Gun Group SUES New Mexico Governor Who Banned Guns Due To “Public Health Order”

As WLT reported earlier, Democratic Governor of New Mexico Lujan Grisham issued an emergency order on Friday night that suspends the right to carry guns openly in public.

Gov. Grisham issued an emergency order that suspends the rights for residents to carry open and concealed guns across Albuquerque and other parts of Bernalillo County.

Grisham declared the gun ban in an emergency public health order after an 11-year-old was shot outside of a minor league baseball game.

A gun advocate group is now fighting back and is suing Grisham and other New Mexico officials.

The National Association for Gun Rights has filed a lawsuit and have called for an immediate block of the Governors orders.

BREAKING REPORT: National Association for Gun Rights sues after New Mexico Governor SUSPENDS RIGHT to carry guns in Albuquerque..

NAGR has DEMANDED THE IMMEDIATE BLOCK of the Governor's order..

— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) September 10, 2023

Here’s the paperwork:

New Mexico Governor Michelle Grisham just declared a "gun violence public emergency" and BANNED the public carry of guns in Albuquerque and the surrounding county by executive order.

Not on our watch! THAT IS WHY WE ARE SUING THE GOVERNOR OF NEW MEXICO!https://t.co/ekMRsXIu91 pic.twitter.com/kRDOt9bxZV

— National Association for Gun Rights (@NatlGunRights) September 9, 2023

Here’s what The Hill reported:

A gun rights group sued New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) and other state officials on Saturday over an emergency order banning firearms from being carried in public in Albuquerque.

The National Association for Gun Rights, alongside Albuquerque resident Foster Haines, filed suit just one day after Grisham announced the public health order temporarily suspending concealed and open carry laws in the city.

The group argued that the order violates their Second Amendment rights, pointing to the Supreme Court’s decision last year in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen.

The high court struck down a New York concealed carry law in the Bruen ruling, finding that firearm regulations must be based in the country’s historic tradition to be considered constitutional.

“The State must justify the Carry Prohibition by demonstrating that it is consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation,” the complaint reads. “But it is impossible for the State to meet this burden, because there is no such historical tradition of firearms regulation in this Nation.”

BREAKING: Gun Owners of America announce they have filed a lawsuit against the New Mexico Governor’s firearm carry ban.

— Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) September 10, 2023

Per AP:

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s emergency order suspending the right to carry firearms in public in and around Albuquerque drew an immediate court challenge from a gun-rights group Saturday, as legal scholars and advocates said they expected.

The National Association for Gun Rights and Foster Haines, a member who lives in Albuquerque, filed documents in U.S. District Court in New Mexico suing Lujan Grisham and seeking an immediate block to the implementation of her order.

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The challenge was expected, but even so, the governor’s action Friday was an attempt to “move the debate,” said Jessica Levinson, a law professor at Loyola Marymount’s Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, after Lujan Grisham announced that she was temporarily suspending the right to carry firearms in her state’s largest city and surrounding Bernalillo County.

The governor, a Democrat, said the 30-day suspension, enacted as an emergency public health measure, would apply in most public places, from city sidewalks to parks.