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ICYMI: Gun Bill Okays Concealed Firearms Without Permit

by: William Tucker

Sat Oct 22, 2011 at 10:30:55 AM EDT

New Hampshire residents should not be required to obtain a permit to carry a loaded, concealed firearm. So says the New Hampshire House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee, which voted to recommend passage of a bill making a "license to carry" voluntary.

HB 536 would allow anyone, except convicted felons and the mentally ill, to carry a concealed weapon without a license. It would also ease restrictions on the buying and selling of firearms.

It's a sign of the times that this was a "compromise" version. The original version of the bill also legalized blackjacks, brass knuckles and slingshots, and ended the ban on guns in courtrooms. It made it a crime for the police to "interfere" with the right to carry.

“We believe the Constitution is an individual license to carry,” said James Wheeler, treasurer of the New Hampshire Firearms Coalition. “Citizens shouldn’t be required to ask for permission from the government before they exercise their constitutional rights.”

Sunapee Police Chief David Cahill said the bill eliminates the careful balance that current law strikes on concealed weapons permits.

“To think that government is taking away one of your Second Amendment rights through permitting, I think is ridiculous,” said Cahill, who just ended a term as president of the N.H. Association of Chiefs of Police.

“Going without a permit to carry just opens the door for all those people who wouldn’t have been able to get one,” he said.
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This is GOP job creation (0.00 / 0)
EMT's, hospitals, doctors, nurses, and undertakers need work, too, y'know.

This means any idiot with a restraining order against him for domestic violence can carry a gun "without permission." Brilliant plan.  

Except they're laying those folks off at the same time. (0.00 / 0)
Incongruent policies from small thinkers.  

I really do think we'll look back on this time period as the high water mark for a failed ideology.

In the immediate aftermath of the financial crisis, the Fed/Treasury lent, spent, or guaranteed $28 trillion to save the banking system.

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Don't Worry (0.00 / 0)
There is an LSR for a bill that will provide anyone who files for a restraining order a handgun, ammo and shooting lessons.  At least it will be a fair fight that way.  
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God help us (4.00 / 2)
God help us that we can survive until the next election....
Constitutionl rights (4.00 / 5)
And yet, these very same people think it's much too dangerous to let people vote without a government-issued photo ID?
Firearms are a basic right, but marriage.... (0.00 / 0)
...not so much.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. --Marcus Aurelius, courtesy of Paul Berch
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And apparently voting. n/t (0.00 / 0)

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Are Drivers Licenses Next? (0.00 / 0)
Or maybe Food Services Licenses?  I dont like paying for all those license fees and its my Constitutional right to earn a living right?
Now you're getting it. n/t (0.00 / 0)


They. Don't. Care.
We do.
Rinse, repeat.
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A permit is not a permission slip. (4.00 / 1)
A permit is a convenience for the agents of law enforcement, in this case, to know who's maybe carrying a gun, or not. What good that serves law enforcement is unclear.

When a permit is issued for a parade or to utilize the facilities of a park for a large group, the application process puts the public officials on notice about what services are going to be needed.

Congregating in a park without a permit may be a discourtesy to the community at large, but if there are no additional services required, there's no harm and no fault.

Some public officials think they are in charge of what people do and reject the concept of public servant.  That's a problem which needs to be corrected by hiring better servants.

GOTTA HAVE A GOV. I.D. TO VOTE BUT NUTTIN TO BE PACKIN----UH HUNH---THAT MAKES SENSE ONLY TO THE GOPER ! (0.00 / 0)

PHOTO ID---MY MISS. (0.00 / 0)

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