Dems drop first anti-gun bill of the 2023 Legislative Session (New Mexico, bans large capacity magazines)

The Piñon Post ^ | January 10, 2023 | Renato Costa

[CedarDave]

On Monday, far-left New Mexico state Rep. Patricia Roybal-Caballero (D-Bernalillo) dropped the Democrats’ first anti-gun bill of the 2023 Legislative Session, H.B. 50. The bill is a magazine ban that would make violations of the bill if passed, felons.

The bill reads, “It is unlawful for a person to possess or transfer a large-capacity magazine within New Mexico, except when the person is: a resident of another state who transports

a large-capacity magazine into New Mexico for use exclusively in an established shooting competition” or “a peace officer, in accordance with the policies of the peace officer’s law enforcement agency,” with multiple caveats. Other minor exceptions include being a member of the armed forces, certain manufacturers, certain armored vehicle operators, or those displaying such weapons in government-run museums or exhibits. 

It continues, “A person who violates the provisions of Subsection A of this section is guilty of a fourth degree felony and upon conviction shall be sentenced in accordance with the provisions of Section 31-18-15 NMSA 1978.”

Roybal-Caballero requests $1.5 million in state funds to carry out this gun grab throughout 2024, “including the funding of additional local and statewide law enforcement, court process, and incarceration.” She apparently is seeking to lock up more people in prison to push for her anti-gun agenda, despite Democrats claiming to want fewer people in prison.

The bill will likely be just the first of a flurry of bills that are hostile to the Second Amendment and New Mexicans’ other constitutional rights. Other proposals floated include creating a state office of “Gun Violence Prevention,” as well as an addition to New Mexico’s “red flag” bills. 

Read the bill and its supporting information here.

[CedarDave]

Text at this link:

AN ACT RELATING TO CRIME; CREATING THE CRIME OF UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OR TRANSFER OF A LARGE-CAPACITY MAGAZINE; PROVIDING EXCEPTIONS; PROVIDING PENALTIES; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION.

[rexthecat]

I guess they don’t know that there are a hundred bazillion of them already in circulation?

[rexthecat]

I guess they don’t know that there are a hundred bazillion of them already in circulation?

[CedarDave]

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[CedarDave]

I guess they don’t know that there are a hundred bazillion of them already in circulation?

That's why the sponsor specified "One million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the department of public safety for expenditure in fiscal year 2024 to carry out the provisions of this act, including the funding of additional local and statewide law enforcement, court process and incarceration."

[LegendHasIt]

Had to look in the legislation itself to find out that “large capacity” means ten rounds or more.

[DesertRhino]

Not even a grandfather clause.

[Seaplaner]

Hmmm, would drug lords and gangbangers in New Mexico respect such a law?

Might such a law be selectively enforced?

[rigelkentaurus]

Notice there is no exception for residents of other states whose only purpose is merely driving through New Mexico.

[SkyDancer]

Was high capacity magazines defined? How large?

[kiryandil]

or “a peace officer, in accordance with the policies of the peace officer’s law enforcement agency,”

Some animals are more equal than others in New Mexico...

[SkyDancer]

So you’d just tape two tens together.

[mrmeyer]

All grandfathering does is give them cover to pass legislation now and come after those grandfathered later.

[NorthMountain]

a peace officer

That's one of the ways we know these democRATs are totalitarian monsters ... always empowering the State at the expense of We the People.

[DesertRhino]

Yes… but this isn’t a mere cessation of sales. This is immediate confiscation. New Mexico communists, lead by radical females are sensing they can go to confiscation directly.

[LegendHasIt]

if “large capacity’ means 10 or more, 9 rounders would be the maximum legal.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Maybe Dad had enough foresight to drag us kids out of our beloved New Mexico 66 years ago, kicking and screaming to the tick and chigger infested Ozarks.
Here they sell new 30 rd mags right out of a big tub in the local Farm and Ranch store.
Things began to change in the Ozarks when Winthrop Rockefeller (WR) became governor back in the 1960s. The backwoods Hillbilly era was finally over till Slick Willie became Governor.

What has happened to my beloved New Mexico! A store in Clayton NM was selling AR-15s not long ago.

[Do_Tar]

I’m a member of the militia. That’s “armed forces”, right?

[SkyDancer]

Good point.

[IYAS9YAS]

So you’d just tape two tens together.

Nope. It bans ten rounds or more. Not more than 10 rounds. That means your 10/22 factory mags will make you a felon.