AH.74,
You don't know me, so you don't know that I OC almost every time I go to NM (but with a different (smaller) gun as it's the only OC holster I own...need to get an OC holster for my bigger gun) so there is no "loss" for me to experience (I don't know why you'd say that). In fact, I am getting my car and my stuff ready for my annual Christmas Trip back West (to El Paso, TX, and Rio Rancho, NM) right now. Also, a few of us in the ABQ/RR area are planning to have an OC-outing-get-together. And when I lived in El Paso, I carried every time I went up to Las Cruces (actually, as soon as I crossed the state line into NM -- usually on my motorcycle, I'd stop and OC).
So you miss my point of what I was saying since I was not arguing whether it's legal or not to OC in NM...I go WAY BACK (I'm an older person) so I know that, and know parts of NM better than some of the residents there. Besides, as always, I wasn't just talking about NM, I was thinking of the bigger picture, about all states and their mish-mash of often contradictory laws and/or confusion about them. And even bigger, meaning the 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution...how long has THAT "simple" sentence been argued? [a rhetorical question, no need to respond]
NavyLT,
Yes, you have a good and very logical point there...didn't think of that. BUT again -- and as I keep saying -- I think in cases of gross misunderstanding/misinterpretation -- such as INFRINGEMENT on the RKBA as "clearly stated" in the US Constitution's 2nd Amendment -- something MORE CLEAR needs to be stated to remove all doubt...it does not need doing for EVERYTHING that is legal. Just the "unalienable rights" stuff, especially those NOT enumerated (like the RIGHT of self-defense). And to say CLEARLY what to "bear" arms means. Apparently, some states are don't understand that since they have been UNconstitutional for DECADES (like Hawaii, since it doesn't allow any of its citizens to BEAR arms outside of their homes).
Maybe the talk about changing the Constitution (IF it evers happens) could include rewriting the 2nd Amendment since the Founding Fathers could never have forseen the outright idiocy of politicians/judges (and most so-called Americans) -- and the deliberate anti-gun "disarmament" agenda of those people -- seen rampant TODAY. Things need to be spelled-out for such people.
Now please, enough already...I get everyone's point -- but it's becoming boring and tiresome. We dance now.. (SNL -- "Sprockets").