This means that HB1660 and its companion bill, SB677 were both killed this session. If you recall, back in January and February, the New Hampshire Firearms Coalition and Gun Owners of America led the efforts to stop these two bills. When others said we would lose, we never gave up. Both groups poured a huge amount of time and energy into this effort.
Why these two bills, you ask… Well, in December the NHFC board realized that the two most likely bills that could pass this year were the companion bills on “eldercare”. There was a great push in the media last fall to make this a ‘critical’ piece of 2020 legislation. The AARP pushed hard to pass this type of legislation. Both of these bills were back door gun control and gun confiscation measures. Both of these bills came straight out of the Bloomberg play book.
SB677 was a mainly Republican sponsored bill that was almost a clone of HB1660. Our board boldly highlighted these bills’ flaws, even when others said these bills were “unstoppable”. In January and February we focused all of our efforts on stopping SB677. The effort worked.
Our motto “New Hampshire’s only NO-COMPROMISE gun rights organization” holds true. We also: Never, Ever give up!!!
During the winter, NHFC spent a lot for postage to alert gun-owners in certain senators’ district as to the dangers posed by SB6777 and HB1660. We spent wisely! In March, the Senate sent B677 to interim study effectively killing that bill. As a result, we were able to focus on stopping HB1660. On Tuesday Governor Sununu stood up and again kept his promise to protect the rights of the law-abiding gun- owners. We have just one more bill to kill this year. HB687 will be on his desk soon. We cannot let up. As discussed in prior alerts, this bill is also out of the Bloomberg “Gun Control” playbook.
If HB687 is killed, every anti-gun bill that NHFC worked to stop will have been killed. This is the direct result of your devotion of time and effort!
We must thank Governor Chris Sununu for his outstanding moral courage by vetoing a bill that the Democrats tried to ram down New Hampshire residents’ throats. His office number is 603-271-2121.
The fight is not over! The gun–banners will be back next year. We need your help more than ever.
Every other year, we mail our extensive candidate grade sheet that is based on either survey results or roll call votes or other public information to our list of statewide gun-owners. We’ll do the same this year. The tidal wave of anti-gun activity means a surge of incoming calls seeking updates. We have already sent out and received back surveys and we want to publish these results. Now we face higher printing and postage costs.
More gun owners contact us than we can afford to mail. We would love to increase the quantity of our primary and general election survey results that we mail, but we need the resources to do this.
Outside of our annual renewal letter, I do not often ask for money. The best thing you can do during the legislative season is to hit hard with phone calls and emails. The Bloomberg-funded “gun control” groups rabidly attack any candidate, who cares about protecting your civil right to be armed. We need to counter-attack, to expose the records of anti-gun zealots.
This is the time during the year where an extra gift or donation can go a long way. The board and I, all of whom are volunteers and receive no money for our efforts, plan our bi-annual survey mailing. We need to know how much we can afford to spend on postage next month. Isn’t safe-guarding your civil right to be armed worth a further $20 or $50? [Click here if you want to contribute] I want to expose the records of anti-gun legislators. I want to let gun-owners know who is friend and who is foe…., but I need your help. Every $20 donation allows us to mail an additional 40+ homes exposing the records of these gun banners.
As we plan for the legislative battles in 2021, I bring to your attention a huge surge in gun sales. Some of you have had to wait days to get approval to receive a handgun! In prior years, we have had a friend on the Executive Council, Former Counselor David Wheeler, who helped rein in delays by the Department of Safety. Unfortunately, the majority of the current Executive Council is made up of anti-gunners who are OK with the delays. Remember this when you purchase your next firearm.
At end-2017, Americans owned about 411 MILLION firearms (BATFE, Firearms Commerce in the United States, 2000 and 2019). By end-2020, Americans likely will own at least 430 MILLION firearms. There are about 280 million U.S. residents aged 19 or older. If every adult owned firearms, each would own “1.5” firearms. Plainly, many don’t own firearms. But it is safe to say that the number of firearms and firearm-owners is so large, that “gun control” is simply idiotic. Things so abundant and generally concealable cannot be controlled.
Those, who back “gun control” clearly can’t do simple math and therefore are unfit to even hold the office of dog catcher. Help the New Hampshire Firearms Coalition publish the surveys of candidates, whose inability to do math and disrespect for your civil right to be armed makes them a clear and present danger.
For Liberty ,
JR Hoell
Corporate Secretary – NHFC, Inc.
