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Ex-NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s national gun control group Everytown continues to mislead lawmakers that these two bills simply close the non-existent “gun show loophole” and regulate online firearms sales. In fact, these measures are far more expansive.
If you’re already familiar with these measures, scroll down to the action items below. If you are just learning about them, read on below to find out how restrictive this legislation is:
Senate Bill 48 & House Bill 50 prohibit you from selling your firearms to any distant relatives, friends, neighbors, business associates, or fellow gun club members without government permission. The bills would criminalize nearly all private firearm sales between individuals, regardless of where those transactions take place, and require them to be conducted through a licensed dealer involving extensive federal paperwork, background check and payment of an undetermined fee. Licensed dealers will have to maintain the paperwork recording these transfers for twenty years. Limited exceptions are only made for immediate family members, FFLs and law enforcement agencies, executors or administrators of estates and trusts, or police officers, military personnel, and licensed security guards acting in the course of their official duties.
SB 48 & HB 50 similarly restrict temporary firearm transfers -- including gifts, loans, and temporary changes in possession of a firearm, not just gun sales. There are a limited number of exemptions, including transfers necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm, those taking place exclusively at shooting ranges, while hunting or trapping, or during an organized competition or performance, or any time the transferor remains present the entire duration of the transfer. These exemptions are confusing, raise serious questions about the bills’ scope, compliance and enforceability, and highlight the overreach of the measures. Activities that could be criminalized under the bills without going through an FFL and obtaining government permission:
- A man loaning his girlfriend or fiancée his handgun for self-protection when homes or apartments in her neighborhood have been burglarized;
- A member of the military who is deployed overseas and wants to store his or her personal firearms with a trusted friend;
- Someone borrowing their co-worker’s gun to take on a hunting trip, to the local range or to shoot on BLM land when the colleague cannot accompany him or her on the excursion.
- Working ranch employees possessing and transporting ranch-owned rifles in vehicles or on their person.
- Volunteers staging auction or raffle items for a non-profit, charitable fundraising event where a firearm is displayed.
SB 48 & 50 also require the return of loaned firearms to original owners be conducted through a licensed dealer, with completion of federal paperwork and payment of an undetermined fee. The bill exempts “temporary” exchanges and only then if the transfer and the transferee’s possession take place exclusively at one of the locations or during one of the activities listed in the paragraph above. How are the original owners of firearms supposed to take back permanent possession of their loaned guns once they and the original transferee go their separate ways?
These proposals will tax scarce law enforcement resources, cost law-abiding citizens time, money and freedom, and they will do nothing to stop criminals. For more information, click here. Please click the “Take Action” button above to contact your state lawmakers and the members of the committees to whom these bills have been referred and urge them to oppose these measures!
SB 48 – Referred to Senate Public Affairs Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee
Public Affairs:
Chair Gerald Ortiz Y Pino (D-ABQ)
505-986-4482
jortizyp@msn.com
Sen. Bill O’Neill (D-ABQ)
505-986-4260
Oneillsd13@billoneillfornm.com
Sen. Craig Brandt (R-Rio Rancho)
505-986-4385
Craig.brandt@nmlegis.gov
Sen. Candace Gould (R-ABQ)
505-986-4266
Candace.gould@nmlegis.gov
Sen. Liz Stefanics (D-Santa Fe)
505-986-4834
Liz.stefanics@nmlegis.gov
Sen. Jeff Steinborn (D-Las Cruces)
505-986-4862
Jeff.steinborn@nmlegis.gov
Sen. Mimi Stewart (D-ABQ)
505-986-4267
Mimi.stewart@nmlegis.gov
Sen. Stuart Ingle (R-Portales)
505-986-4702
Stuart.ingle@nmlegis.gov
Judiciary:
Chair Richard Martinez (D-Espanola)
505-986-4487
Richard.martinez@nmlegis.gov
Sen. Daniel Ivey-Soto (D-ABQ)
505-986-4270
Daniel.ivey-soto@nmlegis.gov
Sen. Greg Baca (R-Belen)
505-986-4874
Greg.baca@nmlegis.gov
Sen. Jacob Candelaria (D-ABQ)
505-986-4369
Jacob.candelaria@nmlegis.gov
Sen. Joseph Cervantes (D-Las Cruces)
505-986-4385
Joseph@cervanteslawnm.com
Sen. Ron Griggs (R-Alamogordo)
505-986-4276
Ron.griggs@nmlegis.gov
Sen. Linda Lopez (D-ABQ)
505-986-4737
Linda.lopez@nmlegis.gov
Sen. Cisco McSorley (D-ABQ)
505-986-4389
Cisco.mcsorley@nmlegis.gov
Sen. Mark Moores (R-ABQ)
505-986-4859
Mark.moores@nmlegis.gov
Sen. Peter Wirth (D-Santa Fe)
505-986-4861
Peter.wirth@nmlegis.gov
Sen. Bill Payne (R-ABQ)
505-986-4703
William.payne@nmlegis.gov
HB 50 – Referred to House Consumer & Public Affairs Committee & House Judiciary Committee
Consumer & Public Affairs:
Chair Eliseo Alcon (D-Milan)
505-986-4220
Eliseo.alcon@nmlegis.gov
Rep. Patricia Roybal Caballero (D-ABQ)
505-986-4221
Pat.roybalcaballero@nmlegis.gov
Rep. Deborah Armstrong (D-ABQ)
505-986-4435
Deborah.armstrong@nmlegis.gov
Rep. Bob Wooley (R-Roswell)
505-986-4454
Bobwooley66@gmail.com
Rep. Monica Youngblood (R-ABQ)
505-986-4242
monica@mynmstaterep.com
Judiciary:
Chair Gail Chasey (D-ABQ)
505-986-4236
gail@gailchasey.com
Rep. Javier Martinez (D-ABQ)
505-986-4464
Javier.martinez@nmlegis.gov
Rep. Eliseo Alcon (D-Milan)
505-986-4220
Eliseo.alcon@nmlegis.gov
Rep. Cathrynn Brown (R-Carlsbad)
505-986-4415
c.brown.nm55@gmail.com
Rep. Zach Cook (R-Ruidoso)
505-986-4411
Zachary.cook@nmlegis.gov
Rep. Jim Dines (R-ABQ)
505-986-4242
Jim.dines@nmlegis.gov
Rep. Brian Egolf (D-Santa Fe)
505-986-4782
Brian.egolf@nmlegis.gov
Rep. Daymon Ely (D-Corrales)
505-986-4454
Daymon.ely@nmlegis.gov
Rep. Nate Gentry (R-ABQ)
505-986-4757
natefornm@gmail.com
Rep. Georgene Louis (D-ABQ)
505-986-4236
Georgene.louis@nmlegis.gov
Rep. Matthew McQueen (D-Santa Fe)
505-986-4214
Matthew.mcqueen@nmlegis.gov
Rep. Greg Nibert (R-Roswell)
505-986-4211
Greg.nibert@nmlegis.gov
Rep. Bill Rehm (R-ABQ)
505-986-4425
Bill.rehm@nmlegis.gov
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