Ban on guns at Albuquerque area parks and playgrounds allowed to lapse by governor

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Ban on guns at Albuquerque area parks and playgrounds allowed to lapse by governor

10/16: CBS Evening News

19:46

Santa Fe, N.M. — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced Wednesday that she has ended an emergency public health order that suspended the right to carry guns at public parks and playgrounds in New Mexico’s largest metro area.

The original public health order in September 2023 ignited a furor of public protests, prompted *********** calls for the governor’s impeachment and widened divisions among top Democratic officials. It also sought to strengthen oversight of firearms sales and monitor illicit ***** use at public schools through the testing of wastewater — before expiring on Saturday without renewal.

“I have decided to allow the public health order to expire, but our ****** to protect New Mexico communities from the dangers posed by guns and ******** drugs will continue,” Lujan Grisham said.

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New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on “Face the Nation” on July 28, 2024.

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She described strides toward reducing **** ********* through **** buyback programs, increased arrests, the distribution of free ****-storage locks and a larger inmate population at a county detention facility in Albuquerque.

She said more than 1,700 guns have been collected through **** buybacks,

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The governor’s initial order would have suspended ****-carry rights in most public places in the Albuquerque area, but was scaled back to public parks and playgrounds with an exception to ensure access to a municipal ********* range park. Lujan Grisham said she was responding to a series of shootings around the state that left children *****.

**** rights advocates filed an array of lawsuits and court motions aimed at blocking **** restrictions that they say would deprive Albuquerque-area residents of 2nd Amendment rights to carry in public for self-defense. The implications for pending lawsuits in federal court were unclear.

The standoff was one of many in the wake of a 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision expanding **** rights, as leaders in politically ********-leaning states explore new avenues for restrictions.

The **** restrictions were tied to a statistical threshold for violent ****** that applied only to Albuquerque and the surrounding area.

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