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Yesterday Team O'Brien expressed a small degree of contriteness and promised to be good little doobies and start focusing on the economy and the budget. I didn't hear the words "like a laser beam", but that was implied, I guess.
Today, the text for HB125, an act relative to lawful commerce in firearms, including manufacture and sale in New Hampshire was released. This bit of insanity is sponsored by Representative Dan Itse, Team O'Brien's lead man for all things constitutional, and is straight out of the Tenther playbook. In fact, the bill leads with that in an odd preamble justifying itself.
This bill essentially says to the Federal government, "When it comes to guns, stay the hell out of our state." And it backs it up with the threat to incarcerate any federal officer who dares to enforce federal gun laws here for up to seven years. If you are a state officer it's even worse. The penalty for trying to enforce federal gun laws is at least seven years in jail.
We all know that all sorts of odd bills get filed every year. That's part of the charm of a citizen legislature. But when a key member of House GOP leadership, and the guy handpicked by O'Brien to evaluate constitutionality is behind this kind of craziness, you have to start to wonder what the hell is going on up there in Concord. I don't want to see my state playing a game of chicken with Washington, and I don't think many of the citizens of the state do either. Come on, Team O'Brien, cut out the games and get down to business.
