New Hampshire Campus Carry Bill Killed After Senate Guts HB 1793

AmmoLand ^ | May 26, 2026 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

The New Hampshire Campus Carry Bill, HB1793, appears to have been killed by amendments and the Senate’s unwillingness to compromise with a conference committee. As reported on AmmoLand, the bill looked to have a bright future earlier this year.

HB 1793 had two major provisions. First, it removed the special power of public institutions of higher learning, mostly colleges and universities, to infringe on the exercise of Second Amendment rights in New Hampshire. Second, the Bill made clear that no special permit would be required to exercise those rights on campus. The legislature had the power to do this because the institutions of higher learning were public, not private institutions.

To enforce rights protected by the bill, individuals could sue institutions and individuals for violating those rights, as can be done with other constitutional rights. The bill had significant support. It passed the New Hampshire House on the fifth of February, 2026, 188 to 165, with 11 not voting and 30 absent. It was then sent to the New Hampshire Senate.  On May 14, 2026, the Senate passed the bill with a “poison pill” amendment, which eliminated the two provisions above, except for university professors. The House countered by not accepting the Senate amendment but calling for a conference committee to work out a compromise.

On May 21, the Senate rejected the request for a conference committee on a voice vote, effectively killing the bill.

Through long observation, I’ve learned institutions of higher learning have influence with state legislatures far beyond what would be expected from the size of their staff and student bodies. Those institutions have moved further and further to the political left in the last 50 years.

[marktwain]

Universities and other centers of "higher learning" have long been centers of political power for the Left.

Now, under President Donald Trump, their power is waning.

[redfreedom]

I’d venture to guess that the institutions of higher brainwashing started moving to the left beginning in the 60’s at places such as Berkley. And this leftism at colleges and universities spread to what we have today.

I have my own theory on this. Many draft dodgers of the Vietnam war made going to school a career until the war ended. As a result many of these became diehard leftists and with all the education became professors. Then it spread like cancer to what we have today.

I personally know of one such person whose father proudly admitted to my dad that he’d keep his kid in school for forever just to get out of the draft. And this “kid” became a professor while never having a real job outside of his university.

[marktwain]

I think the Universities started becoming bastions of Leftist power with the Progressive movement in the 1890’s. Woodrow Wilson was president of Princeton before he became President. Wilson was pretty much the high priest of Progressivism. Most of our big government ideas and institutions were promoted by Wilson.

[Wallace T.]

At this point, the Vietnam War era draft dodgers are in their mid-70s or older and retired. We are likely looking at the second generation of communists, red diaper babies, in our universities.