You’ll have heard by now that the Governor of New Mexico did what we all said they would. She declared guns a public health threat (I believe she used the word ’emergency’) and suspended open and concealed carry laws (on public property) in Bernalillo County, with exceptions.
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Exceptions include for licensed security guards and law enforcement officers. Citizens with permits to carry firearms are free to possess their weapons on private property (such as at a gun range or gun store), provided they transport the firearm in a locked box, use a trigger lock, or some other mechanism that renders the gun incapable of being fired,” according to the press release.
There is nothing healthy about government stomping on your liberties, and we don’t even have to work hard to prove that. Politicians are the worst medicine, but the black Democrat heart wants what it wants, and disarmament is high on the list of things for which it longs. Grisham is just scratching her totalitarian itch. She testing the waters – launching a trial balloon, taking a left turn at Albuquerque.
A Pfederal judge promptly popped that balloon by doing what was expected but rarely seen. He said no, you can’t do that.
U.S. District Court Judge David Urias, a Biden appointee, issued a temporary restraining order against Grisham’s gun grab until the next hearing in early October.
Judge Urias said Grisham violated the rights of law-abiding citizens to defend themselves.
Grisham still had the itch.
BREAKING: New Mexico Governor says she is amending her executive order to allow open and concealed carry (except in public parks and playgrounds) due to the “debate in court”
— Firearms Policy Coalition (@gunpolicy) September 15, 2023
Oddly enough, the usual suspects are play-acting their objection. Grab Your Guns Grisham has everyone, including her State AG, telling her she’s on her own.
“I am writing to inform you that my office will not defend your administration in the above-referenced cases challenging the Public Health Emergency Order Imposing Temporary Firearm Restrictions, Drug Monitoring and Other Public Safety Measures (the Emergency Order) issued by the Secretary of Health on September 8, 2023,” Raul Torrez wrote in a 4-page letter.
The consensus, even on the left – according to most reports – is that now is not the time to use public health as an excuse for the much sought-after disarmament agenda. Gateway Pundit Reports that failed pillow entrepreneur David Hogg thinks it’s a bad idea. But what about the people in Alburquqe?
The County Sherrif won’t enforce it. And I’d like to think they’ve got some of that wild-west liberty brewing somewhere in the mass of people accumulated in Bernalillo County, but it’s a blue place. Republicans don’t win too many elections there, certainly not state or national races. This suggests that the majority is willing to let the government take their liberties.
Grisham’s trial ballon may not get far, but it’s been floated, and I’m betting we’ll see it again, especially if she manages to find the sweet spot. That point at which she can steal your rights with the least amount of resistance.
