318 post conviction DNA testing- allow you to clear your name.
Posted 01/15/2010
WE NEED YOU...
We need you MONDAY January 11, 1:00 pm at the LOB 210-211 for two hearings!
DO YOU WANT TO BECOME A CLASS B Felon? No? Neither do we! No guns in any state or town building or “place”? That means state operated rest areas too!
Your rights have been taken by fiat in an obscure committee meeting without public input or hearing!! NOW those same anti-freedom ‘representatives’ want to limit you from public participation in government while criminalizing your right to self defense. We need to HOLD THE LINE!!
Less guns = more crime! Two proposed bills attempt to void your 2nd amendment rights and your ability to defend yourself and others even when traveling on our state roads!
See HB1635 and HB1654
These two anti-freedom bills create gun free zones in New Hampshire public buildings and The New Hampshire State House, the Peoples’ house! Only those who work for the government as a paid law enforcement (who are exempt) and criminals (who will ignore the law) will be carrying firearms or other self-defense tools in public buildings. Should these bills pass the rest of us will be disarmed or jailed as Class B felons.
As in the past, GO-NH will have a shuttle service to and from the hearing beginning at 12:00 pm ending around 4:00 PM at the Concord Ice Arena, at 15 Loudon Road, Concord, NH 03301 (Directions), directly across from the Concord Post Office on Loudon Road. GO-NH also will be paying for parking at the arena. (Donations accepted to offset cost Parking is $3.00 per car plus cost of shuttle) Please attend, please call your representative.
We need you there!
Please come and be heard!
I Like Guns...
Start 2010 off with a smile. Check out this You Tube Video by Steve Lee: "I Like Guns"
GUNS BANNED IN THE STATEHOUSE!
They have BANNED GUNS in the statehouse! The Joint Committee on Legislative Facilities, the committee that typically decides on what color to paint the halls, repair the roof, amount of salaries and other housekeeping matters have decided to TAKE AWAY your second amendment rights!! No notice, no opportunity to be heard, nothing! GO-NH has friends everywhere (and thank goodness to a Republican friend for this scoop minutes after the vote, he called the GO-PHONE to report this travesty of justice).
The NH Legislative Facilities Committee voted today to ban firearms in the NH State House.
This is a Joint Committee, and members are:
Sylvia Larsen (D)
Terie Norelli (D)
Margaret Hassan (D)
Mary Jane Wallner (D)
Peter Bragdon (R)
Sherman Packard (R)
Lou D'Allesandro (D)
Marjorie Smith (D)
Daniel Eaton (D)
Gene Chandler (R)
Martha Fuller Clark (D)
Sheila Roberge (R)
The Joint Facilities committee just passed by an 8-3 vote (party lines)
the following regulation on the State House:
"No person, except for law enforcement personnel in active duty, shall
carry a firearm or other dangerous or deadly weapon or an explosive,
openly or concealed, while inside the State House, the Legislative
Office Building, the Upham Walker House, or any of the underground
tunnels connected to these buildings. Law enforcement personnel, when
requested by State House security staff, must produce sufficient
identification establishing their status as law enforcement personnel."
RSA's that establish and outline the duties of the Facilities Committee
The Facilities Committee
House Rules governing the carrying of weapons (Sec 63)
Article 22 of the Constitution
We would like to send a big thank you to Senator Bragdon and his staff for their incredibly prompt and helpful assistance in preparing this alert.
Posted 12/21/2009
Illegal jewelry | PennyDean.org
"Common sense be damned. This woman had her necklace taken by airport
security because it looked like a gun"...pennydean.org
Posted 11/24/2009
WHAT HAPPENED IN LONDONDERRY
Gun owners of New Hampshire doesn’t usually spend time bragging about our ever vigilant efforts pertaining to gun owners’ rights, however the recent series of events surrounding the town of Londonderry’s Pistol/Revolver License to carry application and the “me too gun groups” require comment. Please see the letter and comments that follows: Letter from Londonderry Town Councilor.
Prior to GO-NH, Inc. discussions with Londonderry Town Councilor Paul DiMarco, GO-NH apprised Assistant Commissioner Earl Sweeney of the issue. It has been a few years since GO-NH had sent a letter to all NH Chiefs outlining “the only forms to be used for LTC application” and describing lawful licensing procedures, "Licensing entities setting a law abiding example under RSA 159", GO-NH made the front page of Articulable Suspicion in an article entitled “Penny for her Thoughts!”.
Despite what you may have heard, GO-NH, Inc. meets and consults with public officials at all levels, commissioners, governors, mayors, the attorney general, NH State Representatives & Senators, United States senators & United States representatives, local officials including police chiefs from time to time throughout the year to inform, educate, and hopefully resolve firearm related issues before they escalate.
Although GO-NH approached Londonderry town officials to resolve this issue, we believe that the communication from Assistant Commissioner Earl Sweeney to the Londonderry Police Department served to reinforce our position (thank you Assistant Commissioner Sweeney!).
Once again be assured that GO-NH is ever vigilant, and looking out for your gun rights as we have for the past 30+ years. We often resolve the issues without fanfare on a personal level, and if that doesn’t work you will hear from us with the Minute Man Alert.
Let the other guys spend time grabbing headlines; we will be quietly getting the job done!
Posted 11/20/2009
ACTION REQUIRED
They’re at it again, trying to take away your 2nd Amendment & Article 2-a rights!! They want to prohibit the open carrying of firearms in a public building!
Representative Delamar D. Burridge , of Keene, NH (352-5363) is the prime sponsor of H-2196-R ( legislative service request, language of bill not yet available) a bill to take away your rights!!!
Call the members of the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee and ask them to vote ITL (inexpedient to legislate on this bill) tell them that you do not care what the “final” language of this bill says, any restriction on your rights is not acceptable that you will be watching this bill, and watching how they vote on this bill.
Call your Representatives and tell them that you do not care what the “final” language of this bill says, any restriction on your rights is not acceptable, and to vote no on this bill if it reaches the house floor for a vote. Find your Representative at: Who's my legislator?
Man Fired for Looking at Gun Web Sites
Read about it at CBS News Blogs: "Taking Liberties"
2009 GO NH Service Rifle Team
Front Row Left to Right, Shooting Members: Stewart Pitts, Chris Pitts, David Lavoie, Ryan Blasi, George Smith, Luke Utley Team captain
Standing, Team support: Andrew Pitts Score Keeper, Ev Tate Target Puller, Randy Enger Target Puller
CONGRESS MOVES AHEAD TO STEP #2 OF ANTI-GUN BUDGET FRAUD SCHEME S. 391
Congress is moving closer to a showdown over the largest expansion of government in human history -- a bill which would require virtually every single American to buy government-approved health insurance, whether they wanted it or not. And, in the process, that bill would feed all of your most confidential medical data into an enormous database, which could be used to take away your guns.
Get the details at our Legislative Alerts page.
MINUTEMAN ALERT
SB 132 A CALL TO ARMS!
THURSDAY, April 23, 2009, 11:00 am Legislative Office Building Room 306 (33 N. State Street, Concord, NH 03301) NH General Court
SB 132 as amended by the Senate would essentially abolish the Fish and Game Commission dissolving the agency and giving the Department of Safety (New Hampshire State Police) jurisdiction and control over Conservation Officers. We have no idea what will happen to license fees and game management practices. This bill proposes to create a 16 member commission with the commission members to be appointed primarily by unelected bureaucrats. This move would also give Fish and Game only one vote of 16 with the other 15 commissioners primarily appointed positions.
Why do you care if you don’t fish or hunt? Well, MANY regulations pertaining to firearms and their use come under Fish and Game Regulations, or have been generated by the Fish and Game Commission as a means of regulating hunting and fishing. Having 15 potentially anti-hunting anti-firearm individuals setting seasons, deciding limits and making other decisions pertaining to New Hampshire Wildlife will be a disaster and a slow death for the New Hampshire way of life. Remember, the sound of shooting is the sound of freedom! GO-NH, Inc. http://gonh.org/
If you cannot attend, Please call and/or email the committee Members and sponsors of the bill Sponsors, and ask them to remove the Fish and Game Commission from this bill.
Follow the current status of the this bill by clicking here.
Docket of SB 132
Ranges safe from nuisance lawsuits pertaining to noise
In a unanimous decision, the New Hampshire Supreme Court affirmed the Rockingham County Superior Court's decision granting summary judgment to Country Pond Fish and Game Club, Inc., based upon its conclusion that RSA 159-B (Supp. 2008) barred the Sara Reality, LLC's action and was not unconstitutional.
What does this mean in PLAIN ENGLISH??
New Hampshire ranges that were legally operating when anti-firearm town officials enact "noise" ordinances are still protected from noise complaints by state law! This case was watched closely by GO-NH, Inc. One of our Board members is the president of Country Pond and GO-NH attorney Penny Dean had provided legal research and informational packets to the committees considering this bill, and supplied endless research assistance to those guiding and supporting the bill through the arduous process.
New Hampshire ranges can breathe a sigh of relief knowing they are safe from nuisance lawsuit pertaining to noise!
Four NH Juniors Qualify for Junior Olympic National Championship
Congratulations to Jessica Levine and Megan Polonsky who travelled to Colorado Springs to compete in the Junior Olympic National Championship, April 4th thru April 7th.
Congratulations to Brad Driscoll and Brian Jylkka who are travelling to Colorado Springs to compete in the Air Rifle, Prone and 3P Junior Olympic National Championships, Arpil 10th thru April 14th.
Check out how these juniors did at USAShooting.com
GO-NH Round Up
On Tuesday, March 17, 2009, GO-NH held its annual membership ROUND-UP with great success. Standing room only at the Concord Holiday Inn ballroom! Great speakers such as N. H. State Representative Welch, Mike Langdon with Friends of the NRA and Nationally recognized guest on radio talk shows and NH Pro Firearms Attorney and advocate Penny Dean, (who earned her and J.D. and LL.M. from Franklin Pierce Law Center, her BA in Justice, Morality and the Constitution from James Madison College at Michigan State University. Attorney Dean is licensed to practice law in all federal and state courts in Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, the D.C. Circuit and the United States Supreme Court. Attorney Dean is an NRA Certified Pistol Instructor, Hunter Safety Instructor, Range Safety Officer and a Lethal Force Institute I, II, and III graduate).
There were free raffle give-aways from donated prizes (You missed it! Don’t worry, we will be giving away a great door prize at our monthly meetings the 3rd Tuesday of each month-please join us). We had an open forum with a free exchange of ideas and information on firearms law to help keep law abiding firearms owners out of trouble.
For future meetings we plan to show short “movie clips” pertaining to civil rights and firearms ownership and have question and answer periods afterwards.
Like all 2nd amendment organizations in this country right now, GO-NH realizes we are at a crossroads in this country. Many likeminded people say “I'm a member of the NRA”, or other group (which is great, but the NRA works on the national level and GO-NH educates and inform individuals on the State level). GO-NH, Inc. meets monthly. As a member, you vote annually to elect the leadership and have a say in how things get done. If we are to maintain our freedom loving way of life, YOU must act. Education and information is the key. We want and need more members. We are all busy, but each letter you send, each call you make MATTERS, and joining us allows us to keep YOU informed as to what is happening in the Live Free or Die State. To join GO-NH via credit card, call 603-225-4664 (225-GO-NH), or print out an application and mail with a check or credit card information, you’ll be glad you did!
Photos from the event
GO-NH Provides Grant to Hunt for the Hungry
On Tuesday, October 21, the Gun Owners of New Hampshire Board of Directors provided a $1,000 grant to the New Hampshire Food Bank in support of the Hunt for the Hungry program.
Gun Owners of New Hampshire is partnered with the New Hampshire Food Bank and the Department of Fish & Game in Hunt for the Hungry, which Gun Owners of New Hampshire volunteers helped to establish years ago.
Last year, New Hampshire hunters donated a record-shattering 3,288 pounds of wild game meat, almost triple the 2006 total, providing essential and nutritious protein to the Food Bank's inventory to supply 350 food pantries, soup kitchens, homeless shelters and group homes statewide.
Due to the overwhelming growth of the program and the increasing costs and need in these tough economic times, GO-NH provided the grant to support the expenses of the program, and is working with the Food Bank to help insure its continued success in 2008.
If you wish to donate part or all of your kill to the Food Bank, or volunteer your time or services for the program, please contact fellow hunter and program coordinator Michelle Garron via e-mail or at (603)669-9725 ext. 112.
If you would like to donate money to the cause of fighting hunger in New Hampshire, or become a Freedom From Hunger monthly donor, follow this link.
Shop Online, Support GO-NH
iGive.com is a new, easy way for you to support GO-NH with everything you buy online! Hundreds of online merchants rebate a small percentage of your purchase which you can then automatically donate to GO-NH! Were you planning anyway to make a purchase at Bass Pro Shops, Cabela's, Dunham's, Eastern Mountain Sports, or Jeffers Equine? Are you going to rent a car, see a movie, share photos, or get new snow tires?
Why not put a percentage of that purchase to work for firearms freedom in New Hampshire?
Sign up at iGive.com, choose Gun Owners of New Hampshire as your cause, and make it happen! iGive even has a Shopping Window that will automatically link your shopping to iGive donations so you don't even have to check the merchant list before you shop!
Note: Contributions and dues to Gun Owners of New Hampshire are not tax-deductible.
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