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I'm shocked
Also color me shocked. The NH gun call-in line is one slow process. Sitting in a gun store for an hour or more. The second word in NICS is "instant" so I would imagine NICS is an instantaneous or damn near close process.
I'm no fan of NH having a separate process for handguns, I know the history that created it but now it's just a waste of taxpayer money. But NICS is far from instant, I've waited an hour for a NICS. And sometimes the NH check is quick, I bought a Mark III at SO not long ago and was amazed by a 15 minute approval, sometimes it's just in the timing.
Did you say SO?I'm no fan of NH having a separate process for handguns, I know the history that created it but now it's just a waste of taxpayer money. But NICS is far from instant, I've waited an hour for a NICS. And sometimes the NH check is quick, I bought a Mark III at SO not long ago and was amazed by a 15 minute approval, sometimes it's just in the timing.
NH House Bill 109 – calling for Universal Background Checks for every purchase of a firearm – will wrongfully deny even more Granite Staters their rights! It is sponsored by NH Democrat Representative Katherine Rogers [yes, the same Democrat Rep who pleaded guilty to assault the day before Christmas 2017].
I'm no fan of NH having a separate process for handguns, I know the history that created it but now it's just a waste of taxpayer money. But NICS is far from instant, I've waited an hour for a NICS. And sometimes the NH check is quick, I bought a Mark III at SO not long ago and was amazed by a 15 minute approval, sometimes it's just in the timing.
Did you say SO?
I've never waited over an hour.
So is that shit getting shut down? NICS is only supposed to be used by FFLs at the point of sale of a gun, not by anyone else, at any other time, including by state level LEOs, correct? That kinda nonsense never made sense to me. I believe PA also has a similar system in place...
NH has a NICS POC for handgun transfers instituted around the time of the brady bill. It was a wallhack to get around the mandatory 3 day wait at the time. (ATF allowed states to do this, and in turn if they did it, it allowed them to waive the mandatory brady wait for their resident handgun buyers. ) . It was a good idea, back then, but
then once the brady bullshit was nullified, its entire purpose was also nullified, but NH law was never amended to revert the handgun checks back to federal only control.
Basically the NH NICS POC is just legacy garbage at this point. There were some bills to get rid of it but they never went anywhere. The GOP squandered its opportunity to fix this
problem on a few occasions.
-Mike
So politics as usual.Typical... An obsolete and useless bureaucracy attempting to justify its existence in the face of overwhelming evidence that it is, in fact, obsolete and useless...
I've pointed out for years that NH should not be a POC state, and should leave federal issues to the feds.
I got yelled out, denounced, called anti-2A and anti-gun, by the victim of Katherine Rogers' assault.
Please read this and consider there are some NH residents who need the NH POC. Search for Penny Dean, an NH attorney who specializes in gun rights, see what she has to say (there are comments from her about it online)..
There are good people out there, who are 100% legal to own guns but are denied by the FBI, and get a proceed via the state of NH (because when checks are conducted in NH they are much more careful in vetting the data and provide a more consistently correct response, versus jumping to conclusions - such takes time)..
Additionally if you are denied via NH you can actually contact them via a lawyer for a very quick response and review - ie not using the ridiculous FBI appeals process, rather your lawyer can communicate with a real person who cares about 2A and is in charge of the department. They have a simple form they quickly respond to via email and even sit down meetings can be arranged if needed.
The FBI on the other hand, has a ridiculously unfair appeals process that can take years to complete, and sometimes requires actually being sued such that one can excercise this basic right.
NH POC is very important to keep, at least for handguns, and some wish they were used for all checks.
I think she was still stuck in the Brady Bill waiting period mindset, even though this was years after NICS was solidly in place.Yes, she can be rather, shall we say, acerbic but she is in our camp on so many other things. Maybe that's why I'm fairly quick to give her a pass. What was her reasoning why coming out against leaving it to the feds would be considered anti-2A, or did she give you one.