Posted on 01/03/2006 9:51:35 AM PST by Dada Orwell
NRA !
Oh my gosh. So the prison population in NO was let loose because none of the local or state authorities thought to relocate them when Katrina was coming.
Can you blame people for wanting guns with criminals on the loose?
More importantly, how do we know that it wasn't the criminals who mostly took the guns to begin with?
What is amusing about this entire episode...from New Hampshire to New Orleans...is that we have a consitution that allows for freedom to bear arms. You would think that the constitution overrules just about anything in the book in US law...and this NH law wouldn't even be necessary...yet as these fools in NO have proven...people are not even capable of enforcing the consitution.
bttt
We heard from Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Stephen Breyer that the Constitution means whatever they say it means.
Justice Scalia points out that this means that there is no Constitution, just a body of personal preferences of the justices.
Live free or die.
It sounds like a great plan but I still find it amazing that any state thinks it can assert any authority over the fedgov.
I have armed my bear, he's out back of my house hiding waiting for the next election, HELP!!! the liberals have taken over my state!!!!
Opening line media bias alert.
There was nothing perceived about it. They were abuses!
Here it is:
HB 1639-FN AS INTRODUCED
2006 SESSION
06-2881
09/04
HOUSE BILL 1639-FN
AN ACT prohibiting the confiscation of lawfully owned and lawfully carried firearms during a state of emergency.
SPONSORS: Rep. Hopfgarten, Rock 5; Rep. Bicknell, Rock 1; Rep. Lund, Rock 5; Rep. Hellwig, Hills 27
COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice and Public Safety
ANALYSIS
This bill prohibits law enforcement officers and other public officials from confiscating lawfully owned and lawfully carried firearms during a state of emergency.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
06-2881
09/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Six
AN ACT prohibiting the confiscation of lawfully owned and lawfully carried firearms during a state of emergency.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; State of Emergency; Confiscation of Firearms Prohibited. Amend RSA 4:46 by inserting after paragraph VI the following new paragraph:
VII.(a) Any law enforcement officer, person acting as a law enforcement officer, or other public official who confiscates or attempts to confiscate lawfully carried or lawfully owned firearms in this state during a declared state of emergency shall be charged with a class A felony.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of RSA 651:2, any violation of this paragraph shall be punishable by a fine of not less than $5,000, a letter of reprimand by the violators chief presiding law enforcement officer, and imprisonment for not less than 30 days in a state correctional facility.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
LBAO
06-2881
11/2/05
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2006/HB1639.html
Someone tell your gungrabbing hoplophobe neighbor Mitt Romney.
He's never heard of the Constitution.
This causes me to have some hope that our Republic may last!
Tiger wrote: "... I still find it amazing that any state thinks it can assert any authority over the fedgov."
Then stand in amazement.
Right next door in Massachusetts, Romney has revoked the second amendment entirely.
Where's the hope?
New Hampshire is only a little bigger than Mt Carmel.
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