NH Lawmaker Pushing Campus Carry is Also a Student at UNH

“believes that students have the right to use guns in self-defense”

Posted by Mike LaChance Monday, February 2, 2026 at 08:00am 0 Comments

This is so great. We need more young people on the right to get involved.

U. New Hampshire student-turned state lawmaker pushing for ‘campus carry’ law

Samuel Farrington is a college student and New Hampshire state representative who believes that public universities should allow students to exercise their Second Amendment rights.

Farrington, a Republican and a senior at the University of New Hampshire, recently introduced a “campus carry” bill in the state House to require just that. The bill would prohibit public colleges and universities from “regulating the possession or carrying of firearms and non-lethal weapons on campus.”

He told The College Fix he wrote the bill because he felt unfairly prohibited from exercising his rights. He believes that students have the right to use guns in self-defense and higher education institutions are “overstepping and putting students at risk” by enforcing gun-free zones.

In an email interview last week, Farrington said he is concerned about his fellow students being cornered into an unprovoked attack by an assailant, or caught in the crossfire of a school shooting.

When school violence occurs in a gun-free zone, Farrington said the student is defenseless in a position where the criminal has quick and easy access to them.

“Gun-free zones create soft targets. There is a reason why 97% of mass shootings happen in so-called gun-free zones. The bad guy knows that victims won’t be able to put up a fight. This bill will help deter mass shootings,” Farrington said.

He also told The Fix that the recent shooting at Brown University is a tragic example of how “gun-free zone rules leave victims as defenseless while doing nothing to prevent the bad guy.”

Meanwhile, William Sack with the Second Amendment Foundation agreed that gun-free zones are meaningless in an emergency.

“It removes the agency and capacity of the rest of the law-abiding peaceable people present to defend themselves and others,” he told The College Fix in a recent email. In addition, Sack considered the gun-free zone status of a college campus a “hollow assurance” that a shooter would follow the law.