PracticalTactical
Regular Member
Let me sum up simply
Let me sum this up more clearly, now that I'm over the initial pissed off phase:
They are concerned, for whatever reason, about NM residents carrying in NM on non-NM permits/licenses. I get that.
They pushed the legislature to change the law to require NM residents to get NM permits if they want to carry in NM. Legislature didn't do it.
Instead of respecting the law, they found a way to reinterpret the law to make ALL out of state permits invalid, and then say they only intend to enforce this interpretation against NM residents.
But they could, in theory, enforce it against anybody they wanted to. So, instead of rule of law, we have rule of men (with guns). This is NEW Mexico, not Mexico. We can't put up with this kind of behavior out of people in government if we want a good society.
If I were from out of state carrying on my home state permit, this would concern me, knowing that technically I could be arrested for carrying at any time and that if I am in a place that sells alcohol it could be a felony arrest. If I were an official in a state that recognizes New Mexico, I might reconsider a reciprocity agreement until NM decided they wanted to fully and safely recognize permits from my state.
I can understand that they want NM residents to get 15 hours of training, but if they want to go about that they need to obey the law like the rest of us instead of changing the rules mid-game on a technicality to get what they want but the legislature wouldn't give them.
The cost of doing this kind of thing illegitimately is too high. The risks of doing this sort of thing far outweigh any public safety benefit that might be gained from allowing this sort of thing to go on.
Let me sum this up more clearly, now that I'm over the initial pissed off phase:
They are concerned, for whatever reason, about NM residents carrying in NM on non-NM permits/licenses. I get that.
They pushed the legislature to change the law to require NM residents to get NM permits if they want to carry in NM. Legislature didn't do it.
Instead of respecting the law, they found a way to reinterpret the law to make ALL out of state permits invalid, and then say they only intend to enforce this interpretation against NM residents.
But they could, in theory, enforce it against anybody they wanted to. So, instead of rule of law, we have rule of men (with guns). This is NEW Mexico, not Mexico. We can't put up with this kind of behavior out of people in government if we want a good society.
If I were from out of state carrying on my home state permit, this would concern me, knowing that technically I could be arrested for carrying at any time and that if I am in a place that sells alcohol it could be a felony arrest. If I were an official in a state that recognizes New Mexico, I might reconsider a reciprocity agreement until NM decided they wanted to fully and safely recognize permits from my state.
I can understand that they want NM residents to get 15 hours of training, but if they want to go about that they need to obey the law like the rest of us instead of changing the rules mid-game on a technicality to get what they want but the legislature wouldn't give them.
The cost of doing this kind of thing illegitimately is too high. The risks of doing this sort of thing far outweigh any public safety benefit that might be gained from allowing this sort of thing to go on.
