CONCORD — An effort to require colleges in New Hampshire to allow people to carry guns on campus died Thursday in the state Legislature.
The Senate doomed the effort when it decided in a voice vote not to form a committee of conference on the issue.
The House had passed a campus-carry bill, but the Senate-passed version would have allowed professors, but not students, to have firearms.
The Senate’s refusal to form a committee of conference to work out differences in the measure defeats the issue this session.
Testimony provided to the Legislature was mostly against the bill, with speakers saying that injecting firearms into college campuses would make them less safe.
Proponents said an armed student body would be able to respond quickly in the event of an active shooter incident.
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