Gun Owners of America filed suit over Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's (D) ban on carrying a handgun in public.
AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Gun Owners of AmericaGun Owners of America filed suit over Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s ban on carrying a handgun in public in Albuquerque and other New Mexico cities.GOA, together with Randy Donk and the Gun Owners Foundation, seeks a temporary restraining order and/or preliminary injunction against the order.
Erich Pratt, GOA executive vice president, told Breitbart News, “Gun Owners of America has filed a federal lawsuit challenging Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s gross and egregious violation of the U.S. Constitution. Her claim that there are ‘exceptions to the Second Amendment’ is not only wrong, but it also blows open a huge hole in the Bill of Rights. GOA will not rest until the rights of New Mexicans are restored.”that the National Association for Gun Rights filed a suit as well.
The lawsuits come as a growing number of law enforcement figures make it clear they will not enforce the ban.that Bernalillo County District Attorney Sam Bregman said Saturday he will not be enforcing Grisham’s order.Bregman saying, “As an officer of the court, I cannot and will not enforce something that is clearly unconstitutional.”
Bregman added, “This office will continue to focus on criminals of any age that use guns in the commission of a crime.”“as an emergency public health order.” Law enforcement is exempt from the order, as are “licensed security guards.” However, licensed concealed carry permit holders — who carry daily for self-defense — are barred from carrying their guns as long as the order is in place.her telling one reporter that “no constitutional right … is intended to be absolute.
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