Is New Hampshire gun friendly?

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I am trying to find a way to get out of Oregon. For more than a few reasons I dont like it here. There is a likely chance I can go to upstate New Hampshire soon. I've heard good things about New Hampshire, but didnt know if anyone on here lives or has lived there that could give me a heads up on the gun rules there. If you can shoot just about anywhere. If AZ would of had a climate I could handle, I would of stayed there. Really good gun state. I shot all over the place. I refuse to pay to shoot, so I need free places to go. Im not so worried about my right to carry, I'm covered as far as that goes, but I'm worried about my wifes ability to carry. We were going to go to Illinois but I didnt want to sense she couldnt carry and we plan to have children soon I want them to be safe. Thanks for anyone that can help.
 
that website is very good thank you sir. Makes me a bit sick to know she will have to pay to carry a weapon, but I guess thats better than not being able to carry it. I also even found some stuff that even though its not completely up to date on that site about my right to carry. Few things have changed as far as LEOSA and IL go. Thanks again though, appreciate it. Hopefully someone from NH will chime in and let me know if you can shoot just about anywhere on gov land or not. One thing awesome about AZ was I just drove out, found a desert road and started blasting. I had local PD's come out and they ended up just drooling over my stuff, not a problem at all with them fellas.
 
You can move to Kentucky and open carry without a permit. Carry in your car (open, glove compartment, factory installed compartment with no permit). There are free public ranges in Kentucky, (we were just talking about this last night). A friend mentioned one nearby in Grant County, in Crittenden .

Besides, land is plentiful here...you can buy land in the country and hunt and shoot for next to nothing on your own land.
 
I'm kind of restricted to some places due to my line of work, I have considered KY, we have several places there I could work. I have considered Big Sandy, I dont know if thats the name of the town or not. I'm really interested in NH. There is a lot of history I have not seen up there. I've been thru KY lots of times, shot a lot of turkey down there. I'll always be a Hoosier at heart. Thats where I was born and raised, I will hopefully get back there before my career is over, but for the next 10 years or so I hope to see a few more of this beautiful country, I'm just trying to make sure I can enjoy my shooting hobbies and the wifey will be allowed to carry. So far I've gathered that NH wont be that bad. I have seen that you are allowed to open carry, which I like to do more often than conceal. More comfortable for me.
 
avoid mass. ....you need a license just to buy ammo there.... NY, NJ, CT are VERY restricitve too...

Except for Vermont, the north east is not particularily friendly..... excluding california, I would say the northeast states are the least freindly in the country.....
 
I live in New Hampshire. It is as respectful of your second amendment rights as anywhere you'll find (except Vermont, but more on that in a moment). There is no gun licensing here. There is no gun registration here. There is open carry, although it's rarely implemented. New Hampshire is a shall issue state. That means that that unless you are legally prohibited from carrying a firearm, the state must issue. There is no subjectivity allowed on the part of the issuing entity. A carry license goes for ten dollars and must be issued within 14 days. It usually takes a few days. There are a few towns that have not gotten the message that we have a Constitution in this country, but they are few and far between and are currently standing with one foot on a lawsuit and the other on a banana peel; the state is overwhelmingly gun friendly. Now for Vermont. Vermont is run by left wing hippies and yet it is arguably the most gun friendly (and the safest) place in America. There is no gun registration or licensing that I'm aware of and there is no license for open carry. It's called 'Vermont carry' and it basically means that the Constitution is your permit. Period. Unfortunately, what the earlier poster said about its economy is true. Back to NH. We have no sales tax. No income tax. And a lower cost of living. We have not been hit as hard as other places, economically. Our banks are sound; every one of them scores
below 20 on the Texas ratio. There is work here. The down side is that the winters are long and cold and the deer hunting is marginal.
 
New Hampshire is very gun friendly. Anything the the Fed government lets you own, you can own in NH without any more restrictions. A permit is required to carry a concealed weapon but not open. Open Carry is uncommon in the south where I am but I haven't had any ill effects when open carrying. Only state that I would leave NH for is Arizona.

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New Hampshire was voted the safest state in the country a year or two ago. May have changed recently.
 
Just my opinion, but go to texas. It's like a whole nuther country... That's what they advertise anyway.

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Just have to throw out a [somewhat] relevant link here:
http://freestateproject.org/

The whole idea is to get freedom-loving people to move to NH to even further tip the scales toward freedom in the polls. One of the biggest selling points is RKBA.
I personally have yet to make my escape from NY, but its coming at some point...
 
Well guys I appreciate it, looks like I'll be leaving my paperwork in for NH. Sucks the deer hunting isnt that great, but I go to my home Hoosier state to bow hunt every year anyways. I'm only looking to stay in NH for 3 years or less. So atleast I can see the New England area a little. I've been lucky in my career, got to start in my home Hoosier state, moved to the Deserts of AZ, then to the coast of Cali, to the rain forests of Oregon, and now hopefully to New England. I dont know if I'll ever get to Texas. I dont know if I want to deal with the border states again. I just hope I can shoot, and get cheap lobster in NH:)
 
the deer hunting is marginal.
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How so? I'm in southern Maine, which might as well be New Hampshire - I wouldn't call Maine's or New Hampshire's deer hunting marginal...?

Maine is just as friendly as NH, we're like brothers, and Mass is our retarded cousin.
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:D I don't know, I wouldn't admit any relation to Massachusetts...
 
It's called 'Vermont carry' and it basically means that the Constitution is your permit.
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"The Constitution" that keeps our right to bear arms like no other state, is the Vermont State Constitution...This document predates the COTUS by almost a decade (1777), and the ratified BOR by more than 13 years...

Current Article 16 (Originally Article 15) of the VT State Constitution:

That the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of the themselves and the State; and, as standing armies, in the time of peace, are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; and that the military should be kept under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.
 
Except for Vermont, the north east is not particularily friendly..... excluding california, I would say the northeast states are the least freindly in the country
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VT, NH, ME, and PA (if you still consider that being in the northeast, which I would) are all extremely "gun friendly." The northeast gets a bad reputation because of MA, NY, and NJ, (maybe CT, too) but you can't paint with a broad brush like that.

I think NH maybe even edges out PA for the crown of having the least restrictions on places you can carry concealed.
 
Mass is just as liberal as Oregon. Don't let Romney being titled a Republican fool you. They have some of the strictest gun laws in the entire country.

Blows my mind you'd pick a place that is similar and even worse in many aspects than the place you're leaving.
 
Mass is just as liberal as Oregon. Don't let Romney being titled a Republican fool you. They have some of the strictest gun laws in the entire country.

Blows my mind you'd pick a place that is similar and even worse in many aspects than the place you're leaving.
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He's not moving to MA. He's moving to NH. They're two different states, these days.
 
@bamalmiggty I am looking at New Hampshire, don't know where you got mass from. Like I said there are many reasons I want out of Oregon. Most of those reasons are not gun related. Its the people here, the housing prices, lack of places to shoot, weather, taxes, amount of illegal immigrants, politics, hunting is horrible, fishing is confusing legally, there are many more. New Hampshire seams a lot more free than Oregon.
 
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