It would be great if we can get the Castle Doctrine in place as well as changing the CCW rule that you can only carry one firearm in New Mexico. Let's hope the new Governor can push some of the common sense ideas.
So do other states - now New Mexico needs it, and may do it this time. Current list of gun/2-A bills:
HB 136 - opens new legal carry areas, eliminates one concealed weapon law
HB 140 - eliminate the two-year refresher course for CCW
HB 148 - questionable- see if you can unscramble this one - I can't.
HB 228 - House version Castle Doctrine
SB 29 - no 2-year refresher, no renew fingerprints, more renew time
SB 220 - Senate version Castle Doctrine
HJR 10 is a Declaration of State Sovereignty under Constitutional Amendment 10 --- long overdue! Please push this one, as well as the others. Emails to committee members are welcome and read. Express yourself to all committee members as the bills progress to new committees. Always be polite!!! New Mexico Legislature will get you on the right page - click on bill finder and follow directions. If we don't push for, and support favorable bills, some committees will just let them die. Here's your chance to be part of the system, right from your home or business. Next chance is a year away, and that one is only 30 restricted days.
House Bill 148 is a good bill.
Between 1968 and 1986, a person could only purchase a rifle or shotgun at a FFL outside his or her state of residence if (1) it was a bordering state and (2) both the person's state of residence and the biordering state had enacted statutes affirmatively authorizing interstate long gun sales.
The Firearm Owner Protection Act of 1986 rewrote the law to allow dealer sales of rifles and shotguns as long as the sale was not prohibited by the laws of the purchaser's home state and the state in which the long gun is sold. Unfortunately, most of the state laws enacted between 1968 and 1986 were interpreted as restricting interstate long gun sales. Most states have since repealed those laws, as HB 148 proposes for New Mexico. If HB 148 is enacted, New Mexico residents could purchase rifles and shotguns at FFLs in any state that does not have a state law prohibiting the sale.
I am absolutely certain.
Under current federal law, there is absolutely no need for a state to affirmatively authorize interstate long gun purchases. Therefore, a pre-FOPA law (such as the one NM currently has) not only has no tangible benefit to anyone but often causes confusion about whether that state's residents can purchase long guns at FFLs in non-bordering states.
Link Removed is a recent NRA legislative update on a similar bill in South Dakota.
Also, it is a general principle of law that that which is not prohibited is legal. So why would we even want a law that purports to affirmatively authorize something that's absolutely legal in the absence of that law?
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