Pro-Gun NH Comes Out Swinging For Tamworth Gun Owners
Following up on: [Town Government: We Don't Like Good People With Guns]
Seeing as the Tamworth Selectmen and Police Chief responded so negatively to mere citizens objecting to their illegal enforcement of unlawful anti-gun regulations in town, prominent state gun rights group Pro-Gun New Hampshire has now joined the fight against Selectmen Willie Farnum and John Roberts along with Police Chief Dan Poirier.
In an excellent letter to the town bureaucrats, CC’ed to the NH Department of Safety and the NH Attorney General’s office, the folks at PGNH remind the Selectmen and Police Chief yet again that their rule prohibiting firearms on town property when carried by town employees is not only unlawful, but that they may personally be held criminally and civilly liable for enforcement of it under RSA 643:1, Official Oppression.
Update: Primary legislative sponsor of RSA 159:26 and former NH state trooper writes to town Selectmen regarding their anti-gun rules.
Hats off to Sam Cohen, Elbert Bicknell, and Atty. Evan Nappen, as well as the rest of the fine people at Pro-Gun New Hampshire, for lending their name, time, and energy to help keep the town bureaucrats at bay on this issue. We’ll see what the Selectmen and Police Chief do at their next meeting – they’re going to be hard pressed to stick to their guns, pun intended, on this one.
Update 2: Tamworth Selectmen remove employee policy, Pro-Gun NH declares “Reason and Law Defeat Prejudice in Tamworth“