Moving to NH- purchasing process / regs

[JenkkiMike]

sounds like its merely a suggestion then

Meet for a cup of coffee and chat for ten minutes about your family, what you do for work, etc. Now you personally know each other. Does the law specify how well or how long you have to personally know the other person?

 

[Racenet]

Meet for a cup of coffee and chat for ten minutes about your family, what you do for work, etc. Now you personally know each other. Does the law specify how well or how long you have to personally know the other person?

No it does not.

 

[drgrant]

It does not but think in reasonable person terms. "If the other guy starts running their mouth are they going to throw you under the bus?" If the answer is yes then you do not personally know them, lol.

Think about what the average meathead juror is thinking when the law gets read to them in court....

Admittedly most of this is Much Ado About absolutely nothing because most gun sales happen in America without any problem whatsoever....

 

[tuna]

Its sad to see how badly some people are beaten down to thinking they need permission to own a gun simply by growing up in a socialist state.

Guilty.

I had to explain that I was an escapee at the LGS when they kept looking at me funny for weird questions:
"Do you mind if I let my son hold this rifle?"
"Do you need to see ID?" (after asking to see a handgun)
"What permits do my kids need for youth hunting weekend?"

When I explained being a recent mass resident, and just a bit of the insanity that is the MGLs, my questions started to be answered by, "Here in the United States....."


Because of COVAIDS, I had a tough time getting my driver's license, as the DMV wanted me to keep using my soviet one since it wasn't expired. But they I couldn't get a fishing license - so I was finally able to get the damn DL. When I had my first free state purchase on order (.357 lever action carbine - just because I CAN own "free state guns" doesn't mean I want to, LOL) I explained this to the LGS. He asked if I could wait to pick up the gun until I had the DL - not for any law, not any rule, not any regulation. But to make things easier and to avoid any stupidity. I thought that was a fair request, and it wound up only being an extra couple days.

 

[DarthRevan]

OP, go green.

 

[microwave900]

An arrest (depending on "crime"* ) with a dismissal can even be enough to trigger a delay. I've talked to police officers who actually got arrested at some point in their life and got a dismissal who are basically cursed with NICS AIDS and get delayed constantly....

*i use the term crime with skepticism because some of the shit people get arrested for vs reality would make ones head spin. It's really a travesty that there's no true expungement policy in MA.

I have some good news for you. MA has always allowed sealing a record, but thanks to a 2018 law it is now also possible to expunge a record, which means MA will actually destroy the records. I suspect that FBI/NICS never deletes anything, but at least the new law helps at a state level.

For many people with an arrest but no conviction, MA never bothered to send the not-guilty/CWOF/dismissed disposition to the FBI, so convincing the state to send that along may be the better way to speed up one’s NICS checks. (I would be hesitant to expunge such a record before updating the disposition, because I could imagine getting in a situation where the feds don’t know if you were found guilty and the state no longer knows either.)

Expunge Your Criminal Record

Depending on the conviction and the amount of time that has passed, you may be eligible to expunge your criminal record.

www.mass.gov

 

[42!]

I have some good news for you. MA has always allowed sealing a record, but thanks to a 2018 law it is now also possible to expunge a record, which means MA will actually destroy the records. I suspect that FBI/NICS never deletes anything, but at least the new law helps at a state level.

For many people with an arrest but no conviction, MA never bothered to send the not-guilty/CWOF/dismissed disposition to the FBI, so convincing the state to send that along may be the better way to speed up one’s NICS checks. (I would be hesitant to expunge such a record before updating the disposition, because I could imagine getting in a situation where the feds don’t know if you were found guilty and the state no longer knows either.)

Expunge Your Criminal Record

Depending on the conviction and the amount of time that has passed, you may be eligible to expunge your criminal record.

www.mass.gov

What can be expunged is highly limited. And in an odd twist, only if you were found guilty, you can't expunge the dismissal or cwof/dismissed. Basically it has to be a "criminal" record, which only comes with a conviction, otherwise it's a court record. And they are under the self delusion that things ending in a dismissal have no lasting affect. I actually tried, and discovered this.