Dear Senator:
I oppose New Hampshire Senate Bill 244 -- legislation to extend gun bans to perhaps thousands of Granite State residents.
Under this bill, if you ever have a guardian appointed pursuant to RSA 464-A, then you will lose your gun rights -- permanently. This will happen, even if the guardian is appointed in a "star chamber" ex parte proceeding without any due process because, for instance, you were to arrive at a hospital incoherent or unconscious.
Under this bill, if you are committed to a mental institution pursuant to RSA 135C:34-45, you will lose your gun rights -- permanently. And, under a "weasel word loophole" in the bill, the government could take away your guns, even if the commitment is made by a psychiatrist without a court order pursuant to RSA 135C:27.
Please see the supporting memoranda from Michael Hammond -- who is a Dunbarton resident and the Legislative Counsel for Gun Owners of America -- at the following URLs:
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http://www.gunowners.org/state1112014.htm
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http://www.gunowners.org/state1132014.htm
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http://www.gunowners.org/state1162014.htm
On January 14, gun owners from all over New Hampshire jammed the State House halls to testify against this anti-gun bill. But the committee, which chose to hold the hearing in a tiny room which excluded pro-gunners, instead heard one anti-gunner after another, even barring testimony from a pro-gun state representative who would normally be accorded courtesy under Senate procedures.
The lying anti-gunners whom the committee chose to hear claimed that S.B. 244 would not disqualify any Granite Stater from owning a gun.
THIS AN ABSOLUTE BALD-FACED LIE.
Gun Owners of America has repeatedly held up the example of its Legislative Counsel's mother, who had an RSA 464-A guardian appointed because of Alzheimer's. She was not, in 1998, stripped of her Second Amendment rights and entered on the gun-ban NICS blacklist. But she would be if this bill were passed into law.
The anti-gun loons who are pushing this bill would argue that our counsel's mother was an unacknowledged prohibited person. But if this is true, so is every New Hampshire resident who is on Medicare and who has Alzheimer's ... every New Hampshire resident who, as a child, was diagnosed with ADHD under the federal IDEA program ... and every New Hampshire policeman or firearm receiving Social Security disability for PTSD.
The notion that New Hampshire somehow has the obligation to turn in every New Hampshire resident whom the ATF would like to strip of guns under its impermissibly broad regulations is a dangerous and unacceptable one.
Therefore, I would insist that you oppose S.B. 244.
Finally, I would like you to consider two additional articles for your edification:
* One is a description of a heroic veteran who has lost his constitutional rights due to gun-grabbers such as the ones who testified before your committee. (See
http://tinyurl.com/nvktknq.)
* The second is about efforts by doctors to resist demands that they be unwitting instruments of the anti-gun Obama administration. (See
http://tinyurl.com/ntd34t7.)
Regards,
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