New Mexico Law Would Ban Under-12 Youth Firearms Training
Well it’s come to this… Democratic Party legislators in New Mexico are seeking to make it a crime if parents teach their younger children how to shoot. These anti-gun politicians will stop at nothing to undermine gun rights and the Second Amendment, and their goal here is clearly to stop the next generation from becoming trained shooters.
As reported in GunsAmerica Digest, a new bill, SB 224, has been introduced in New Mexico that would “criminalize parents and other adults for allowing children under the age of 12 to use [the adults’] firearms at a gun range.” SB 224 was introduced by New Mexico State Sen. Sedillo Lopez, a far-left Democratic Legislator who has been endorsed by the anti-gun group Everytown for Gun Safety.
This Bill would effectively ban all organized gun training for young persons under 12 in New Mexico. This could eliminate 4H and Boy Scouts marksmanship training activities for boys and girls under 12. So much for that Marksmanship Merit Badge.
Bill Attacked for Demonizing Firearms Training
SB 224 has been slammed by The New Mexico Shooting Sports Association (NMSSA) which calls the proposed bill “an uneducated attempt to demonize firearms.”According to the NSMMA, the bill “would make it a crime for a child to handle your firearm unless the child was 12 or older and had previously completed a firearms safety class. You would become a criminal for taking your child to go shooting if they had not previously taken some kind of formal class.”
Sen. Lopez and her anti-gun allies assert that SB 224 is merely a “safe storage” law. However SB 224 creates an “authorized user” category, defined as “an individual who has been specifically granted permission to have access to the firearm”. This authorized user restriction is how training will be forbidden. Minors can only be authorized users if they are at least 12 years old AND have successfully passed a firearm safety training course.” Any gun contact by a boy or girl under 12 is outlawed. The bill further requires that weapons remain in “direct control” of the owner or authorized user if they are not in a locked container. SB 224 defines “direct control” as having the firearm “within an arm’s length of the firearm’s owner or other authorized person”. Violation of the law could result in fines or prison.
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I read nothing in the 2A where it only applies to citizens of a given age
Vengan a España y se darán cuenta de la legislación y políticos que tenémos.
Sigán votando a la extrema izquierda y se verán cómo los venezolanos.
Translation: Come to Spain and you will realize the legislation and politicians that we have.
Keep voting for the extreme left and you will see how Venezuelans do.
We have the Second Amendment for a reason. We have the right to self protection!! Now we are defunding the police. You do not have the right to take our guns away from us nor tell us how to raise our children. Our children learned how to handle & respect a firearm from the early childhood. They are safe and knowledgeable because of it. You have no right to take that away. Stop trying to change our constitution
Could someone in Albuquerque please provide Ms. Sedillo Lopez a copy of the Bill of Rights , and explain to her what , “SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED” means . She very clearly , and apparently skipped school that day .
When is the last time we have heard of anyone under 12 years of age holding up a bank at gunpoint? I think if you look, you will find a situation where a youth protected themselves and thier family with a firearm. I never want to live in a country where a violent Dictator can command me to conduct myself in any manner they want without my protection.
We don’t have to go very rar back in history to picture ourselves as a resident of Germany during WWII. We do not have to change anything. The men who put our Constitution together got it right.