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Santa Fe City Council to Consider Creating Untold Number of "Gun-Free Zones"

Thursday, December 22, 2022

Santa Fe City Council to Consider Creating Untold Number of "Gun-Free Zones"

Your Santa Fe City Council is currently considering a resolution that would make it a fourth degree felony for a person -- including a concealed handgun licensee -- to carry a firearm for personal protection in, or on, certain city-controlled properties that can be used for school-related or school-sanctioned events.  These would include the Santa Fe Community Convention Center and its underground garage (including personal vehicles, presumably), public libraries in the city, any facility -- public or private -- that students may visit to participate in school activities, and any facility -- public or private -- where Santa Fe Public School interns could be placed, including City Hall.

According to the resolution's preamble, anti-gun Mayor Alan Webber and gun control supporters on the Council are relying on an expansive interpretation of the state definition of school premises in New Mexico state law that includes "any.... public buildings or grounds, including playing fields and parking areas that are not public school property, in or on which public school-related and sanctioned activities are being performed."  However, none of the provisions of the proposed Santa Fe resolution clearly limit the firearm prohibition to the time there is an actual school event or school activity occurring.  Further, the resolution also grants the city manager complete discretion to designate additional "gun-free zones" all over the city using their expansive definition of school premises to include any place any student might ever go or be present at, for anything related to school -- potentially rendering law-abiding New Mexicans defenseless within significant parts of city limits. 

This resolution is a blatant attempt to override state law AND Article II, Section 6 of the New Mexico Constitution, which prohibits any municipality from regulating an incident involving the right to keep and bear arms in any way.  The City's Quality of Life Committee is expected to consider this resolution on January 4, and the full Council on January 11.  Please contact City Councilors and urge them to oppose this illegal, unenforceable and unconstitutional resolution banning firearms in countless city buildings and on an untold number of other properties.

Contact information for City Councilors can be found here​.

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