HB 1432 - AS INTRODUCED
2000 SESSION
HOUSE BILL 1432
AN ACT prohibiting active law enforcement personnel from obtaining a license to sell confiscated or seized firearms and ammunition.
SPONSORS: Rep. Fenton, Hills 24; Rep. Hunter, Hills 7
COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice and Public Safety
This bill prohibits towns, cities, counties, or the state from granting or renewing a license to sell confiscated or seized firearms or ammunition to active law enforcement officers and other personnel.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
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10/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand
AN ACT prohibiting active law enforcement personnel from obtaining a license to sell confiscated or seized firearms and ammunition.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; License to Sell; Prohibition; Law Enforcement Personnel. Amend RSA 159 by inserting after section 7 the following new section:
159:7-a Law Enforcement Personnel. No person employed as a law enforcement officer or as other law enforcement personnel by any town, city, county, or the state shall be granted, or have renewed, a license to sell under RSA 159:8 any confiscated or seized pistols, revolvers, or other firearms, or their ammunition.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2001.