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Like all of you, we have been closely monitoring the escalation of the Coronavirus outbreak. As you may have heard the state of New Mexico has put into effect that there is (sp) no gatherings aloud(sp) with over 100 people, as a result we were forced to cancel our show held on April 4-5 in Albuquerque. We hope you all stay safe and healthy and we look forward to seeing you in the future. Kind Regards
Watch NRA EVP and CEO Wayne LaPierre address CPAC 2020!
The Phoenix Field Division is responsible for ATF criminal enforcement and industry regulatory activities in the States of Arizona and New Mexico. This field division is committed to reducing violent crime in our communities by denying criminals access to firearms, and removing armed offenders from our streets to face justice in our courts. We encourage all residents to get involved and assist us in our goal of reducing crime in our neighborhoods by anonymously submitting information through our ATF Tips app (Android and iOS), visiting the reportit website, submitting an anonymous form, or by reaching out to your local field office. Give us a call and let us know what we can do for you. Our phone number is (602) 776-5400.
When Stephen Bush, a rancher and avid hunter with deep roots in the northeastern town of Clayton, passed away in 2013, there was not a service, not even an obituary in the local newspaper. The only thing he asked of his wife Susie, was to have something to show that he lived on Earth. He also wanted a shooting range. Fast-forward a few years when several community members from Clayton approached the Department of Game and Fish about building a public shooting range in Union county. Land was going to be the deciding factor. For Susie Bush, this would give her the perfect opportunity to honor her husband, who was born and raised on a Clayton ranch. They met in Colorado and married in 1977, eventually making their way back to New Mexico in 1994, where they settled on a ranch in Sedan, near Clayton. They had purchased 320 acres on the north side of Clayton just before Stephen passed away. In addition to hunting, Stephen enjoyed target shooting. Susie determined the best way to fulfill her husband’s wishes was to donate half of the property to the Department to build a shooting range. During the initial planning stages, the Department decided the first phase of the project would be establishing a primitive 200-yard shooting range. However, Susie wasn’t satisfied with that, so she contributed a significant cash donation to be used as a match against the federal Wildlife and Sportsfish Restoration grant. The range was expanded to include two additional bays, each 50-yards. One range for pistols only and another for smallbore rifles to accommodate youth shooting sports programs like 4-H. Shade structures over the firing lines were added as well as a vault toilet. There are also primitive areas that can be developed for archery and shotgun ranges in the future. Starting March 6, 2020, all this range has to offer will be free to the public, open seven days a week from dawn to dusk. Stephen M. Bush Memorial Shooting Range Grand Opening Flier
(Editor: I suggested to the State that they no longer call it a Governor’s Special considering our socialist anti-gun Governor wouldn’t approve and shouldn’t be related to this event.) WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal of the federal ban on bump stocks, devices that allow semi-automatic firearms to fire rapidly like machine guns. The justices did not comment in declining to review a lower court-ruling that upheld the ban, which took effect nearly a year ago. President Donald Trump said that the government would move to ban bump stocks, following a 2017 shooting in Las Vegas in which a gunman attached bump stocks to assault-style rifles he used to shoot concertgoers from his hotel room. By using the devices, which allow shots to be fired more rapidly, the gunman was able to fire more than 1,000 rounds in 11 minutes. Fifty-eight people were killed, and hundreds were injured. The Trump administration’s move was an about-face for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. In 2010, under the Obama administration, the ATF found that the devices were legal. But under the Trump administration, officials revisited that determination and found it incorrect. The revised regulation requires owners either to destroy their bump stocks or surrender them. The government estimates hundreds of thousands of the devices have been sold. The revised regulation was met with resistance from gun rights advocates, including the groups and gun owners who filed suit in Washington, D.C., and whose appeal the court turned away Monday. The administration, which typically supports gun rights, argued the court should not take up the case. (Editor: This is a black eye for Trump and for the NRA not pushing Bigly on this.)
With one-party control of the New Mexico state government for the past two years, Democrats have pushed several anti-gun bills including one signed into law this week. Further estranging the state’s sheriffs and pro-gun advocates, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Tuesday signed a new “red flag” bill into law. The measure, SB 5, was backed by national anti-gun groups such as Giffords and Bloomberg-financed Everytown, who applauded the action by Lujan Grisham, a Democrat who ran for office on support from such groups. The bill squeaked through the Democrat-controlled state Senate earlier this month largely along party lines in a 22-20 vote while the state House greenlighted the proposal 39-31. The law adopts an Extreme Risk Fiream Protection Order program in the state to allow courts to order temporary gun seizures for up to a year. Arguing the concept ranges from flawed to downright unconstitutional, 30 of the state’s 33 sheriffs opposed the move. To this, Lujan Grisham this week said the lawmen should step down if they persist in vows to refuse to enforce the controversial seizures. “If they really intend to do that, they should resign as a law enforcement officer and leader in that community,” she said, as reported by ABC. Second Amendment groups, who strongly opposed SB 5, argued it would have little impact on crime while forcing individuals to surrender legal firearms to law enforcement based on uncorroborated statements, then putting them into an expensive uphill fight to get their rights restored. Further, the law requires the individual who is the subject of the order be reported to the FBI’s NICS background check database as a person prohibited from purchasing a firearm until the order expires. Red flag bills are often pitched to lawmakers as a tool to be used by police in uncommon circumstances when other tactics won’t fit. However, in states where they have been passed, they are increasingly becoming the routine mechanism of choice to impound firearms from gun owners put in the spotlight. For example, in Florida, where a seizure law was adopted in 2018, the law “has been applied more than 3,500 times,” the AP reports, noting that the pace of orders issued is “accelerating.” |
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As a result of the Governor’s public health directive related to COVID-19, the Governor’s Special Hunt Auction and Banquet scheduled for March 14, 2020 has been postponed.
