Explain the evidence underlying this rather strange conclusion. How do non-residents have a "powerful voice in the NH legislature?" Who is this "powerful voice?"
Sorry for the time lag in replying. I have been offline for quite a few weeks.
The group of legislators who kept non-residents from having to pay at least break-even cost for the license are some of the wealthy, old-timer, "pro gun" Republicans who formerly dominated the Public Protection Committee. One chaired the committee for years, but no longer, and others fought losing battles for re-election and will probably not be back.
They knew that non-resident licenses were losing the state money as far back as 1999, but blocked every attempt to revisit the cost. They are also the same group who blocked every attempt to increase the minimum term for the NH resident license, who blocked an earlier attempt to remove the various restrictions on knives, and are in fact the same bunch that tried to reduce the term of the NH resident Pistol & revolver license not that long ago.