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House Votes To Eliminate License Requirement For Concealed Guns
3 Other States Don’t Require Permits
POSTED: 10:26 am EST January 5, 2012
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CONCORD, N.H. — The House has voted to make New Hampshire the fourth state to eliminate the need for a permit to carry concealed, loaded guns anyplace where gun possession is legal.

The House voted 193-122 Thursday to make the permits optional. Gun owners could still get them so they could travel to states with reciprocal permit agreements. The bill also would increase from four to five years the length of time a permit is valid. The bill also would make it legal to transport unlicensed guns.

The House passed a similar bill last session, but the Senate postponed action on it until this year.

Exemptions in the law, such as for felons carrying weapons, would not change.

Vermont, Arizona and Alaska don’t require a permit.