HB 191  - AS INTRODUCED

2023 SESSION

23-0284

04/08

HOUSE BILL 191

AN ACT relative to voluntarily surrendered firearms.

SPONSORS: Rep. Horrigan, Straf. 10

COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice and Public Safety

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ANALYSIS

This bill removes the prohibition on a state agency operating a voluntary firearms "surrender and destroy" program and permits a state agency to destroy voluntarily surrendered firearms.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

23-0284

04/08

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three

AN ACT relative to voluntarily surrendered firearms.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1  Pistols and Revolvers; Voluntarily Surrendered Firearms.  Amend RSA 159:25 to read as follows:

159:25  Voluntarily Surrendered Firearms.  [No state agency shall operate a firearms "voluntary surrender and destroy" program.]  Firearms which are voluntarily surrendered to a state agency shall be sold at public auction [or], kept by the state agency for its own use, or destroyed by the state agency.  Proceeds from firearms sold at public auction by the state shall be deposited in the general fund.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.