Gubernatorial candidate Rebecca Dow

STATE News:

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES — The New Mexico Legislative Council (Monday night) passed a proposal banning firearms including concealed handguns and other “dangerous weapons” from the capitol complex.

This proposal is in direct defiance of the Constitution of New Mexico Section 6, which says “No law shall abridge the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes, but nothing herein shall be held to permit the carrying of concealed weapons. No municipality or county shall regulate, in any way, an incident of the right to keep and bear arms.”

“Speaker Egolf and the radicals in the legislature have no reason for putting these anti-gun measures in place for law abiding citizens other than their lack of education about firearms, lack of regard for our Constitution, and lack of connection to the everyday New Mexican,” Gubernatorial candidate Rebecca Dow said in a statement regarding the proposal.

“This is just another instance of our government under the direction of MLG disregarding the rights of law abiding New Mexicans for their own political gain. We’ve seen our radical government leaders sign away our right to bear arms year after year, then threaten our law enforcement after they explained the laws were unenforceable. Then we saw them target gun retailers, slapping them with massive fines for not operating under MLG’s strict shutdown orders.

“Now, in a place that should be protecting our rights, the Council and Speaker Egolf seek to destroy them. I have fought the radical legislature on this issue before, and I am happy to stand up to them again. We need to send a message that our freedoms are more important than their political agenda.”

Editor’s note: Rebecca L. Dow has served in the New Mexico House of Representatives from the 38th District since 2017. She is running for the Republican nomination in the 2022 gubernatorial election.