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Judge blocks New Mexico governor’s anti-gun ‘health emergency’ executive order

Updated: September 14, 2023 at 10:57 am EST  See Comments

Thu Sep 14, 2023 – 10:30 am EDT

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (LifeSiteNews) — A federal judge issued a temporary injunction stopping Democratic Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s “health emergency” executive order that curtailed Second Amendment gun ownership rights.

The September 7 and September 8 “public health emergency” declaration came after the shooting deaths of multiple children from July to September, as previously reported by LifeSiteNews.

The leftist governor’s order suspended “open and concealed carry laws in Bernalillo County, temporarily prohibiting the carrying of guns on public property with certain exceptions” (such as police and security guards) and required lawful gun owners to “transport the firearm in a locked box, use a trigger lock, or some other mechanism that renders the gun incapable of being fired.”

Biden-appointed Judge David Urias ruled that the plaintiffs, including gun rights groups, “have shown a likelihood of success on the merits that their Second and Fourteenth Amendment rights to publicly carry a firearm for self-defense will be violated if the [order] remains in effect.”

He cited decades of Second Amendment jurisprudence, including the 2022 Supreme Court decision New York Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen.

Judge Urias ruled the executive order likely

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