Group Sues After New Mexico Governor Suspends Right To Carry Guns In Albuquerque In Public

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Source: Huff Post/AP

Sep 9, 2023, 11:40 PM EDT

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s emergency order suspending the right to carry firearms in public in and around Albuquerque drew an immediate court challenge from a gun-rights group Saturday, as legal scholars and advocates said they expected.

The National Association for Gun Rights and Foster Haines, a member who lives in Albuquerque, filed documents in U.S. District Court in New Mexico suing Lujan Grisham and seeking an immediate block to the implementation of her order.

The challenge was expected, but even so, the governor’s action Friday was an attempt to “move the debate,” said Jessica Levinson, a law professor at Loyola Marymount’s Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, after Lujan Grisham announced that she was temporarily suspending the right to carry firearms in her state’s largest city and surrounding Bernalillo County.

The governor, a Democrat, said the 30-day suspension, enacted as an emergency public health measure, would apply in most public places, from city sidewalks to parks. She said state police would be responsible for enforcing what amount to civil violations and carry a fine of up to $5,000.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/albuquerque-guns-new-mexico_n_64fd382fe4b043f73bc10a3e

[JohnSJ]

1. I am so sick and tired of these gun loving jackasses

[3auld6phart]

2. Why the feck

Fo these yellow bellied cowards have to pack artillery any place. Phuckin cowardsafrid of their own shadows. Assholes the whole lot of them..

[AllaN01Bear]

3. im sick and tired hearing about these nameless faceless "groups"

that bring up these feckless lawsuits

[Ritabert]

4. The public has been complaining about the uptick in armed crime

...and the annual balloon festival starts next month. It probably has to do with that.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. You'd sue too if you thought they were coming to take your most intimate appendage

[republianmushroom]

6. She is trying, thank you, Gov.

[Ponietz]

7. Chief District Judge William P. Johnson is a disgrace

[link:

William P. Johnson is second from left in the back row.

[moonshinegnomie]

8. this will never stand up in court

even ted lieu has come out saying the ban is unconstitutional under current supreme court decision
the alburqurque police chief mayor and prosecutor alll say they wont enforce the law either since its unconstitutional


all it does is waste money on a court case your 100% guaranteed to lose

[NickB79]

9. It also sets a precedent when the court overruns the ban

That will be referred to in future gun law cases to further weaken existing gun laws.

Gun rights groups love this stuff.

[moonshinegnomie]

10. ive alway said that when a polititian does something blatently unconstitutional

they should re removed from office and made to pay a heavy financial price as well
applies to both the right and he left.
theres really no doubt this is unconstitutional. the governor at the minimum should have to personally pay any legal costs.
a right wing pol tried to ban books. same thing.....
a presidntital candidate tries to overturn an election. same thing.

[eggplant]

11. An epidemic of lead poisioning qualifies as a public health crisis, IMHO.

Ban the carrying of improperly stored ammunition. Carry all the unloaded weapons you like. Be prepared to show police that they are unloaded on demand.