NM: Restaurant carry bill moving forward

[seamusTX]

Bills that would allow concealed-carry license holders to carry legally in restaurants that serve alcohol have moved toward passage in the House and Senate:

http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=4570" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

At present, all places where alcohol is sold for consumption on-premises are off-limits. If signed into law, these bills would restore an aspect of the right to carry that most other states have had for decades.

- Jim

[bdickens]

Isn't New Mexico one of those fabulous open-carry states?

[Liberty]

One can open carry there pretty easily I wouldn't do it in Albuquerque or Santa Fe. The New Mexico CHL Laws are still undergoing a lot of tweaking

[KD5NRH]

Isn't New Mexico one of those fabulous open-carry states?

Yup, and going out to smoke with a PT-99 carried openly really quiets down the gangbanger wanna-bes on your end of the motel, too.

[jack010203]

mmmmmmm open carry
hopefully someday down here

[bdickens]

You both missed the point.

New Mexico is one of those wonderful open-carry meccas that Texas needs to be like, right? But I can't carry in a restaraunt there. But here in backwards, repressive, anti-gun Texas I can although the gun has to be concealed.

Which is better?

[seamusTX]

Nearly all states have some sort of illogical restrictions. I think New Hampshire is the only state that allows licensed concealed carry in bars. You just have to take your pick or get the law changed.

BTW, AFAICT, this bill did not get to the floor of the Arizona House before the session ended.

- Jim

[Captain Matt]

You both missed the point.

The point that a legislator in NM proposed a bill to fix the problem?

[seamusTX]

I think his point was that open carry isn't worth much if the state puts a lot of places off-limits.

But here's a great idea: Let's not have another flame war about open carry. Everything that can be said has been said, multiple times.

- Jim

[nitrogen]

Arizona had the same silly restriction when I lived there, too. Hopefulyl they get it fixed, too, if they havn't already.

And yeah, Open Carry in NM is much more tolerated, even in ABQ than in PHX or Tucson, at least when I was last there a few years ago. I have to say I really enjoy open carry, but not enough to threaten what we already have.

Getting concealed carry fixed I think is the right priority first; then tilt after windmills :)

[Captain Matt]

I think it's great when legislators try to remove restrictions on civil rights. I cheer the people who got this moving in NM even it failed. I jeer the schadenfreude.

[DoubleJ]

Arizona had the same silly restriction when I lived there, too. Hopefulyl they get it fixed, too, if they havn't already.

They have not....

[frazzled]

You both missed the point.

New Mexico is one of those wonderful open-carry meccas that Texas needs to be like, right? But I can't carry in a restaraunt there. But here in backwards, repressive, anti-gun Texas I can although the gun has to be concealed.

Which is better?

Good point.