Holy Fuddville! (FFL holder) David Simkin from Nashua AND Penny Dean both trying to get the bill listed as ITL. Simkin telling the committee that vets with High Level Security Clearances are more likely to be denied an approval (delayed). Really? Moron hasn't figured out that NH DOS uses NICS anyway. Penny Dean claiming that people can get answer quickly from the NH Gun Line (although their website specifically states an answer within 14 days).
1:32:00 to 1:58:00. Another "FFL" Blackton/Blackdon said "What if they close down NICS and the NH Line?" Who will we call for handguns. Duh, again, if NICS is shut down, the NH Line won't work.
First, my name is Jay Simkin and I've held an FFl for a tad short of 40 years. I personally carry-out background checks on those, to whom I sell or transfer firerms.
Second, the FBI-NICS center personnel are contractors,
not Federal government employees. First-level agents FBI-NICS agents do not have security clearances adequate to allow them to see records of those who hold (or have held) high-level security clearances, e.g., Federal civilian employees and contractors; former members of the Special Ops units (SEALs, Delta Force, Marine ForceRecon; etc.). So, if an FFL (dealer) calls-in a request for such a civilian or veteran - and there's no one at work in the NICS Center with an adequate clearance - the request is "Delayed", until a reviewer is on duty, who has an adequate clearance.
State of New Hampshire employees - who are NOT contractors - can view all records required to make a decision as to whether or not a recipient is qualified to receive a firearm. The issue is NOT with the databases used. It is with the qualifications of those, who consult those databases.
It would be well if those - who do not actually themselves do background checks (e.g., Attorney List) - would not pontificate about a process, that they do not actually use. Only FFL-holders - and their qualified employees - can carry-out background checks.
Third, as to Attorney Penny Dean's qualifications, be advised that she enabled me to recoup a wrongly-revoked MA Non-resident Temporary License to Carry Firearms. The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts so ordered in 2013 (
FRB v. Simkin, 466 Mass. 168, (2013)). The license has since been renewed each year.
The New Hampshire Supreme Court ordered the restoration of Gregory DuPont's wrongly-revoked NH Pistol and Revolver License and his Armed Security Guard License. Atty. Dean and I (as a non-attorney representative, under NH Supreme Court Rule No. 33(2) and with the Court's gracious leave) appeared for DuPont before the NH Supreme Court. We filed DuPont's briefs (each license required its own appeal), and argued for DuPont before the Court. That decision - strongly in DuPont's favor - was issued in 2015 (
DuPont v. Nashua Police Dep't, 167 NH 429 (2015).
That 2015 decision helped to undermine the position of viciously anti-gun Massachusetts officials, who wrongly supported BATFE's claim that the Massachusetts Firearms Licensing Review Board (FLRB) could not restore the civil right to be armed of certain Massachusetts residents.
DuPont had obtained such a restoration, because he merited it. As a result of lawsuits filed by MA residents, the FLRB has regained the capacity to restore the civil right to be armed for certain MA misdemeanants. What, if anything, BATFE does about that remains to be seen. The Feds knew about the FLRB's creation (under a 2004 law) and FLRB restorations for over a decade, before objecting.
In short, do homework" - get to the facts of a matter - before posting.