The legality of restricting public gun carrying during a public health emergency order is facing scrutiny in New Mexico, as Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham navigates a constitutional debate.
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Advocates for gun rights have filed a barrage of challenges to the 30-day health order, which originally included broad restrictions on carrying guns in public. The governor has tied the suspension of some gun rights to a statistical threshold for violent crime that applied only to Albuquerque and the surrounding area.Urias said in a recent court filing that restrictions on gun activity at playgrounds and other places where children play"may very well be constitutional."
The order has energized advocates for gun rights, including Republican lawmakers who have threatened impeachment proceedings against Lujan Grisham.and civil rights leaders warn that the governor's move could do more harm than good to overall efforts to ease gun violence, and the Democratic state attorney general has urged her to reconsider.
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