As of today, the gun grab that New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham tried to put in place is halted. A federal judge slapped a temporary restraining order on this huge Constitutional overreach.

🚨UPDATE🚨

The State Of New Mexico agreed to an extension of the plaintiff's TRO to better fit their schedule!

Maybe this isn't as big of an EMERGENCY as they claimed.🤯 https://t.co/Z2JbvP9yqz

— Gun Owners of America (@GunOwners) September 13, 2023

Keep in mind that even a significant number of Democrats realized this arbitrary and very unConstitutional move was a gigantic misstep. Furthermore, the police chief, the sheriff, and even the New Mexico Attorney General has informed the world that this Emergency edict issued in the name of Public Health wasn’t workable. 

Which is also why New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez was NOT in court to represent the state and the Governor. 

A federal judge has blocked part of a public health order that suspended the right to carry guns in public across New Mexico’s largest metro area for 30 days, as criticism mounted over the actions taken by the governor and political divides widened.

The ruling Wednesday by U.S. District Judge David Urias marks a setback for Democratic New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham as she responds to several recent shootings that took the lives of children, including an 11-year-old boy as he left a minor league baseball game in Albuquerque.

Lujan Grisham imposed an emergency public health order Friday that suspended the right to open or concealed carry of guns in public places based on a statistical threshold for violent crime that is only encountered in Albuquerque and its outskirts. The governor cited recent shootings around the state that left children dead, saying something needed to be done. Still, she acknowledged that criminals would ignore the order.

In fact, this restraining order is in place as noted above, for fourteen days. The key issue is this, as we’ve and many others have repeatedly stated, it is NOT the law-abiding citizens that carry open or concealed who are killing children and adults in New Mexico. It is the CRIMINALS who break the law who are responsible!

During the hearing, U.S. District Judge David H. Urias, an appointee of President Joe Biden who took his seat on the bench last year, indicated that the numerous Supreme Court precedents on the Second Amendment suggested that the governor’s order would cause irreparable harm to citizens seeking to exercise their gun rights. Thus, he said, he had to issue a temporary strike of the ban — a move that does not rule on its merits.

“To be honest with you, I think you have kind of a hard road here to get up,” Urias told Holly Agajanian, the attorney for the governor’s office defending the rule.

In briefs and during Wednesday’s court session, lawyers for the various gun rights groups argued that Lujan Grisham and her administration went far beyond constitutional powers in issuing the order.

“The Second Amendment has no exception. It has no part of it that says as long as the state governor can issue an emergency, you’re allowed to take our citizens’ firearms,” Jason Bowles, an attorney representing the National Association for Gun Rights, said during the hearing. “There’s no historical evidence of that. There’s no support for it.”

However, the governor is digging in her heels even as this move is really driving a stake in her political career. 

Soooo, she’s basing this move to declare a public emergency on law-abiding citizens who carry on facts and science?? WOW. What is she smoking??!! 

It’s a FACT that criminals will use whatever weapon they can get their hands on …ILLEGALLY at that to commit their crimes. 

It’s a FACT that none of those innocent children were killed by law-abiding citizens. 

It is a FACT that destroying our 1st and 2nd Amendment rights won’t make any of our communities safer. 

In my opinion, she is using this public health emergency as an outright gun grab, even as she herself has admitted that the criminals will totally ignore this edict. 

The attorney representing the governor didn’t do her any favors either. During her arguments, which you can read in this full thread, she claimed the following:

A carry ban is constitutional because no one can predict which LEGAL gun owners will commit crimes. 

This ban is only for “sensitive” places and if someone wants to buy a gun, they still can – just “carry somewhere else.” 

The governor's lawyer is starting to raise her voice, saying the governor thinks the Second Amendment doesn't trump people's "right to walk down the street." Says the judge should wait 30 days to see if the order reduces crime.

— Firearms Policy Coalition (@gunpolicy) September 13, 2023

I’d suggest clicking on the X and reading who thread. Yes, she really argued all of that. Furthermore, she also argued that, since this was an order and not a LAW, then the Constitution doesn’t apply. Yes folks, she went there. 

Well, Governor Grisham is big mad about this and will dig her heels in even further. 

Today a judge temporarily blocked sections of our public health order but recognized the significant problem of gun violence in this state. I refuse to be resigned to the status quo, and I will never stop fighting to prevent other families from enduring these tragedies. pic.twitter.com/qRfSCUaNIL

— Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (@GovMLG) September 13, 2023

Then instead of placing State Patrol troopers at risk, Grisham should be holding the CRIMINALS accountable. A gun grab isn’t the answer. Trampling on our Second Amendment rights won’t solve the problem. 

One additional twist in this current saga is that the judge who put the TRO in place to halt this gun grab was appointed by …Joe Biden! 

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