It's not bizarre - they know NH law better than GOA and they think they have an amendment that will net improve things for NH gun rights (the 'get off the list' process which doesn't exist today). And the NRA is on the fence but NRA's own legislative action group supports it with something like the proposed amendment.
All that said, this is not an R-controlled house year and I think their amendment attempts will fail or be co-opted (or time wasted and no bill passed despite spending political capital and time) so I still strongly oppose it.
Nevertheless, we shouldn't all be simplistic children and go "it talks about federal law O NOEZ" every time we see a bill reference federal law. There are superb opportunities to in effect hack federal law at the state level and we shouldn't be naive or dismissive about them. Someday perhaps with a solid supermajority, we can... oh wait, no we can't because ALL the groups will shoot down EVEN CONSTITUTIONAL CARRY unless it meets exactly each of their conflicting criteria.
This **** has to stop.
PGNH just lost my respect and support....forever
I respect the HELL out of Evan Nappen but this bill is horribly flawed and terribly misguided.
If they WANTED to provide a legal means to force the state of NH to transmit a record of a person who had been cleared of mental issues to NICS that would have been easy enough to accomplish
But supporting the rest of this trainwreck does nothing but subvert NH and our legislature and further undermine our rights by supporting the patently unconstitutional 68 GCA and NICS.
They've missed the point entirely that this should not be a federal issue as the Fed gov has no power under the US Constitution for NICS to begin with,