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2024 SESSION
24-2127.0
09/08
HOUSE BILL [bill number]
AN ACT relative to department of safety firearm background checks.
SPONSORS: [sponsors]
COMMITTEE: [committee]
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ANALYSIS
This bill requires the department of safety to be responsible for conducting the required firearm background checks for federal firearm licensees through NICS for all firearm transfers.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
24-2127.0
09/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four
AN ACT relative to department of safety firearm background checks.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Criminal Background Checks; Sale of Firearms; Criminal History Record and Protective Order Check. Amend RSA 159-D:1 to read as follows:
159-D:1 Sale of Firearms; Criminal History Record and Protective Order Check. The department of safety [may] shall become the point of contact for the federal government for the purposes of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). The department of safety shall be responsible for conducting the required firearm background checks for federal firearm licensees through NICS for all firearm transfers.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.