New Mexico

New Mexico's unlawful-carrying statute (NMSA §30-7-2) reaches only concealed loaded firearms; open carry (loaded or unloaded) has never required a license for anyone 19+ who is not otherwise prohibited. Off-limits in schools, licensed liquor establishments, and federal facilities.

New Mexico has no statute prohibiting firearms in places of worship; carry there depends on the property owner's own rules (posted signage or verbal instruction).

NM Stat. § 30-7-3 exempts only a restaurant licensed for beer-and-wine only (not full liquor) that derives at least 60% of its gross receipts from food, and even then only if not posted or verbally told otherwise. A typical modern restaurant holding a full liquor license gets no exemption at all — so the answer genuinely depends on the specific establishment's license type and revenue mix, not just "restaurant vs. bar."

New Mexico's concealed handgun license (NMSA § 29-19-1 et seq., issued by NM DPS) authorizes statewide carry. No boat/vessel/waterway restriction was found in New Mexico carry law in this research.

Secondary legal-summary sources indicate New Mexico bars carry in federal, state, county, municipal, and tribal courts without the presiding judge's consent (commonly cited to NMSA §29-19-11), but I was not able to independently pull the exact statutory text to confirm that citation word-for-word despite trying several times. No evidence surfaced of a broader statutory ban reaching ordinary government buildings like a DMV office or city hall — New Mexico's Concealed Handgun Carry Act's prohibited-place list is otherwise mostly schools, bars/gaming establishments, and posted private property.

N.M. Stat. Ann. § 30-7-2.4 prohibits firearms on the premises of any public or private post-secondary educational institution, with only a narrow exception for persons 19+ carrying inside their own private vehicle for lawful self-protection.

New Mexico has no statewide business-signage mandate found; standard opt-out/trespass model applies — carry in an ordinary business is presumptively lawful absent posted or verbal notice.

No NM statute requires advance owner consent; general criminal trespass law (N.M. Stat. 30-14-1) requires notice before presence becomes unlawful (opt-out default).

No New Mexico source I found lists airports among restricted locations (usacarry.com's list: school/preschool premises, tribal land, courthouses, buildings hosting school activities, and licensed alcohol dispensaries). No statute or second source was found addressing airports specifically.

New Mexico law (NMSA §30-7-2(A)(3)) lets anyone — no permit needed — carry a concealed, loaded handgun in a private automobile for lawful protection of person or property. This vehicle exception does not extend to buses carrying 15+ passengers or to school premises (with a narrow carve-out there for adults 19+ protecting persons/property).

No New Mexico statute prohibits firearms in hospitals.

New Mexico does not require a permit at all to carry a loaded concealed firearm in a private vehicle for lawful self-defense (NMSA §30-7-2); the state's location restrictions are narrowly focused on school premises (§30-7-2.1) and similar, with an express vehicle carve-out even there. No rest-area restriction found. Verified against the statute text directly.

N.M. Admin. Code 10.8.2.16(D): a licensee carrying concealed "shall, upon demand by a peace officer," display the license. No proactive verbal duty found; purely reactive display requirement.

NMSA 1978 § 29-19-4(A)(2): applicant must be "a resident of New Mexico or... a member of the armed forces whose permanent duty station is located in New Mexico or... a dependent of such a member." No other non-resident route exists.

N.M. Stat. §30-7-2.1(A)-(B) bans firearms on K-12 school premises (buildings, grounds, playgrounds, parking, buses); §29-19-8(B)-(C) of the Concealed Handgun Carry Act expressly states it 'does not allow a concealed handgun licensee to carry a concealed handgun on the premises of a school or preschool.' Clear, direct statutory 'no.'

No New Mexico-specific firearms-signage criminal statute is known to me, and I could not fetch NM's general criminal trespass statute (NMSA § 30-14-1) in this session to confirm its notice requirements.

N.M. Const. art. II, § 6: "No municipality or county shall regulate, in any way, an incident of the right to keep and bear arms." Confirmed by the NM Supreme Court in Baca v. N.M. Dep't of Public Safety (2002), which held local restriction of concealed carry "directly conflicts" with this constitutional preemption. Applies uniformly to Santa Fe and Albuquerque.

New Mexico's SB 5 (2024, Ch. 50), enacted as a new section of NMSA 1978 Ch. 1, Art. 20, bars possessing a firearm within 100 feet of the entrance door of a polling place (or 50 feet of a ballot drop box) on election day — a distance-based buffer rather than a whole-building ban. Exceptions are for certified LE officers, authorized security personnel, and people conducting 'lawful, non-election-related business' within the buffer — a voter going to cast a ballot would NOT qualify for that business exception, so in practice a permit holder cannot bring a firearm through that 100-ft zone to vote, even though the statute is framed as a buffer/distance restriction rather than a categorical polling-place ban.

No state-level magazine capacity restriction found, despite New Mexico's recent activity on other gun-control measures (red-flag law, waiting periods).

Extreme Risk Firearm Protection Order Act, NMSA § 40-17-1 et seq. (2020). Very narrow petitioner class: only a law enforcement officer (or, if the respondent is themselves an officer, the district attorney/attorney general) may file the petition. Family members and other 'reporting parties' may only ask law enforcement to file — they cannot petition the court themselves.

New Mexico imposes no state-level restriction on NFA items beyond the federal process. Suppressors, SBR, SBS, and pre-1986 transferable machine guns are all legal for NM residents once the federal ATF Form 1/4 process (background check, registration) is complete, including for hunting. No NM-specific permit, license, or CLEO-approval requirement beyond the federal filing was found.

No SYG statute; case law (State v. Horton, 57 N.M. 257, 261 (1953)) establishes no duty to retreat when lawfully present.

N.M. Stat. Ann. § 30-7-7.1 (2019) requires a background check for private firearm sales. Notable gap: the statute defines 'sale' as a transfer 'for a fee or other consideration,' so bona fide gifts, loans, and trust transfers fall outside the requirement, along with antiques and temporary hunting/sporting loans — a materially broader carve-out than most other UBC states' family-only exceptions.

No NMSA provision was found imposing a New Mexico-specific restriction on suppressors beyond federal law; NMSA §30-7-16 (the state's firearms/destructive-device possession offense) only reaches felons and other legally-prohibited persons, not the general public.

Same absence of a machine-gun-specific state statute — §30-7-16 restricts only prohibited persons, and multiple NFA-dealer sources agree New Mexico adds no state permit or restriction for a federally-registered machine gun.

No NMSA provision specifically restricts short-barreled rifles beyond the felon-possession rule in §30-7-16.

No NMSA provision specifically restricts short-barreled shotguns beyond the felon-possession rule in §30-7-16.

§30-7-16 (firearms/destructive devices — receipt, transportation or possession by certain persons) restricts only felons and other prohibited persons from possessing a destructive device; it does not reach ordinary civilian possession of a federally-registered DD or AOW.