2024 in New Mexico, and more broadly, the United States, brings more proposed legislation to ban guns, no matter what the cost may be. In New Mexico’s upcoming 2024 legislative session, Democrats have introduced a series of gun control bills, including HB 137, aimed at what they say is curbing gun violence. The bill in question heavily mirrors a proposed law introduced by Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) in the United States Senate called the Gas-Operated Semi-Automatic Firearms Exclusion Act (GOSAFE) Act. Both bills would ban the sale of all firearms that are gas-operated, with few minor exceptions, and would force existing owners to register them.
The sponsor of New Mexico’s HB 137, Democratic state Rep. Andrea Romero, demonstrated her blasé attitude and lack of understanding on what is and is not constitutional in a statement, when asked about the bill:
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