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New Hampshire Concealed Carry Permit

New Hampshire allows permitless carry for non-prohibited adults 18+. A P/R License is still available and is what other states recognize.

Permitless carry is legal in New Hampshire

A non-prohibited adult aged 18 or older may carry a concealed handgun without a permit (since 2017). CONFIRMED FROM PRIMARY SOURCES. No permit of any kind is required to carry a concealed, loaded handgun in New Hampshire. RSA 159:6, III states verbatim: 'The availability of a license to carry a loaded pistol or revolver under this section or under any other provision of law shall not be construed to impose a prohibition on the unlicensed transport or carry of a firearm in a vehicle, or on or about one's person, whether openly or concealed, loaded or unloaded, by a resident, nonresident, or alien if that individual is not otherwise prohibited by statute from possessing a firearm in the state of New Hampshire.' RSA 159:4 (the former concealed-carry-without-license offense) was repealed outright by 2017, 1:3, effective Feb. 22, 2017. The NH State Police Permits and Licensing FAQ confirms this in its own words: 'Effective February 22, 2017, NH RSA 159:6 License to Carry was amended to no longer require a resident or non-resident to obtain a license to carry a pistol or revolver concealed. A license to carry a pistol or revolver concealed is now voluntary.' Permitless carry extends to residents, non-residents, and aliens alike. The only condition is that the person not be otherwise prohibited from possessing a firearm (see RSA 159:3 for the state felon-in-possession bar, plus federal prohibitions). Age: NH statute sets no minimum age for unlicensed carry; the practical floor of 18 comes from federal 18 U.S.C. 922(x) (handgun possession by persons under 18) and NH's age of majority, not from any NH carry statute -- see minAgeNotes. RE-VERIFIED 2026-09-15: RSA 159:6, III was read again in full today on the official General Court site and is textually unchanged. I confirmed this positively rather than by assumption: RSA 159:6 was amended twice in 2026 (2026, 325:4, eff. July 15, 2026 and 2026, 325:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2027), so I diffed today's official text against the Internet Archive capture of the same official page taken 2025-11-17 and verified that paragraphs I(a), II and III are byte-identical. The 2026 amendments touch ONLY the application form: 325:4 added a new paragraph IV directing the Department of Safety to conduct RSA 541-A rulemaking to develop a new form, and 325:2 substitutes a new paragraph I(b) on Jan. 1, 2027 (with 325:5 repealing paragraph IV the same day). Permitless carry itself is untouched. The chapter table of contents still shows RSA 159:4 as 'Repealed by 2017, 1:3, eff. Feb. 22, 2017.'

Getting the permit anyway is still worth it for most people: other states recognize the permit, not your residency, so without one you generally cannot carry across state lines.

RSA 159:6, III; RSA 159:4 repealed by 2017, 1:3, eff. Feb. 22, 2017 (SB 12)

There are 11 details on this page we could not confirm from a primary source. Read what they are before relying on this.

Requirements at a glance

Permit name Pistol/Revolver License (statutory title: "License to Carry")
Issuing authority Residents: the selectmen of the town, the mayor or chief of police of the city (or a full-time police officer they designate), or the county sheriff for residents of unincorporated places / towns with no police chief. Non-residents: the Director of the NH Division of State Police (NH State Police Permits and Licensing Unit, 33 Hazen Drive, Concord, NH 03305).
System shall-issue
Minimum age 18 — IMPORTANT CAVEAT: New Hampshire statute sets NO explicit minimum age for the Pistol/Revolver License. RSA 159:6 contains no age provision whatsoever, and the administrative rules (Saf-C 2100) do not add one. I read both official application forms in full -- DSSP 85 (resident) and DSSP 260 (non-resident) -- and neither asks the applicant to attest to any minimum age; they collect date of birth only as identifying information. The figure 18 is therefore a derived floor, not a quoted NH statutory number: it reflects federal 18 U.S.C. 922(x), which generally bars handgun possession by persons under 18, together with NH's age of majority of 18. Separately, RSA 159:12 makes it a misdemeanor to sell, barter, hire, lend or give a pistol or revolver to a minor (with exceptions for parents/grandparents/guardians, supervised firearms training, accompanied hunting, and supervised shooting events) -- but that provision penalizes the transferor, not possession by the minor, and it is not a carry-age rule. Note also that federal law bars licensed dealers from selling a handgun to anyone under 21, so 21 is the practical floor for buying a handgun from an FFL. Finally, the NH State Police reciprocity notice flags that several other states will only honor a NH license if the holder is 21 or older (Arizona, Colorado, Florida, West Virginia are asterisked on NH's own page). STRENGTHENED 2026-09-15: the baseline's 'no NH minimum age' finding is no longer a partial read. Today I (a) fetched every one of the 35 sections of RSA chapter 159 individually and grep'd each for 'years of age', 'minimum age', '18 years', '21 years', 'age of majority' and 'under the age', and (b) ran the official General Court RSA full-text search. Across the whole chapter the ONLY age provisions are RSA 159:22 (selling an electronic defense weapon to a person under 18) and RSA 159:24 (transferring a martial arts weapon to a person under 18 without parental consent); neither concerns pistol/revolver carry or licensing. A statewide full-text search for 'minimum age' returns 16 sections, none in Title XII. Saf-C 2100 contains zero occurrences of the word 'age'. So the absence of a New Hampshire carry-age rule is now positively established, and the figure 18 remains a derived federal/age-of-majority floor, not a New Hampshire number.
Training required No
State fee $10 initial / $10 renewal — the state's own charge, not the total
Valid for 5 years
Processing time Statutory deadline is 14 days: RSA 159:6, I(b) provides 'The license shall be issued within 14 days after application, and, if such application is denied, the reason for such denial shall be stated in writing.' NOTE A DISCREPANCY: the NH State Police Permits and Licensing FAQ states that applications submitted to the Permits and Licensing Unit (i.e. non-resident applications) 'are processed within 30 days of receipt.' The 14-day figure is the binding statutory deadline; the 30-day figure is the State Police's own stated administrative practice for non-resident applications. RSA 159:6-e gives an aggrieved applicant a right to petition superior court for injunctive relief against a licensing entity that violates the licensing sections, and such petitions get calendar priority. RE-VERIFIED 2026-09-15: both figures were read again today and the discrepancy persists verbatim -- RSA 159:6, I(b) still says 'The license shall be issued within 14 days after application' (in both the current and the Jan. 1, 2027 version), and the NH State Police Permits and Licensing FAQ still says 'Applications are processed within 30 days of receipt.'
Fingerprints Not required
Non-resident permit Available

What it actually costs

The state fee is rarely the whole bill. Fingerprinting is usually charged by a private vendor, training is bought from an instructor, and several states add photographs, notarisation or other requirements on top.

State fee $10
Non-resident license $100 — residents pay $10, non-residents $100
Realistic total $10

RSA 159:6, I(b) sets a single $10 fee for residents that applies to both original and renewal applications — there is no separate renewal rate. No training and no fingerprints are required. Because New Hampshire requires no license to carry at all, the $10 buys nothing but the document's out-of-state reciprocity value, which is the only reason to hold one.

RSA 159:6, I(b): 'The fee for licenses issued to residents of the state shall be $10, which fee shall be for the use of the town or city granting said licenses; the fee for licenses granted to out-of-state residents shall be $100, which fee shall be for the use of the state.' So: resident $10, non-resident $100 (DSSP 260 instructions confirm '$100.00 (Five Year Permit)'). The statute sets a single fee that applies to both original and renewal applications -- it does not create a separate discounted renewal rate, so renewal is $10 for residents and $100 for non-residents. Ancillary non-resident fees per the NH State Police FAQ: $3.00 for a duplicate license, and $3.00 if you want a reissued license reflecting an address change. Because carry requires no license at all in NH, these fees are entirely optional and are effectively paid only for the license's out-of-state reciprocity value. RE-VERIFIED 2026-09-15: the $10 resident / $100 non-resident sentence of RSA 159:6, I(b) was read again verbatim today and is identical in BOTH the currently-effective paragraph I(b) and the version that takes effect Jan. 1, 2027, so the fees are not scheduled to change. Saf-C 2102.01 independently confirms the non-resident figure: a non-resident applicant shall 'Pay the $100 statutory fee pursuant to RSA 159:6, I(b).' The $3.00 duplicate-license and $3.00 address-change fees were re-read on the NH State Police FAQ today and are unchanged.

How to apply

  1. FIRST, UNDERSTAND THAT YOU MAY NOT NEED TO DO ANY OF THIS. New Hampshire requires no license to carry. RSA 159:6, III preserves 'the unlicensed transport or carry of a firearm in a vehicle, or on or about one's person, whether openly or concealed, loaded or unloaded, by a resident, nonresident, or alien if that individual is not otherwise prohibited by statute from possessing a firearm.' The NH State Police FAQ puts it plainly: 'A license to carry a pistol or revolver concealed is now voluntary.' The only practical reason to apply is that other states may require a NH license before they will honour your carry rights under a reciprocity agreement.
  2. Confirm you are not prohibited from possessing a firearm under New Hampshire or federal law - this is the sole substantive disqualifier in the licensing statute (RSA 159:6, I(a); Saf-C 2103.01). Note that NH statute sets NO minimum age for this license: RSA 159:6 contains no age provision, Saf-C 2100 never uses the word 'age', and neither application form asks you to attest to one.
  3. Identify your issuing authority. RESIDENTS apply locally, not to the State Police: to the selectmen of your town, the mayor or chief of police of your city, or a full-time police officer designated by them; to the county sheriff if you live in an unincorporated place; or to the county sheriff if the selectmen of a town with no police chief have designated the sheriff (RSA 159:6, I(a)). The NH State Police page is explicit: 'Pistol and Revolver licenses are only issued to Non-Residents by the New Hampshire State Police. Please contact your local policing agency for a Resident Pistol/Revolver License.' NON-RESIDENTS apply to the director of state police.
  4. Get the correct form. RESIDENTS use form DSSP 85, 'Resident Pistol/Revolver License' (current version REV. 03/17), downloadable from the NH State Police Pistol and Revolver Licensing page - though you should still contact your local police department, since it is the body that receives and decides your application. NON-RESIDENTS use form DSSP 260, 'Non-Resident Pistol/Revolver License' (REV. 03/17), the version Saf-C 2102.01(a) makes operative. RSA 159:6, I(b) caps what any form may ask and forbids local variants: 'No other forms shall be used by officials of cities and towns.'
  5. Complete the form in full - both versions warn that 'An incomplete application will be returned.' You supply name, mailing and legal address, date of birth (as identifying information only, not an age attestation), place of birth, driver's license number, physical description, and an Original/Renewal checkbox. Social security number and telephone number are marked optional on the form.
  6. Answer the five yes/no screening questions, and give complete details for any 'yes': whether you have ever had a license to carry denied in this or any other state; been convicted of a felony that has not been annulled; are an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance; have been adjudicated a mental defective by a court or committed by a court to a mental institution; or have been convicted in any court of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence. On DSSP 260, Saf-C 2102.02(a) requires any affirmative answer to be clarified on the reverse of the form.
  7. State your reason for applying, in answer to 'For what reason(s) do you make application to carry a pistol in New Hampshire?' This is not a meaningful hurdle: RSA 159:6, I(a) declares that 'Hunting, target shooting, or self-defense shall be considered a proper purpose', which is why New Hampshire is shall-issue rather than may-issue. The license is also 'valid for all allowable purposes regardless of the purpose for which it was originally issued.'
  8. Supply the additional details the CURRENTLY POSTED forms request - your occupation, present employer and employer's address, and the names and complete mailing addresses of three references - then sign the 'Signature, Certification, and Release of Information' block. The NH State Police FAQ confirms references are needed every time, including renewals: 'Yes. The application needs to be completed in its entirety at each time of application. Incomplete applications will be returned.' TREAT THIS STEP AS TEMPORARY: effective 2027-01-01, RSA 159:6, I(b) as amended by 2026 ch. 325 (HB1365, signed 07/15/2026) provides that the form 'shall not request or require disclosure of the applicant's occupation, present employer, employer's address, or personal references', and shall contain no broad consent or release language. A replacement form is being developed under the rulemaking directive added as RSA 159:6, IV on 2026-07-15, so re-check the posted form before applying on or after 2027-01-01.
  9. Do NOT supply a photograph or fingerprints, and do not let an issuing authority demand them. RSA 159:6, II: 'No photograph or fingerprint shall be required or used as a basis to grant, deny, or renew a license to carry for a resident or nonresident, unless requested by the applicant.' There is likewise no training, safety-course, competency or live-fire requirement anywhere in RSA 159:6 or Saf-C 2100.
  10. Pay the fee - the same amount for an original or a renewal, as RSA 159:6, I(b) draws no distinction. RESIDENTS pay $10, which goes to the town or city granting the license. NON-RESIDENTS pay $100 to the state; Saf-C 2102.01(b) directs the applicant to 'Pay the $100 statutory fee pursuant to RSA 159:6, I(b).' Both figures are unchanged in the version of the statute that takes effect 2027-01-01.
  11. Submit the application. RESIDENTS file with the local issuing authority identified in step 3. NON-RESIDENTS mail the completed DSSP 260 to: Department of Safety, Division of State Police, Permits and Licensing Unit, 33 Hazen Drive, Concord, NH 03305.
  12. Await the decision, and know which clock applies. RSA 159:6, I(b) commands that 'The license shall be issued within 14 days after application', and that a denial must state the reason in writing, with the original delivered to you and a copy kept on file. The NH State Police FAQ states a different figure for applications to its own unit - 'Applications are processed within 30 days of receipt' - so expect roughly 30 days on the non-resident route even though 14 days is the statutory deadline.
  13. If you are denied, suspended or revoked, you have two routes. Under RSA 159:6-c you may petition the district or municipal court where you reside within 30 days; the court must hold a hearing within 14 days, the burden is on the ISSUING AUTHORITY to show by clear and convincing proof that its action was justified, and the court must decide within 14 days of the hearing. Separately, RSA 159:6-e lets anyone aggrieved by a licensing violation petition the superior court for injunctive relief with priority on the court calendar, and RSA 159:6-f allows an award of attorney's fees and costs - personally against a bad-faith official in some cases.
  14. Once issued, note the expiry rule, which can run longer than five years. RSA 159:6, I(a) sets a term of 'not less than 5 years from the date of issue', and Saf-C 2102.03(a) fixes expiration at the LATER of five years from issue or 'The last day of the month of the fifth anniversary of the license holder's date of birth following the date of issuance.' RSA 159:6, I(b) directs that renewal 'shall take place within the month of the fifth anniversary of the license holder's date of birth following the date of issuance.'
  15. Keep the record current. A resident who moves out of the community that issued the license must notify the issuing authority in writing at the new place of residence that he or she holds a current license; the license stays in effect until it expires (RSA 159:6-b, II). A non-resident license holder can get a duplicate, or a reissued license showing a new address, by writing to the Permits and Licensing Unit at the Concord address with a $3.00 fee payable to 'State of New Hampshire - Treasurer'. Be aware that under Saf-C 2104.02(c) a non-resident license is revoked if the holder becomes a New Hampshire resident - at that point you apply locally instead.
  16. Finally, do not read the license as a travel document. The NH State Police publish only an outbound list of the states that have said they will recognize NEW HAMPSHIRE RESIDENT licenses, and they disclaim it: 'The Department of Safety does not make any warranty, express or implied, concerning the accuracy of the information.' A NH NON-RESIDENT license 'is only valid within the State of New Hampshire or within a state that recognizes a New Hampshire non-resident pistol/revolver license', so it travels less well than the published list suggests. Contact each destination state directly before carrying there; some honour a NH license only if you are 21 or older.

Apply on the official New Hampshire site

What disqualifies you

Where to get the required training

New Hampshire does not publish a central list of certified instructors. Confirm directly with Residents: the selectmen of the town, the mayor or chief of police of the city (or a full-time police officer they designate), or the county sheriff for residents of unincorporated places / towns with no police chief. Non-residents: the Director of the NH Division of State Police (NH State Police Permits and Licensing Unit, 33 Hazen Drive, Concord, NH 03305). that a course will be accepted before you pay for it.

Training providers in New Hampshire

Businesses in our directory that offer firearms training. These are not state-verified as certified permit instructors — check against the official list above, or ask the provider directly.

All firearms training in New Hampshire →

Reciprocity

Carrying into New Hampshire

New Hampshire publishes no recognition list, because it does not need one: a non-prohibited adult may carry here without any permit, visitor or resident. Your home-state permit is neither required nor relevant while you are in New Hampshire.

30 jurisdictions honor a New Hampshire permit

Derived from what each of those states officially publishes.

Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Wyoming

Official New Hampshire reciprocity page Full reciprocity matrix →

Building your own in New Hampshire

Build for personal use
Allowed
Serial number required
No

New Hampshire law is SILENT on the personal manufacture of firearms, so it is lawful by default for a person not otherwise prohibited from possessing a firearm. I verified this by pulling the complete section list of RSA chapter 159 and the chapter list of Title XII: there is no section anywhere addressing firearm manufacture, home-built or 'ghost' guns, unfinished frames or receivers, or a serialization/registration mandate. Title XII's firearm chapters are 159 (Pistols and Revolvers), 159-A (Purchase of Shotguns and Rifles), 159-B (Shooting Ranges), 159-C (Sale of Handguns; Criminal Record Check), 159-D (Criminal Background Checks), 159-E (Presidential Executive Orders and Statutory Law Relating to the Right to Keep and Bear Arms), and 159-F (Firearm Purchaser's Privacy) -- none regulates manufacture. NO STATE SERIAL NUMBER OR REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED on a self-made firearm; New Hampshire operates no firearm registry at all. Note carefully what RSA 159:13 (Changing Marks) does and does not do: it prohibits changing, altering, removing or obliterating 'the name of the maker, model, manufacturer's number or other mark of identification on any pistol or revolver' (misdemeanor, with possession of such a firearm being presumptive evidence the possessor did it). That is a defacement offense applying to marks that already exist on a manufactured firearm -- it does not impose an affirmative duty to serialize a firearm you build yourself, which by definition never bore a manufacturer's mark. RSA 159:26 preempts political subdivisions from regulating firearms, firearms components, or firearms supplies, so no NH city or town may impose its own home-manufacture or serialization rule. FEDERAL LAW STILL GOVERNS INDEPENDENTLY and is the real constraint: personal manufacture for one's own use by a non-prohibited person is federally permitted without a license or serial number, but the Undetectable Firearms Act, the National Firearms Act (short-barreled and automatic weapons), and the prohibition on manufacturing for sale/distribution without an FFL all continue to apply, as does ATF Final Rule 2021R-05F where a commercial transaction is involved. NEGATIVE FINDING NOW SEARCHED, NOT JUST INFERRED (2026-09-15): the baseline could not reach the General Court's full-text search. It is reachable today and I ran it against the entire New Hampshire RSA corpus, with positive controls to prove the harness worked ('serial number' returns 22 sections, 'pistol' returns 33). Results: 'unfinished frame' 0 hits, 'frame or receiver' 0 hits, 'receiver blank' 0 hits, 'ghost gun' 0 hits, 'untraceable' 0 hits, '3d printed' 0 hits, 'firearm manufacture' 0 hits, 'manufacture of firearms' 0 hits. The broad term 'manufacture' returns 197 sections, of which the only Title XII hits are RSA 153:14 (fire safety), 158:23 (explosives), 162-B:2 and 162-H:2 -- none in chapter 159 or 159-A through 159-F. Of the 22 'serial number' hits the only firearm-adjacent one is RSA 637:7-a, which I then read in full: it is a defacement-and-possession offense covering property whose 'identifying number or numbers or any other identifying mark ... have been removed, defaced, altered, changed, destroyed, obliterated or mutilated', and it expressly does not reach property 'which does not have identifying numbers or marks'. It therefore imposes no duty to serialise a firearm you build yourself, which never bore a mark to remove. So New Hampshire's silence on personal firearm manufacture is now an audited negative rather than an assumed one.

No NH statute on point; permitted by absence of prohibition. Relevant surrounding provisions: RSA 159 (Pistols and Revolvers) generally; RSA 159:13 (Changing Marks); RSA 159:26 (state preemption).

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Statutes

What we could not confirm

  • MINIMUM AGE IS STILL NOT SET BY NEW HAMPSHIRE LAW, and 18 remains a derived figure rather than a quoted one. This is now a well-audited negative rather than a guess: on 2026-09-15 I fetched all 35 sections of RSA chapter 159 and searched each for age language, and ran the statewide RSA full-text search. The only age provisions anywhere in the chapter are RSA 159:22 (electronic defense weapons) and RSA 159:24 (martial arts weapons), neither of which is a carry or licensing rule, and Saf-C 2100 contains no occurrence of the word 'age'. Neither DSSP 85 nor DSSP 260 asks the applicant to attest to a minimum age. The value 18 is therefore imported from federal 18 U.S.C. 922(x) and New Hampshire's age of majority. Anyone near the age boundary should contact the issuing town or city, or the State Police for a non-resident license, before carrying.
  • PROCESSING TIME CONFLICT BETWEEN TWO OFFICIAL SOURCES IS STILL UNRESOLVED. RSA 159:6, I(b) commands issuance 'within 14 days after application' (unchanged in both the current text and the version effective Jan. 1, 2027), while the NH State Police Permits and Licensing FAQ says applications to that unit 'are processed within 30 days of receipt.' I re-read both today and found no official reconciliation. The most likely reading is that the 14-day statutory deadline binds and the 30-day figure describes actual State Police practice for non-resident applications, but no primary source addresses the discrepancy head-on.
  • RENEWAL FEE IS STILL INFERRED, NOT SEPARATELY STATED. RSA 159:6 sets one fee ($10 resident / $100 non-resident) without distinguishing original from renewal applications, and both forms use a single 'Original / Renewal' checkbox with no separate fee schedule. I confirmed today that the fee sentence is identical in the post-2027 version of the statute, so nothing is scheduled to change, but I found no official source quoting a distinct renewal price and have carried the same amount forward.
  • A STATUTORY CHANGE TO THE APPLICATION FORM IS PENDING AND WILL LAND AFTER THIS RECORD'S VERIFICATION DATE. RSA 159:6 was amended by 2026, 325 (signed July 15, 2026). Effective Jan. 1, 2027 the new paragraph I(b) bars the application form from requesting the applicant's occupation, present employer, employer's address or personal references, and bars broad consent/release language; paragraph IV, added July 15, 2026 to direct Department of Safety rulemaking for a replacement form, is repealed the same day. The DSSP 85 and DSSP 260 PDFs currently posted still carry all of those questions, so the forms linked from this record are expected to be superseded around Jan. 1, 2027 and the 'three references' requirement should drop out. No fee, term, age, training, fingerprint or permitless-carry provision is affected. Re-check the two form URLs after Jan. 1, 2027.
  • DSSP 260's SECOND PAGE (the non-resident application instructions) COULD NOT BE READ TODAY. Both PDFs were fetched live from the official host this time (HTTP 200, no redirect, 105,958 and 110,242 bytes), and DSSP 85 (one page) and page 1 of DSSP 260 were read on screen. Chrome's PDF viewer would not scroll to DSSP 260 page 2 and programmatic text extraction from the PDF streams failed, so the baseline's quotation of '$100.00 (Five Year Permit)' from the instructions page is not re-confirmed. Both facts in it are independently established from primary sources read today -- RSA 159:6, I(b) sets the $100 non-resident fee and the not-less-than-five-year term, and Saf-C 2102.01 repeats the $100 figure -- so the risk here is presentational, not substantive.
  • VALIDITY PERIOD IS A FLOOR, NOT A FIXED TERM, and 5 is a nominal figure. Confirmed verbatim again today: RSA 159:6, I(a) says 'not less than 5 years from the date of issue', and Saf-C 2102.03(a) sets expiration at the LATER of '(1) Five years from the date of issue' or '(2) The last day of the month of the fifth anniversary of the license holder's date of birth following the date of issuance.' Actual validity can therefore exceed five years by up to roughly a year depending on the holder's birth date.
  • HOME MANUFACTURE IS STILL ESTABLISHED BY ABSENCE OF PROHIBITION rather than by an affirmative permissive statute, so it remains a negative finding -- but it is now a searched one. The General Court's full-text search, which the baseline could not reach, ran today against the whole RSA corpus with working positive controls, and 'unfinished frame', 'frame or receiver', 'receiver blank', 'ghost gun', 'untraceable', '3d printed', 'firearm manufacture' and 'manufacture of firearms' all return zero sections; 'manufacture' returns no hits in chapter 159 or 159-A through 159-F. The residual risk is now narrow: a provision using wording none of my eight phrasings captured cannot be absolutely excluded. Federal law (Undetectable Firearms Act, NFA, the bar on manufacturing for sale without an FFL, and ATF Final Rule 2021R-05F where a commercial transaction is involved) continues to govern independently and is the real constraint.
  • RECIPROCITY 'honors' IS DELIBERATELY EMPTY AND MUST NOT BE RENDERED AS 'New Hampshire honors no states.' New Hampshire publishes no inbound recognition list because permitless carry under RSA 159:6, III -- which by its terms covers 'a resident, nonresident, or alien' -- makes any visitor's permit legally unnecessary. If your renderer displays honors as a count or a map layer, this state needs special-case handling driven by permitlessCarry.allowed rather than by the honors array.
  • NO SECOND OFFICIAL VOICE ON CARRY LAW EXISTS TO CROSS-CHECK THE STATE POLICE. I reached the NH Department of Justice site in a browser today (it also returns 403 to non-browser clients) and its search returned no firearms carry-law guidance; NH DOJ appears to publish none. The Attorney General's only statutory firearms publication duty, under RSA 159:8-a, is an annual summary filed with the Secretary of State of other states' laws on the PURCHASE of pistols and revolvers -- not carry guidance. The statutory text of RSA 159:6, III is unambiguous on the permitless-carry point, so this does not affect the critical fields, but the State Police characterisation remains uncorroborated by a second agency.
  • THE NH STATE POLICE RECIPROCITY PAGE DISCLAIMS ITS OWN ACCURACY: 'The Department of Safety does not make any warranty, express or implied, concerning the accuracy of the information.' It also warns that a NH NON-RESIDENT license 'is only valid within the State of New Hampshire or within a state that recognizes a New Hampshire non-resident pistol/revolver license', while the published list is expressly about RESIDENT licenses -- so a non-resident NH license carries less recognition than the list implies. Even the outbound list read live today carries that official caveat and should not be treated as authoritative for travel planning.
  • WHETHER A NH-ISSUED LICENSE IS OBTAINABLE IN PRACTICE BY A PERSON UNDER 21 VARIES BY ISSUING TOWN OR CITY, since residents apply locally to selectmen or a police chief rather than to a single statewide agency. I found no statewide data on local practice. Note separately that NH's own reciprocity page asterisks Arizona, Colorado, Florida and West Virginia as honouring a NH license only for holders 21 or older.

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