Adding Teeth To The 10th

[mrjarrell]

We've all seen the Firearms Freedom Acts popping up everywhere (except in Indiana, a fed gov loving state if there ever was one). Now comes news from New Hampshire that they've added teeth to their provisions. This will force the local enforcers to finally choose sides, should this pass. No more siding with the feds against the citizenry.

From the Gun Rights Examiner

Come we now to the "Live Free or Die" state, New Hampshire, and more specifically, House Bill 1285, introduced on Jan. 6. In a nutshell:

This bill exempts firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition manufactured in New Hampshire from federal law and regulation.
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And it adds teeth absent in counterparts from other states:

159-E:4 Penalty.

I. Any public servant of the State of New Hampshire as defined in RSA 640:2 that enforces or attempts to enforce a act, order, law, statute, rule or regulation of the government of the United States upon a personal firearm, a firearm accessory, or ammunition that is manufactured commercially or privately in New Hampshire and that remains within the State of New Hampshire shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.

II. Any official, agent, or employee of the government of the United States, or employee of a corporation providing services to the government of the United States that enforces or attempts to enforce a act, order, law, statute, rule or regulation of the government of the United States upon a personal firearm, a firearm accessory, or ammunition that is manufactured commercially or privately in New Hampshire and that remains within the State of New Hampshire shall be guilty of a class B felony.
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The bill is currently in the Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee, with a hearing scheduled for Jan. 20.

Will we get to see the local enforcers drawing down on the BATFU? Or will they refuse to obey their own laws? Regardless, some folks in New Hampshire are going to have to choose a side.

 

[Scutter01]

There were several stories posted just in the last couple of days about a similar bill proposed in the Indiana legislature (admittedly without the teeth indicated above, but you gotta start somewhere), as well as a story about the ATF making pointed remarks about Tennessee's recently-passed law.

 

[XMil]

II. Any official, agent, or employee of the government of the United States, or employee of a corporation providing services to the government of the United States that enforces or attempts to enforce a act, order, law, statute, rule or regulation of the government of the United States upon a personal firearm, a firearm accessory, or ammunition that is manufactured commercially or privately in New Hampshire and that remains within the State of New Hampshire shall be guilty of a class B felony.

OMG. I think it moved.

 

[dross]

OMG. I think it moved.

Only a death spasm, I fear.