Senate committee shoots down extreme anti-gun bill (NM Legislature)

The Piñon Post ^ | February 27, 2023 | Renato Costa

[CedarDave]

On Monday, the New Mexico Senate Judiciary Committee tabled 6-3 an extreme anti-gun bill, S.B. 171, by Sen. William Soules (D-Doña Ana).

According to the bill’s fiscal impact report, it would have prohibited “the manufacture, sale, barter, trade, gift, transfer or acquisition of… Assault pistols; Automatic firearms; Rifles with barrel lengths less than 16 inches; Shotguns with barrel lengths less than 18 inches; Mufflers, silencers, or devices for deadening or muffling the sound of discharged firearms; Any type of ammunition or any projectile component thereof coated with Teflon or any other similar coating designed primarily to enhance its capabilities to penetrate metal or pierce protective armor; and Any type of ammunition or any projectile component thereof designed or intended to explode or segment upon impact with its target.”

The panel’s chairman Sen. Joseph Cervantes (D-Doña Ana), joined all Republicans and Sens. Bill O’Neill and Daniel Ivey-Soto (D-Albuquerque) in tabling the bill.

After the bill was defeated, Senate Republican Leader Sen. Greg Baca wrote in a press release, “Like most of the gun bills being considered this Session, Senate Bill 171 needlessly targets law-abiding citizens and threatens them with a felony for exercising their Second Amendment right.”

The committee’s overwhelming rejection of the extreme ant-gun bill could be a sign that another extreme attack on the Second Amendment, H.B. 101 by Rep. Andrea Romero (D-Santa Fe), could die. The bill would make most New Mexican gun owners felons by banning nearly all firearms over ten rounds.

H.B. 101 previously passed the House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee on a party-line vote and awaits a hearing in the House Judiciary Committee. If it survives that committee, it would then need to pass the entire House and the Senate, where it is likely to die in Senate Judiciary Committee.

Also on Monday, the House Government, Elections, and Indian Affairs Committee advanced a bill along party lines to ban firearms within 100 feet of polling places. This would include ballot drop boxes and ban concealed carry at the polls.

[CedarDave]

Still another two weeks of the session to go for the radical Dems to make mischief.

[CedarDave]

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[lee martell]

“Shoots down extreme anti-gun bill”
Good imagery.
Best use a shotgun, to get all those itty, bitty similar bills at the same time.

[FlingWingFlyer]

When guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. That’s ungood.

[Bonemaker]

Sante Fe democrats are as bad as it gets and they’ve got an Olympic class snot for governorette.

[wjcsux]

Leonard (Lee) Rawson is a good friend of mine. He’s absolutely appalled by what the State Legislature has turned into.

[wbarmy]

Assault pistols? Where do I buy one of those? Asking for a friend.

[Disambiguator]

What is an assault pistol? A revolver that has been used to pistol whip someone?

[Tijeras_Slim]

They are short barreled versions of the AR and AK without shoulder stock. Absolutely worthless except looking bad in gang pics.

[Disambiguator]

I should have included a sarc tag. I was mocking the whole “assault” moniker used by the commies. It’s a meaningless term.

[Organic Panic]

HAHAHA. Idiot democrats still worried about Teflon coated bullets without knowing anything about WHY bullets were coated with Teflon.