CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – The state Attorney General will defend a state law allowing police to revoke concealed gun permits for “just cause.”

The Attorney General is intervening in a state Supreme Court appeal by a Dover man who claims his rights were violated when that city’s police chief revoked his permit to carry concealed.

A lawyer for Edward Bleiler argues the state law is unconstitutionally vague because the term “just cause” is not defined.

Dover police Chief William Fenniman revoked Bleiler’s permit last March after Bleiler pulled out his handgun in a City Hall office and laid it on the desk of city attorney Allan Krans.

A Dover District Court judge upheld the chief’s decision to revoke Bleiler’s permit.

Bleiler has been involved in several lawsuits against the city, including one claiming Fenniman’s contract and the hiring of Krans were illegal. A Superior Court judge ruled in the city’s favor in that lawsuit last week.