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Breaking (NM): Gun show background check bill falls short on Senate floor
The Albuquerque Journal ^ | 12:02 pm Sat, Mar 16, 2013 POSTED: 12:02 pm | Dan Boyd

Posted on 03/16/2013 11:20:24 AM PDT by CedarDave

The New Mexico Legislature will not send legislation aimed at curbing gun violence to Gov. Susana Martinez’s desk, after a last-minute effort to approve a bill aimed at closing the state’s “gun show loophole” for background checks was thwarted in the Senate.

Repeated attempts to amend the bill by Sen. George Munoz, D-Gallup, led to several Republican senators speaking until the session’s noon adjournment time arrived.

(Excerpt) Read more at abqjournal.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: backgroundchecks; banglist; guncontrol; gunshows; secondamendment
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To: CedarDave
Liberty - 1

Commies - 0

MOLON LAVE!

21 posted on 03/16/2013 2:05:54 PM PDT by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: Westbrook

I was getting ready to comment on that biased description, as well. These so-called journalists make me sick.


22 posted on 03/16/2013 3:47:24 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! -Ps80)
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To: CedarDave
The real danger here is that the Governor announced early on that if it came to her desk, she would sign it.

Real disaster diverted and one of the reasons I have a "no chicks" rule, when it comes to politics

23 posted on 03/16/2013 4:57:15 PM PDT by elkfersupper ( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: CedarDave

“The New Mexico Legislature will not send legislation aimed at curbing gun violence to Gov. Susana Martinez’s desk...”

A big Hoo-rah for the great state of New Mexico.


24 posted on 03/16/2013 6:24:25 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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January 2012 2015

Drat - I was just typing up a time-machine joke.

25 posted on 03/16/2013 9:27:59 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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[[Breaking (NM): Gun show background check bill falls short on Senate floor]]

This month- but next mon th it may not- these anti-gunners WILL NOT stop until most states have implemented their anticonstitutional laws


26 posted on 03/16/2013 10:22:50 PM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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