NRA-ILA | New Mexico: Waiting Period & Gun Industry Lawsuit Legislation Advancing In Senate

Home Invoice 101 (Semi-Auto Ban & Journal Restrict Invoice NOT on Home Judiciary Committee Agenda In the present day!)

On Sunday, March 5, the Senate Well being & Public Affairs Committee voted out two excessive measures that focus on law-abiding residents and the firearms business:

Senate Invoice 427 by Sen. Joseph Cervantes (D-Las Cruces), imposes a 14-day ready interval on all firearm purchases, with an exception for hid handgun licensees. Like Home Invoice 100, this measure will add nothing to the present FBI background examine course of and will solely delay your skill to train your Second Modification proper to defend your self, your loved ones and your property. This is able to make for the longest firearms buy ready interval in all the nation!  For extra data on this proposal, click on right here.

Senate Invoice 428 by Sen. Joseph Cervantes (D-Las Cruces) creates a hostile local weather for lawful firearm-related industries and transactions by facilitating an rising quantity of litigation and claims, with vastly elevated legal responsibility publicity and civil penalties, for even minor suspected violations of the phrases of an FFL or the legislation as the premise for Unfair Commerce Practices Act proceedings. For extra data on this invoice, click on right here. This laws was considerably amended in committee; we are going to report again to you on the impression these modifications have on the invoice and what motion gadgets should be taken on the measure.

For now, these payments transfer to the Senate Judiciary Committee for consideration subsequent.  Here is what you are able to do NOW to assist cease SB 427:

* Contact SJC Committee members and urge them to OPPOSE SB 427.  NRA-ILA will notify you when this invoice is scheduled for a public listening to.

Click on right here to contact your State Senators in opposition to SB 427 in anticipation of a Senate flooring vote.