Pro-Gun New Hampshire

August 20, 2008: Jennifer Coffey, one of the 21 Advisors of Pro-Gun New Hampshire, and the New Hampshire State Coordinator for Second Amendment Sisters (SAS), has been appointed National Coordinator, and a Director, of SAS. She is one of the now seven officers and directors of that organization.

Pro-Gun New Hampshire has a special relationship with Second Amendment Sisters, and strongly encourages people (men and women) to join SAS. As PGNH Executive Vice President Sam Cohen writes in his personal website:

I've always maintained that the highest priority of the freedom movement is to reach out to women.

As a practical matter, women are over half the voters in this country. As a moral matter, women need Samuel Colt's "equalizers" more than anyone else. As an intellectual matter, it drives me nuts that so many women buy into anti-self-defense propaganda that essentially has them saying "rob me beat me rape me kill me, and then do the same to my children, because I could NEVER touch one of those horrible guns."

The collectivist, anti-freedom people have been shamelessly deceptive, preying on women's protective instincts to steer them into this kind of thinking. We HAVE TO reverse this process.

August 14, 2008: Attorney Evan Nappen is the Corporate Counsel of Pro-Gun New Hampshire, Inc. His new book, New Hampshire Gun, Knife, and Weapon Law (394 pages, softcover, 8-1/2 x 11), is a comprehensive but very readable guide and reference for every New Hampshire gun owner. It is now available for purchase here; the price is $29.95.

From the back cover:

Here is what some folks have to say about...

July 27, 2008:  Although the focus of Pro-Gun New Hampshire is on state legislation, we recently received the following email message from a gentleman in England:

Hi,

I am hoping you can help me with an online petition that I have set up. I'm a 32 year old man from Birmingham, England. Various websites have mentioned that Britain now has a very high crime rate, that has increased massively since the handgun ban of 1997.

I have set up a petition in an attempt to have the UK handgun ban repealed, and to allow the law abiding public to carry concealed handguns for self defence purposes, with a view to reducing our appalling crime rates.

I realise that I have a long uphill struggle ahead, but I have received over 175 signatures in just under 3 weeks, with support from all over the world. Is there any way that you can help me bring more publicity to my petition? Any signatures will help, no matter what country they are from. The petition can be found here :

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/gshandguns/index.html

I would be grateful If you provide a link to my petition on your website, and if you could get any of your readers to sign, that too would be great.

Thank you very much for your help in this matter.

Kind Regards

Graham Showell

by Evan F. Nappen Esq.

Those pesky Granite State gun owners have damaged the anti-gun spin machine of the Violence Policy Center. <snip>

[VIEW FULL ARTICLE, published in the Union Leader newspaper May 5, 2008, by clicking here:

http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Evan+F.+Nappen%3A+Pro-gun+NH+
exposes+faulty+thinking+of+anti-gun+activists&articleId=ea87483c-c115-464f-b0b2-689f97d0f8d9

April 26, 2008: The Pro-Gun New Hampshire Board of Directors and Council of Advisors have approved the posting of the following open letter from Jason Bedrick, which in turn contains open letters from Paul Mirski and from a group of 18 pro-gun state legislators. All are in response to a derogatory newsletter article from another Second Amendment group.

State Representative Jason Bedrick is a member of the Pro-Gun New Hampshire Council of Advisors. Former State Representative Paul Mirski is a co-founder and past chair of the NH House Republican Alliance.

April 26, 2008: Per the organization's bylaws, the Council of Advisors elects the president of Pro-Gun New Hampshire every two years. The first president, former State Representative Elbert "Bick" Bicknell, began serving on April 15, 2006. Bick ran unopposed for a second term, and the Council of Advisors approved his reelection to a new term as President beginning April 15, 2008.

Also, the Board of Directors unanimously approved the following changes in the Board's makeup: effective today, Evan Nappen leaves the office of Executive Vice President to assume the new position of Corporate Counsel, and Sam Cohen takes over as the new Executive Vice President. Bick, Sam, and Evan, as well as Ed Naile and Richard Aldrich, remain as Directors.

March 19, 2008: Yesterday, the NH House of Representatives voted 279 to 19 to defeat Representative Eleanor Kjellman's HB1354, the bill to ban firearms in the State House and Legislative Office Building. Today, she moved for "reconsideration" -- apparently because she inadvertently voted against her own bill yesterday. Her motion failed, 249 to 56.

The following 19 reps voted FOR the bill yesterday (note, a "Nay" vote means disagreement with the committee recommendation to kill the bill):