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Urge Your State Senator John Sapien to Oppose Senate Bill 48

Bloomberg-Backed Restrictions Still Being Pushed By National Gun Control Groups!

Senate Bill 48, sponsored by State Senator Richard Martinez (D-Espanola), restricts the sale and transfer of your personally-owned firearms — even to people you know, such as non-immediate family members, friends, neighbors and co-workers.  SB 48 passed the Senate Public Affairs Committee and has been pending in the Senate Judiciary Committee since early February.

With three weeks left in session, New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg and out-of-state gun control organizations continue to push this measure every day at the Roundhouse in Santa Fe — and they won’t give up until the session gavels to a close on March 18. 

They have poured over a quarter of a million dollars into New Mexico to push for requirements that any or all private gun sales or transfers be conducted through a licensed firearms dealer.  This would involve extensive federal paperwork, a background check and payment of an undetermined fee.  This legislation is intrusive, ineffective and unenforceable without full gun registration — which is why all 33 New Mexico sheriffs oppose the measure.

In their desperation to pass anything, they continue proposing amendments to water-down their own bill in an effort to secure enough votes for it!  Please call and email your state Senator and urge opposition to any and all versions of SB 48, no matter how watered-down they might be.  Because the original version of this bill — a universal ban on ALL private firearms sales and temporary transfers — is what Bloomberg ultimately wants to pass.  And we cannot afford to let him get a foothold in the Land of Enchantment.   

Senator John Sapien
(505) 986-4301
john.sapien@nmlegis.gov

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