The judge didn't, either.

An update on a post from two weeks ago, in today's Monadnock Ledger-Transcript:

A District Court judge ruled Monday that the Greenville man denied a concealed weapon permit by police was in fact not "a suitable person to be licensed."

Doug Smith of Greenville petitioned the court when he was denied the permit by Temple-Greenville Police Chief James McTague. "I think I am eligible," he wrote to the court in his request for a hearing on the matter.

Jaffrey-Peterborough District Court Judge L. Phillips Runyon III decided against Smith Monday, citing a part of RSA 159:6 that a gun license can be denied if the applicant is not "a suitable person to be licensed."

"The state based its denial on the plaintiff's criminal record of convictions for simple assault (four), criminal trespass (five), and criminal mischief (two), but primarily on his currently suspended 12-month jail sentence for simple assault, which also includes a substantial amount of restitution, that has not yet been fully satisfied," Runyon wrote in his decision.

At the hearing on July 10, Temple-Greenville Prosecutor Vint Boggis spoke in support of McTague's decision to deny the permit. According to Boggis, Smith had a record including 15 criminal convictions and 13 motor vehicle convictions, including failure to pay child support and a stabbing.

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The article goes on to say that Smith actually can still purchase a firearm, just that he can't carry it concealed.

When the judge asked why he doesn't carry openly, Smith reportedly answered, "Openly carrying a firearm tends to alarm the public quite a bit."

His 15 criminal convictions might have something to do with it, too.

When we say we make it too easy for dangerous people to get guns in America, remember that weak Federal gun laws would reportedly allow even a recidivist criminal like Doug Smith to buy a firearm from a licensed gun dealer.