Posted on 05/23/2023 10:02:11 AM PDT by rktman
It was a week ago when Farmington, New Mexico was rocked by a deadly rampage shooting that left three people dead. No doubt, it rattled some cages there.
So, I don’t suppose anyone should be surprised that now lawmakers are using that deadly shooting to try and push more gun control. Disappointed, maybe, but surprised? Not really.
Tomorrow will mark one week since a young gunman shot and killed three people in Farmington. Since then, more elected leaders are calling for stricter gun control and enhancing criminal charges.
KOB 4 spoke with state lawmakers from both major parties Sunday.
Democrats have made the most noise this week, and we asked them about plans for the next legislative session. Gun control was a hot topic during the session this year, but not many of the bills introduced became law.
While the governor signed the Bennie Hargrove Act, both the assault weapon ban and the 14-day waiting period died in committee. Now the governor is re-upping those calls.
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Some lawmakers are already preparing to reintroduce bills like the assault weapon ban, while others say we need to take a different approach.
“I’m so grateful for the call the governor made, but we need to take this next step and figure out what we need to do next,” said state Rep. Andrea Romero.
Romero introduced a bill last session that would regulate the possession, sale, and transfer of assault weapons in New Mexico. That bill didn’t make it to the governors’ desk or even the House floor.
“We are seeing these perpetrated crimes with these automatic weapons of war across the country and of course we saw the weapon being used in Farmington was an AR-15, and that would have fallen under an assault weapons ban,” said Romero.
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Yup. If not for the absurd politics we might have retired there.
***Some lawmakers are already preparing to reintroduce bills like the assault weapon ban,***
Anyone remember Clinton’s AW ban? It was a joke! All it did was ban firearms by name. so, after the bill became law, the manufacturers simply changed the name of the rifle.
Banned the flash suppressor,
Banned the bayonet lug (how many bayonettings since 1900?)
Made the collapsible stock solid (just as they originally were)
Replaced the 30 rd magazine with a 10 rd magazine.(There were still millions of 30 rd magazines in public hands.
And the same BOWDLERIZED rifles were still for sale all through the “ban”.
The purpose of the ban is to make guns mostly illegal and totally under government control.
That is so guns can be incrementally eliminated over the course of years or decades, such as in England.
The purpose in England, was to make protect the government from the masses.
BINGO!
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