New Hampshire Senate Passes Gun Control Measures Along Party Lines

By Tom Knighton

New Hampshire’s state motto is “Live Free or Die.” It’s a sentiment many in the gun rights community can relate to. We tend to understand the importance of liberty and are willing to defend it with our lives. We fight gun control so we have the means to do so.

However, New Hampshire legislators have apparently forgotten their own state motto.

The State Senate approved along strict, party-line votes three gun control measures Thursday closing a background check loophole, imposing a three-day waiting period to buy a gun and permitting local school boards to ban guns on their property.

But the identical 13-10 votes with all Democrats for and all Republican senators against send each one of them back the House of Representatives for its review because senators made substantial changes to them.

Supporters maintained all three were “common sense” reforms to make it harder for violent or mentally unstable people to buy firearms.

“This (gun background check) bill will not stop every tragedy regarding a gun but it will help stop needless suffering by our citizens,” said Sen. Martha Hennessey, D-Hanover, a retired school psychologist who led the effort to pass all three.

Well, she’s right that it won’t stop every tragedy, …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms