NH Supreme Court sides with gun store in lawsuit
The New Hampshire Supreme Court has sided with a Derry gun shop and the Department of Safety in a lawsuit brought by two Manchester police officers who were shot in the line of duty in 2016.
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The New Hampshire Supreme Court has sided with a Derry gun shop and the Department of Safety in a lawsuit brought by two Manchester police officers who were shot in the line of duty in 2016.
A Manchester man was legally justified when he shot a man who was “screaming and had charged at him with a large branch” last year in the Rite Aid parking
Two Manchester police officers who were shot in the line of duty in 2016 asked the New Hampshire Supreme Court on Tuesday to reinstate their lawsuit against the Department of Safety and the gun shop that sold the firearm to the man who shot them.
House Bill 1178 would prevent action “to enforce, administer, or cooperate with” federal firearms laws that don’t exist in New Hampshire law.
Gov. Chris Sununu will soon need to decide whether to sign a bill to prevent New Hampshire law enforcement agencies from cooperating with federal agencies over enforcement of federal firearms laws. But exactly how the law might be applied – and how it might affect a firearms regulation package being negotiated in Washington – has been hotly debated in recent weeks.