Bill to Expand New Mexico’s Red Flag Gun Laws Hits Hurdle
A bill that seeks to expand New Mexico’s fledgling red flag gun laws has been bumped from this year’s 60-day legislative session by more pressing priorities, according to local reports.
“For all intents and purposes, it’s gone, unless something really radical changes,” one of the bill’s Democrat sponsors, State Rep. Daymon Ely, told the Santa Fe New Mexican on Wednesday. “But there are just too many other priorities this time.”
Calling the bill’s demise in this year’s session a “calendar management problem,” Ely told the outlet he hopes to revive House Bill 193 next year.
“This bill will not make our communities safer. In fact, what it will do is cause law-abiding citizens to lose more of their Second Amendment rights.” Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA)
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