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NH: How Seacoast legislators voted on allowing guns in N.H. House
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The Republican-controlled N.H. House of Representatives voted on Jan. 7 to allow guns on the floor and in the visitors' gallery of the House. This misguided vote was not a continuation of a long-standing policy. According to Rep. Steve Shurtleff, "Deadly weapons were first prohibited in the House back in 1971 after a fellow lawmaker threatened (to shoot) House Speaker Marshall Cobleigh. Aside from the two-year period that (Republican) Speaker Bill O'Brien wielded the gavel, the policy (not to allow guns in the House) has remained in place since." |
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Millwright66
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| Might be revealing to research just how many of the "nay voters" are new to NH. I lived in NH for a time in the late Seventies and found carrying a sidearm wasn't even a cause for comment, ( except for tourists and "new complaints" immigrating - even back then - from "taxachuttets . |
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