Useless law that won’t stop anything.<\/p>\n
Bill to help stop minors from accessing firearms heads to NM governor<\/a> Gun safety legislation is on its way to the governor\u2019s desk for a signature.<\/p>\n Bennie\u2019s Bill<\/a>, which would make it a crime for allowing a firearm to be accessible to a minor, passed with concurrence through the House by a vote of 34-28 on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n The bill was named after Bennie Hargove, a middle school student whose classmate fatally shot him in 2021 using his father\u2019s gun.<\/p>\n This bill would make it a misdemeanor for anyone to negligently have a firearm be accessible to a minor, and a fourth-degree felony if the minor who uses the gun significantly harms another person or themself.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a list of exceptions, including if the gun was kept in a locked container, securely stored or in an inaccessible location; if a firearm was used in self-defense; or in the case of an illegal entry on someone\u2019s property.<\/p>\n A Senate amendment included in the bill that passed from Sen. Steven Neville (R-Aztec) last week added an exception that would allow a minor to use a firearm for hunting, recreationally or any other lawful purpose.<\/p>\n Rep. Stefani Lord (R-Sandia Park) asked repeated questions about the extent and technicalities of this clause.<\/p>\n Rep. Pamelya Herndon (D-Albuquerque), the bill\u2019s sponsor, went back and forth with her colleague about the amendment before she said Neville could better explain the proposal.<\/p>\n However, Sen. Neville wasn\u2019t present at the House floor meeting.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m actually trying to get honest answers so when I go home and explain this, I want to make sure that none of our parents are committing a crime,\u201d Lord said. \u201cI don\u2019t want that to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n Lord asked if she should just wait for Neville to come to the House floor. In response, House Speaker Javier Martinez (D-Albuquerque) told someone to call Neville.<\/p>\n Martinez recommended that Lord continue with her questions and reminded the representatives that the bill still has to be signed by the governor and will take several months to even become law.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve got plenty of time to get a one-pager from the senator as to the technical aspects of this amendment,\u201d Martinez said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Useless law that won’t stop anything. Bill to help stop minors from accessing firearms heads to NM governor The bill was named after Bennie Hargove, a middle school student whose classmate fatally shot him in 2021 using his father\u2019s gun Gun safety legislation is on its way to the governor\u2019s desk for a signature. Bennie\u2019s … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90634,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90632\/revisions\/90634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe bill was named after Bennie Hargove, a middle school student whose classmate fatally shot him in 2021 using his father\u2019s gun<\/p>\n