Victory in NH Senate on SB244 - for the time being

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Senate Bill 244 was introduced by an anti-gun Democrat and, as introduced, would have imposed gun bans on large classes of Granite Staters: like police and firemen with PTSD; or adults, who as kids, were diagnosed with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder; or seniors with Alzheimer's, many of whom have very large and valuable gun collections which they would like to pass on to their children.

With the approval of many of our Second Amendment friends, the Senate committee struck the outright ban, but substituted a study committee -- with a slight but significant anti-gun majority -- to study what gun bans to impose. As a result, GOA opposed the committee-reported version.

On Thursday, under withering pressure from gun owners like you, the whole Senate struck the study committee from the bill -- a big victory for the Second Amendment.

This left only one provision in the bill -- a procedure to petition for restoration of your Second Amendment rights.

We believed -- and still believe -- this procedure has flaws. But just because the bill is a "nothing-burger," it doesn't mean that it's anti-Second Amendment. We have no problem with S.B. 244, as it finally passed the Senate. Hence, there is no cause for us to continue opposing it.

We thank the Senate for listening to gun owners.

And yet there is a caveat: The House, and its anti-gun leadership, has, in the past, taken gun-related bills and used them as vehicles for its anti-gun agenda. We still have to watch very closely to make sure this doesn't happen with S.B. 244.

But, if there is a time to celebrate and thank your legislators, it is now. You took a difficult fight and achieved a hard-won victory.

ACTION: Contact your senator and, regardless of how he or she voted, tell them you’re glad the Senate body voted to kill the anti-gun study.