You sure he wasn't trying to do you a favor by giving you a license that lasted the full 4 years? There's a lot of things to bitch about but I don't see the malice there.
-Mike
NH RSA 159:6 I(a) ..."shall issue a license to such applicant authorizing the applicant to carry a loaded pistol or revolver in this state for
not less than 4 years from the date of issue..."
NH RSA 159:6 I(b) ..."When required, license renewal
shall take place within the month of the fourth anniversary of the license holder's date of birth following the date of issuance."
My experience in the same town with the same CLEO is that he is a serial violator. He doesn't do "favors." He doesn't even do NH law. He maxed his MA pension, moved less than 100 yards into NH and apparently so prefers the laws of his beloved People's Republic that he simply cannot bring himself to obey the laws of NH. He also has a history in Rockingham Co. Superior Court, having been ordered to pay a plaintiff over $7,000 in legal fees for denying an application
73 days after submission!
When I moved into town, he;
- sent a letter directing me to reapply for a license that had three years remaining before expiration,
- sent a second letter with the same directive a couple weeks later (I had circular-filed the first).
When my wife applied for her license, he;
- took 23 days to issue my wife's license, then
- demanded a photocopy of her driver's license as a condition of issuance,
- put an expiration date exactly four years after issuance and not within her month of birth.
When the last two violations of the statute were pointed out to his second-in-command, he jabbed his finger on the very statutes he is bound by both oath and statute to uphold and said, "Yeah but that's the state! That's not how we do it here!"