U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- The State of New Mexico will no longer allow gun shows at state-run facilities. The New Mexico Gun Collectors Association, which had been holding shows at EXPO New Mexico at the State Fairgrounds in Albuquerque for more than 40 years, was given verbal notice that their October show has been canceled for that reason. Rocky Mountain Gun Shows has been told that their November show at the same facility is a no-go as well. After months of cancellations ostensibly due to COVID-related issues, the gun control boom was finally lowered on promoters of these legal events where honest citizens have lawfully exercised their Second Amendment right to purchase and own firearms for decades. Gun shows are no longer welcome on state property, nor are their customers, their rights, and the boost they provide to the state and local economy.
EXPO New Mexico is a state agency that, according to its website, works closely with the State Fair Commission to carry out day-to-day operations and host and produce events at the facility. Governor Lujan Grisham appointed all seven members of the State Fair Commission back in September of 2019. From the Commission’s website, it appears that the last time the Commission gave notice about a meeting when it actually met, and the last meeting for which minutes are available, was January of 2020. Nothing in those minutes mentions EXPO staff or the Commission taking action to end gun shows at the State Fairgrounds. Further, the New Mexico Legislature has not adopted legislation prohibiting such events on state property. So where does this sudden misguided policy change come from?
All signs point to Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham. Not to be outdone by her Left Coast recall colleague Gavin Newsom and anti-gun extremist lawmakers in the California Legislature who are considering a similar ban, she appears to have wildly wielded her executive power to use a state agency to target gun owners and throw a pre-election year bone to radical gun control activists. This is in spite of the fact that just two years ago, she signed into law NRA-opposed Senate Bill 8, the so-called “universal background check” bill, which supposedly closed the non-existent “gun show loophole” and required criminal records checks on private firearms sales at such events.
Senate Bill 8 has been a colossal failure, as proven by the lack of any prosecutions for violations of the law and the skyrocketing murder rate in Albuquerque. So, either the governor’s new policy is a tragic admission of that gun control failure or action that reveals the true motive of the gun control movement: to end gun shows altogether.
Contact Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham TODAY by phone at (505) 476-2200 and by email here. Tell her to reverse this policy and allow gun shows back at EXPO New Mexico and state fairgrounds. Urge your fellow gun-owning New Mexicans to do so as well!
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isn’t this a violation of the 14th Amendment? equal rights, equal protection under the law. anywhere one citizen or group is allowed to hold a event, any other group should legally be allowed to hold their event.
and so, when did constitution bother them
Yes, it is a violation of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
HLB
And yet “justices” have let legislators, executives, prosecutors & cops get away with selective double-standard political or corruption motivated enforcement & punishment ever since 14A was adopted.
New Mexico has been Californicated. Texas is next. Montana and Idaho are falling, too. The evil of Californians is that they are smart enough to get out of that failing state, but they are stupid enough to keep voting for the same party that ruined the place they left.
Dumb/ignorant lumping all Calis into a single species. Every Cali I know moved or is moving & is more conservative than the usual R where they move. You want them or you’re stuck with glazy-eyed Rs who elect cucks like Abbot & Phelan.
Agency Calls Genital Mutilation Child Abuse, Abbott Does Zip.
“Tx medicos are allowed to disfigure children, cut off body parts in gender mutilation surgery, chemically castrate with sterilizing cross-sex hormones & puberty blocker drugs.”
“Texans are wondering: Why won’t Gov Greg Abbott ask legislators to outlaw gender mutilation of minors?”
https://texasscorecard.com/state/state-agency-calls-genital-mutilation-child-abuse-questions-turn-to-gov-abbott/
What you don’t seem understand is that Californians are a far more “sophisticated…crowd” than the “credulous rubes”, “deplorables”, and/or “smelly WalMart shoppers” that they are simply helping to enlighten. Especially here in MT, but also ID and WY. They will have us squared away in no time at all. They will have us voting RINO before you know it.
For instance, yesterday my friend Russn8r “lump”ed all LEOs into a crowd of ne’redowells roaming the streets to harass and kill the hapless unfortunates that crossed their path. Voile’, now I am enlightened. 😉
Larry Hicks, a God fearin’, born in WY Republican was the one who killed the 2nd Amendment Preservation Act in WY by amending it into something useless:
https://www.wyoleg.gov/Legislators/2021/S/1963
As far as lumping – you did some lumping in the same post in which you accused someone else of lumping.
There are more people in California who support:
than there are in Wyoming.
I did no such thing. Can’t stop lying, can you Dog? Go lick your junk.
You’re one of the super-effective “cons” who did zip to bounce “pro-gun” Jon Tester all these years.
Ha ;-), some times i just can’t resist poking the hornets nest just for fun. Which one is Barney Fife and which one of you is his sidekick? It must be my Russkie friend, because now his prophetic powers reveal that just because MT sen. Testes won, I was somehow complicit in his victory. Hmmm, or is it his acronym buddy who has figured out how I am responsible for the actions of a sen. from another state??? Regarding your other suggestion, I didn’t think that was possible, but once again your experience, must be CA guys, has further enlightened… Read more »
You helped elect Tester in 2006, long before Californians flooded MT. Go lick your junk.
Ah, ha, my Russkie friend Rasputin Nostradamus now knows that my vote against MT sen. Testes in 2006 actually put him in office. (twilight zone music swells to a crescendo in the back ground) Fortunately, I have come to accept the peace that my days are numbered and, as much as what is happening to MT, ID, and WY by the influx of immigrants to the mother country is disheartening, there is nothing I can personally do about it.
Sure thing Dog. Blame Californians for your dereliction all the way back to 2006.
You voted against Tester? BFD. Did you donate, volunteer, sacrifice in any meaningful way to stop him?
I donated to Burns, Rehberg, Rosendale & MSSA and I don’t even live in Montana. You’re welcome.
Now you say “there’s nothing I can personally do because…California!” Great excuse for your self-serving negligence. Want to know why MT’s F’d? Look in the mirror next time you’re licking your junk.
“Hmmm, or is it his acronym buddy who has figured out how I am responsible for the actions of a sen. from another state???”
In your earlier post you indicated Californians are helping to enlighten people in WY.
I pointed out that people born in WY are screwing things up without any help from Californians.
Are you a former law enforcement officer?
Probably, but as I recall he claims to just be a copsucker.
Typical LaPierre NRA “action”. Recommending contacting the Liberal, anti-gun Democrat New Mexico Governor (dictator) and “telling” her to undo anything she has done, is just pissing into the wind, but that’s how the NRA works for you under LaPierre.
“Abbott had a signing. Sitting on (sic) the front was thieving Lapierre.”
-TEX
Your corrupt RINO cuck Abbott invited LaPew. Abbott’s the reason Tx “Con Carry” kept all the deadly “gun free” zones.
Agency Calls Genital Mutilation Child Abuse, Abbott does ZIP.
“Tx medicos are allowed to disfigure children, cut off body parts in gender mutilation surgery, chemically castrate with sterilizing cross-sex hormones & puberty blocker drugs. Texans are wondering: Why won’t Gov Greg Abbott ask legislators to outlaw gender mutilation of minors?”
https://texasscorecard.com/state/state-agency-calls-genital-mutilation-child-abuse-questions-turn-to-gov-abbott/
Sadly, that’s how all the major gun groups do “ACTION”: “Call your reps” even if it’s DiFi or another committed gun grabber in a secure seat. It’s feckless herd-think “strategy”, often a cynical fundraising vehicle. There’s no reason only to call your own reps. Every politician knows any American can donate or volunteer for or against any pol in any district or state. They have the same qualitative reason to listen to citizens from outside their district as they do pro lobbyists from other districts. Thanks partly to cell phones most office staff don’t ask residence. Few will rudely dismiss non-resident… Read more »
Plenty of empty walmarts, kmarts and other vacant building to host a show.
New Mexico is gonna get schooled. THere’s already precedent set in of all places Kalifornia that the government can NOT ban legal activities on state owned fair grounds A northern county in KA tried to ban GSOTW and got sued and lost. Same will happen in NM, and in KA if the state tries it.
Vote Grisham out of office next election. In the meantime, take them to court!
We should trade New Mexico for Baja California Sur. Sun, surf and sand for that lacking surf.