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We spent July in a very small town in Northern NM. The nearest Wal-Mart is 50 miles away but it is in Colorado so no problems with CC. But I will weigh in on the NM sign issue. The only good restaurant in our little town had a "no guns" sign that actually wasn't attached to anything and leaned against the glass in one of the front windows. It was 8"x10". Some days it was there, other days it wasn't. It wasn't alone - they had other signs that that leaned against the window and every day they would be in a different position. It wasn't clear to me what they were trying to accomplish.

The only grocery store in town sold liquor by the bottle. It had the big sign like the 30.06 sign on both front doors - but without the license disclaimer that was passed a couple of years ago. The correct sign with the disclaimer was placed over the actually liquor sales area. Again, I'm not sure what they were trying to accomplish. But as a tourist, I wasn't about to ask question. Like many other places, there is a love/hate relationship with tourists. They need tourists to survive but don't like the attitudes of many who visit their town.

An interesting point is that the town doesn't have its own police force. It is served by the State police. It isn't clear how they feel about residents of other States carrying in town. I decided that the "concealed is concealed" is the best approach. We've been in the restaurant when one of the State police officers came in with his family. If he had been by himself, I might have struck up a conversation and included that topic.