As a person who recently moved to NH, your statement above is flat out wrong.
The idea of moving to a free(er) state than MA is that when a CoP tries to abuse his/her authority, anybody can take them to court AND WIN. And on the matter of a Pistol/Revolver License, if the court decides in the favor of the plaintiff, the CoP usually has to pay the legal costs out of their own pocket, which in the past had a strong impact on the behavior of the CoP's who lost - they either stopped abusing the process. When they did not stop because of their own checkbook being affected, they were talked to/fired by the town who did not want to keep paying to defend themselves in courts only to lose again and again, or in one case the CoP abdicated his/her authority to issue any more licenses and passed the responsibility to the town selectmen.
There will always be a government agent who wants to bend the laws - part of the reason why people move away from MA is that the MA courts consistently bend the law like a pretzel in order to rule in favor of the CoP...
The Comm2A cases are great and Comm2A deserves tons of support for doing all that work for free (no Comm2A member is paid a dime - all donations go to their mission), but please note that they need to fund raise heavily to pick a few selected fights, and in the meantime the vast majority of MA residents whose rights are trampled still do not have legal recourse.
The bolded part above is the most important for everyone to ruminate on!
In MA, the courts will almost always rule for the chief, regardless of how egregious their actions are. And even if you win, NOBODY reimburses your legal expenses . . . which are magnitudes greater than complying with almost any totally unreasonable request by your local (MA) chief.
NH has a mechanism to recover legal fees, a HUGE difference. NH courts also support the laws as written and don't go along with every renegade chief who wants to "assert my authori-tay"! In NH no tin-pot dictator can remove your 2A right to possess guns or even carry them, which is another huge difference! Even if you piss off your chief and take him to court and win, he really can't "get even" with you later (again unlike in MA)!
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Human beings being what we are, you will always find some that will follow the law religiously, some who are personally driven to "create their own law" and have huge egos, and some who will look for ways to "bend the law" to fit their wishes but won't go too overboard in the hopes that they won't get called on it. This is true regardless of your chosen profession and police are no different from any other profession . . . you deal with the good, the bad and the ugly! This doesn't change due to what state you are in, people are just people regardless of where they live.
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Try to keep these differences in perspective.