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HB1642 Relative to extreme risk protection orders.

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Relative to extreme risk protection orders.

Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?

5

Overall Impact Score

Concerning

Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)

5
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Your Wallet

Minimal direct financial impact on most residents.

7
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Your Community

Red flag laws are designed to prevent suicides and mass shootings by temporarily removing guns from people in crisis.

4
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Your Freedom

Creates a mechanism to temporarily restrict Second Amendment rights based on a court petition, raising due process concerns.

Status

Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Regular Calendar 206-153 02/12/2026 House Journal 4 P. 19

Voted Yes

0 R

Voted No

0 R

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

Loren Selig (D)

The Short Version

Would establish extreme risk protection orders (red flag laws) allowing courts to temporarily remove firearms from individuals deemed a danger to themselves or others. Killed 206-153, reflecting opposition to measures seen as infringing on gun rights.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ Families of individuals in mental health crisis
  • ▲ Communities seeking to prevent gun violence
  • ▲ Suicide prevention advocates

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ Gun owners concerned about due process
  • ▼ Second Amendment advocacy organizations
  • ▼ Individuals who could be subject to petitions without full criminal proceedings

Roll Call Detail (1 vote)

Every recorded floor vote on this bill, with each legislator's individual vote. Click a name to see that rep's full record.

Who actually supports this bill?

Across the 1 recorded vote on this bill — counting each legislator's net direction and treating kill motions as opposing the bill — Republicans opposed it ( 1 for , 198 against ) , and Democrats supported it ( 152 for , 8 against ) .

"Supporting" means voting for passage OR voting against a kill motion. "Opposing" is the inverse. Concurs and amendment-only votes don't count.

Inexpedient to Legislate (kill motion) 2026-02-12
Passed

YES = Kill the bill. NO = Keep the bill alive.

198R + 8D
Voted to Kill the Bill (206)
1R + 152D
Voted to Keep It Alive (153)
20
Absent
15
Not voting
Show all 394 individual votes

Voted Yea (206)

Republicans (198)
Democrats (8)

Voted Nay (153)

Republicans (1)
Democrats (152)
Absent (20)

Beth Richards (D) , Catherine Sofikitis (D) , Charles Foote (R) , Daniel Popovici-Muller (R) , David Meuse (D) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Harry Bean (R) , Jeffrey Tenczar (R) , John MacDonald (R) , Julie Gilman (D) , Mark MacKenzie (D) , Mary Murphy (R) , Michael Murphy (R) , Myles England (D) , Peter Varney (R) , Richard Brown (R) , Sean Durkin (R) , Thomas Buco (D) , Tim Mannion (R) , William Dolan (D)

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Bill statuses as of May 2026. Check LegiScan or NH General Court for the latest.

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