New Hampshire is actually a "shall issue if the chief feels like it" state. In most towns, it isn't usually much of a problem. But when I moved up here, the cops tried to fingerprint me for a license, despite RSA 159 specifically forbidding that. And the chief only processed my application after the statutory deadline because his idiot sergeant told him I was a cop. When I corrected that and explained that I had been a peace officer in another state years before, but no was no longer, he killed the application; didn't even send the denial letter required by law. I had to hire an attorney to go after the town. Even then, the chief played games (didn't show up for appointments, locked the station doors, falsified the license issue date...)
Could have been worse, though. My first trip to the state house some years back was prompted by a bill to change RSA 159; so that police chiefs could not only arbitrarily deny a license, but unilaterally (without any due process or recourse) declare the license applicant a terrorist.
Wow! No prints for a license. Hell, in TX, the fine land of freedom, we have to give up a ten set for a damned driver license. All because soon to be former Lt Gov Dewhurst went full bore for 'real id'.
New Hampshire is actually a "shall issue if the chief feels like it" state. In most towns, it isn't usually much of a problem. But when I moved up here, the cops tried to fingerprint me for a license, despite RSA 159 specifically forbidding that. And the chief only processed my application after the statutory deadline because his idiot sergeant told him I was a cop. When I corrected that and explained that I had been a peace officer in another state years before, but no was no longer, he killed the application; didn't even send the denial letter required by law. I had to hire an attorney to go after the town. Even then, the chief played games (didn't show up for appointments, locked the station doors, falsified the license issue date...)
ReplyDeleteCould have been worse, though. My first trip to the state house some years back was prompted by a bill to change RSA 159; so that police chiefs could not only arbitrarily deny a license, but unilaterally (without any due process or recourse) declare the license applicant a terrorist.
Wow! No prints for a license. Hell, in TX, the fine land of freedom, we have to give up a ten set for a damned driver license. All because soon to be former Lt Gov Dewhurst went full bore for 'real id'.
ReplyDeleteFokk em all