Hi Outdoor Board,

If any of you are NM residents, please contact your Senator and Rep to make your voice heard.
See email below from the NMSSA. I just sent my email to the committee members this morning.

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On Wednesday, February 11, SB17, the omnibus gun control bill, will be in the House Commerce and Economic Development Committee for its first hearing on the House side. The meeting will be in Room 317 (zoom link), starting at 1:30pm or after the floor session whichever is later. This will be one of the last opportunities to testify against the bill. Below are the contact details for committee members and key points against the bill:

• SB17 would be one of the worst gun and magazine bans in the entire nation. In the Heller decision at the United States Supreme Court, guns "in common use" are protected. Gas-operated semiautomatic rifles are the most common types of rifles sold in the United States today. The Chair of the New Mexico Senate Judiciary Committee stated he believes the bill is unconstitutional.
• The process of how the state would determine what is and isn't covered by the ban isn't clear, "gas-operated firearm" isn't defined anywhere else in state law.
• The State of New Mexico has shown it cannot enforce current laws, this would be the largest expansion of gun laws in state history. Diverting NMDOJ and NMDPS resources to figuring out how to implement and enforce the law would pull their attention away from the actual criminal issues they already struggle with.
• The state recently passed a state-level law making it a felony to straw purchase a firearm for someone who cannot legally poses one, since we already have that law, why does the state need to now go after gun dealers. We need to enforce the law, not make new ones.

Committee Members
doreen.gallegos@nmlegis.gov
Janelle.Anyanonu@nmlegis.gov
joshua.hernandez@nmlegis.gov
gail@gailfornewmexico.com
art.delacruz@nmlegis.gov
derrick.lente@nmlegis.gov
Jimmy.Mason@nmlegis.gov
marian.matthews@nmlegis.gov
mark.murphy@nmlegis.gov
cristina.parajon@nmlegis.gov
linda.serrato@nmlegis.gov

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Is this gonna be a deal where you can't drive through the state with the guns either?

Just like high capacity mags, concealed carry, etc, they pass the bill to make sure they get reelected, then the Supreme Court kills it. Just trying to get folks riled up (on both sides of the aisle)

What has really screwed rural states is when state senators went from being selected at the county level to strictly popular vote. So we get ignored, just like the folks in eastern OR and WA have been.

I don't have to worry, all my weapons are somewhere at the bottom of Quemado Lake.

To add the historical account from wikipedia,

There are typically fewer state senators than there are members of a state's lower house; a senator's job is to represent the people at a higher level than a state representative in the lower house.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_senator#cite_note-1][1][/url] In the past, this meant that senators represented various geographic regions within a state, regardless of the population, as a way of balancing the power of the lower house, which was apportioned according to population. This system changed in 1964, when the Supreme Court of the United States announced in Reynolds v. Sims that state legislatures must apportion seats in both houses according to population.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_senator#cite_note-2][/url]

They've wanted this for decades; they just not figured out that semi's operate on gas system and furiously added it in to sound like they know what they're talking about

Joking, but maybe not....

Surely someone will sue, and ultimately SCOTUS will rule it unconstitutional.

These cases don't go to the scotus, they get struck down by the 10th circuit

MagnumLoad said:

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Surely someone will sue, and ultimately SCOTUS will rule it unconstitutional.

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I can't imagine that it would ever make it to the point of having to be struck down. For that to happen, it has to pass and be signed into law.

Gov. Lujan is the worst. It's a real shame the libs of Santa Fe and the grifters of Albuquerque have ****ed up such a beautiful state.

Removing the absurdity of most of what they're trying to pass, a state law prohibiting straw purchases isn't necessarily a bad thing. Feds almost never pick up cases for it. Texas actually has a similar law already under PC46.06.

We should have never sliced off that chunk of the Republic of Texas. We'd have half of NM, and parts of OK, CO, and WY.