In NM, if you want to carry a revolver, you have to qualify with one. If you want to carry a semi auto, you must qualify with one. If you want to carry either, you have to qualify with both. You can carry the caliber you qualify with with or any smaller caliber in that type. You cannot carry a larger caliber than you qualify with. While living there, I qualifed with a .45 caliber revolver and a .45 caliber semi auto. So I could carry that caliber or any smaller caliber in either type. I couldn't have legally (or illegally! LOL!) carried a .50 caliber. And if I qualified with one type, I could not have carried the other.

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So long ... Ken