(Dominick Reuter/AFP/Getty Images)New Hampshire this week passed a law allowing residents to carry a concealed handgun without a permit, joining a growing number of states that are allowing residents to carry weapons out of sight without a license. Gun rights advocates see the laws as the next frontier in Second Amendment rights. “It’s where a lot of states are moving.”Nationwide, the legislation has been contentious and has failed in states that are traditional bastions of gun rights. Idaho, Mississippi and West Virginia passed laws last year that do away with concealed-carry permits, allowing people to carry weapons without them. Jay Nixon’s (D) veto and passed a package of gun legislation that established a “stand your ground” law and allowed people to carry concealed handguns without a permit.

Source: Washington Post February 24, 2017 14:18 UTC