New Hampshire Gun & Ammo Laws: A 2nd Amendment Overview for NH Gun Owners

New Hampshire State Constitution

All persons have the right to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves, their families, their property and the state.

No person, who is conscientiously scrupulous about the lawfulness of bearing arms, shall be compelled thereto.

All men are born equally free and independent; therefore, all government of right originates from the people, is founded in consent, and instituted for the general good.

The people of this state have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent state; and do, and forever hereafter shall, exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right, pertaining thereto, which is not, or may not hereafter be, by them expressly delegated to the United States of America in congress assembled.

Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.

The people have a right, in an orderly and peaceable manner, to assemble and consult upon the common good, give instructions to their representatives, and to request of the legislative body, by way of petition or remonstrance, redress of the wrongs done them, and of the grievances they suffer.