Gun sales surging in New Mexico Share Updated: 5:59 PM MDT May 6, 2021 Share Updated: 5:59 PM MDT May 6, 2021
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Show Transcript YOUR CHILD IS REALLY STRUGGLING, CONSIDER CONTACTING A PSYCHOLOGIST OR PSYCHIATRIST. SHELLY: GUN SALES SKYROCKETED IN NEW MEXICO DURING THE PANDEMIC, WITH MANY WOMEN BUYING HANDGUNS FOR THE FIRST TIME. DOUG: TARGET 7 COMBED THROUGH FBI DATA, AND WENT TO A GUN SHOP TO FIND OUT WHY. A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE BUYING GUNS IN NEW MEXICO DURING COVID. I PROBABLY BOUGHT FOR. A COUPLE OF HANDGUNS AND RIFLES. DOUG: LOOK AT THIS CHART FROM THE FBI, MORE THAN 200,000 GUNS WERE SOLD IN OUR STATE LAST YEAR. THAT IS AN INCREASE OF 28% FROM 2019, AND ITS THE MOST FIREARMS SOLD IN THE LAST TWO DECADES. I ENJOY GUNS. SOME GUNS I LIKE BETTER THAN OTHERS. I NEVER MET WHEN I DIDN’T LIKE. DOUG: IN 2020, WE WERE 21ST IN THE NATION IN THE NUMBER OF GUNS SOLD PER CAPITA. NEW MEXICANS LOVE THEIR GUNS AND THEY ALWAYS HAVE. DOUG: AB
An argument (and podcast) for reviving passenger rail in Colorado ski country
A high-speed rail fantasy (2013 by graphic artist Alfred Twu).
In doing some research for my appearance on Forrest Whitman’s On The Rail’s podcast on KHEN 106.9 FM radio in Salida, Colorado, I realized that I first started seriously writing about passenger rail service into the Colorado mountains back in the mid-aughts but that my true connection to trains, mountains, skiing and water runs much deeper.
I’ll dive into all of the history in a moment, but first some breaking news on the Tennessee Pass Line lease exemption filing by Colorado Midland Pacific Railroad. In a letter to the U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB) on Monday, March 15, a Washington, D.C. attorney wrote that “erroneous” opposition to the passenger proposal based on speculation about crude oil transport had prompted an amendment request.
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