) and timing Hogan found himself appointing four of five board members. Two of his first four (including one member of this board) were in over their heads and had no clue what the board could and indeed was legally obligated to do. For the better part of a year there were four Hogan appointees and yet the needle still didn't move. 
Observe a little harder.
Pre Hogan the board was a MSP rubber stamp for 40+ years and even met in one of the MSP barracks.
Through a stroke of luck (divine intervention
After Chairman Thomas' mid meeting stroke Bob Wilson was made chairman and Cowan was appointed and slowly the board began to realize their oversight role even though White and West still routinely voted to sustain the MSP.
After Sir Richard of Montgomery got the ax by the Senate, White realized or was told that she didn't have a clue and resigned and these two vacancies were filled by a couple of independent thinkers in Holman and Judah and it was only during this period when board reversals of MSP became the norm and not the exception, primarily for business owners looking to remove their asinine permit restrictions.
Hogan got played in a game of Executive Nomination chicken and pulled Holman and Judah's names from the hat, West resigned and Hogan waited until Sine Die to announce another set of recess appointments, Fischer, Loveless and Michel, and for the rest of the year the board rightly continued exposing permit restrictions to be the fifth amendment trap that it was and continued to draw the ire of petulant Dems.
Bob Wilson retired and the Senate voted down Fischer, Loveless and Michel leaving the board in April of last year with one member, Jacque Cowan. Apparently the Senate's vote took Team Hogan by total surprise and after he vetoed SB1000 he had to scramble to fill four vacancies and pulled four jokers from the deck.
Of course at that time it didn't matter because the board had effectively been dead since October 2018 when the MSP could appeal to the, shocker, MSP trained OAH ALJs who, once again, were an MSP rubber stamp.
The HPRB is an oversight board but it's always been political just like the appointment of the MSP Superintendent.
A Hogan appointed board has not always been the friend of the Second Amendment but did have about a two year run and that is literally the extent of Hogan's support for the RKBA. Pathetic.
