And yesterday in google news I saw a crazy, emotion-filled (and strangely fact-free) column about it in a Boston paper, but other than that you're right; it's been very low-key.

Be interesting to see if it gets signed into law.... such a small state will surely flow several inches deep in blood!

Very typical... If they say "wild wild west" it is a done deal and will pass...


EDIT HA HA HA..... The Wild Wild West has been dropped !!! Well a "Wild West" anyway!!

http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120107/OPINION/201070326/-1/NEWSMAP

Warning: clicking the link will take you to a fact-free zone.

http://articles.boston.com/2012-01-14/metro/30627931_1_gun-bills-gun-show-loophole-gun-advocates

...near the end of that... piece... disparaging the entire New Hampshire legislature.

"For this, the people of New Hampshire pay their 400 citizen-legislators - wait a minute, um. . .$100 a year. You get what you pay for, I guess."

I swear she channels Helen Lovejoy every time she writes about guns...

We've got nearly 30 years of data on CCW permit holders for some states now, and decades of information for others.

The picture is becoming clearer, or rather more undeniable, all the time:

People who bother with such permits aren't likely to be involved in crime, and the data shows that they aren't. The government spends a lot resources maintaining this bureaucracy that accomplishes nothing. A lot of people figure the resources would be better spent tracking criminals instead, and they're right.

I suspect this whole CCW thing is going to blow over in another 30 years or so. Every state will have allowed it, the data will show incontrovertibly that these people are hardly ever involved in crime, and states will decide it's a waste of time and money bothering to issue permits to them.