Firearms Owners Against Crime
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[Posted Wednesday, June 15, 2011, at 11:30 p.m.] The Constitutional Carry movement is spreading across the country. It's the right to carry a concealed handgun without a government-issued license or permit - as in Wyoming (2011), Arizona (2010), Alaska (2003), and Vermont (1903)(!).
After months of work on the part of many people to bring Constitutional Carry to New Hampshire, the NRA, with the help of its state affiliate Gun Owners of New Hampshire (GO-NH), today killed Constitutional Carry by bullying NH state senators to remove portions of SB88 in a committee of conference.
We at Pro-Gun New Hampshire (PGNH) worked into the wee hours of the morning of June 15 in order to be sure our members would be proud to put their names on compromise legislation. Although various versions of Constitutional Carry bills had been debated for some time by the legislature and by the several active gun groups in the state, PGNH understood that good policy is far more important than egos and personalities - so when NRA representative John Hohenwarter presented a compromise amendment, we agreed to look at it. Emails to the PGNH president from the senate president encouraging full participation by all groups did not go unheeded. The Senate President even made phone calls to let everyone know he was serious about working together.