Region Takes Note of Anti-Gun Officials
Update: The Conway Daily Sun reports on Selectmen’s latest woes resulting from their anti-gun position. The article describes Selectman John Robert’s political career unraveling with residents who support gun rights and oppose government spending, and goes on to refer to Tamworth as “a bastion of uninhibited freedoms in the increasingly regulated Live Free or Die state” (Amen!). LiveFreeAndComply.org is cited as “a self-professed pro-liberty Tamworth site”. The Carroll County Independent also published a follow-up to their previous article below, stating the Tamworth Selectmen said they really, really will stop sitting on their hands on the firearms issue.
Update 2: In a win for liberty in Tamworth, the Selectmen beat a retreat on the firearms issue and removed their policy. Pro-Gun New Hampshire’s website declares “Reason and Law Defeat Prejudice in Tamworth“, describes Selectmen as having the enthusiasm of a “9-year-old going in for a root canal” in removing their employee policy.
The Carroll County Independent today published an article covering the melee over gun rights in Tamworth at the last two Selectmen’s meetings, specifically covering the firefighter’s initial objections, the illegality of the town policy, and the gun-toting town’s folk open-carrying firearms to the last Selectmen’s meeting to show the bureaucrats “that peaceful and responsible gun owners are not a problem”.
As well, the following e-mail from Ossipee Selectman and former NH State Representative Harry Merrow is reportedly making its way around the region:
From: Harry C. Merrow [mailto:{omitted}@myfairpoint.net]
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 12:47 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Tamworth GunsTake a look at the attached web site. What is happening in Tamworth goes against present state law (which I supported) and is clearly illegal. If the town reg. is enforced and/or expanded I will not be able to support or vote for John [Roberts] if he runs for a second term as a State Rep. unless he takes a clear stand against the town reg. on guns. Go to livefreeandcomply.org
Harry