Albuquerque Resolution Calls for Re-Writing the New Mexico Constitution

ammoland.com ^ | 8/13/2020 | Unknown

[rktman]

...anti-gun members of the Albuquerque City Council are calling for MORE GUN CONTROL!

That's right. This week, the Council's Finance & Government Operations Committee advanced Resolution 20-68 by Councilmembers Isaac Benton and Diane Gibson, which calls on the New Mexico Legislature to rewrite Article II, Section 6 (the Right to Keep and Bear Arms provision) of the New Mexico Constitution, rip out the state firearms preemption clause and put that enormously-significant change to a popular vote. The full Council will consider the resolution in the coming weeks.

Preemption prevents a patchwork of different local firearms rules and regulations across the state. It helps ensure uniformity in gun laws wherever you live, work or travel, so that law-abiding citizens don't unknowingly run afoul of confusing and conflicting local gun restrictions. If gun control advocates get their way, New Mexico could become one of only five states in the nation without this important protection. Cities like Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Las Cruces would be free to pass whatever type of gun control they wanted — gun bans, magazine limits, licensing and registration schemes, prohibitions on carrying firearms on your person or in your car — restrictions far beyond anything the New Mexico Legislature has already done or will do to your Second Amendment rights in the future.

[glennaro]

If you can change a constitution by merely voting to do so, then it’s not a “constitution”.

[CedarDave]

On US-285 about 20 miles south of Vaughn. Next to some roads in Nevada, this 100 mile stretch of divided highway between Roswell and Vaughn has to be one of the most desolate in the US - One rest area and that’s it. Not heavily traveled and speed is 75 mph though most go 80 or over.

[CedarDave]

Unlike other states, the NM constitution is hard to amend. First the legislature has to approve the constitutional amendment which is not always easy, and then it is put up to a vote in the next general election. So what ABQ wants to do is not likely to happen, certainly not soon.

[CedarDave]

This is the latest tactic of the left. Propose a constitutional amendment for a popular vote to get things the legislature won’t pass/governor won’t sign. It happened here in conservative MO with right to work and a couple of weeks ago with Medicaid expansion.

Unlikely in NM - see my #23.

[martin_fierro]

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[CedarDave]

A bar is a "close-contact recreational facility" and "Close-contact recreational facilities must remain closed."

7-30-2020 – Public Health Emergency Order Clarifying that Current Guidance Documents, Advisories, and Emergency Public Health Orders Remain in Effect; and Amending the March 23, 2020, April 6, 2020, April 11, 2020, April 30, 2020, May 5, 2020, May 15, 2020, May 27, 2020, June 1, 2020, June 12, 2020, June 15, 2020, June 30, 2020, and July 13, 2020 Public Health Emergency Orders Closing All Businesses and Non-Profit Entities Except for those Deemed Essential and Providing Additional Restrictions on Mass Gatherings Due to COVID-19