You are in New Mexico, you know about the street crime in Albuquerque of course. I worked there as an OSI agent and travel the states dozens and dozens of times, love your state. Have gone to Whittington NRA center as many as 3 trips per year.
That said, just traveling and having stayed in motels downtown, Central Street on I 40, have had hookers try to wake me up and force their way in. Later had pimps threaten me, actually had to show a double barrel and Glock once to shut the guy down. When you as a traveler get woken up in the middle of the night by banging on the door and death threats, that is not conducive to good sleep.
And we stopped a couple dozen times in our RV at that roadside park on I 40, the one where the couple had their camper stolen and were murdered, you remember the one. Both victims had CCW permits, they lived not far from us. Having a permit and gun that was not handy did not help, they were shot and burned.
A federal grand jury in New Mexico has indicted two Arizona prison escapees and their accomplice on capital murder and carjacking charges in the Aug. 2 deaths of an Oklahoma couple.
www.newson6.com
And the bad guys visited the state park at Santa Rosa, stayed there too.
And we had an incident near Los Alamitos, west of Santa Fe, where my handguns was close to being fired in defense.
New Mexico is a lovely state, hope to visit next month after maybe 50 visits over the years, that said, there is always risk, and it seems I had more than my share there. Did I mention the bear encounters, ? LOL several.
I cannot imagine open carry in New Mexico as being a good idea.
