Gun bill introduced in NM legislature

From KOB-TV.com - By: Stuart Dyson, KOB Eyewitness News 4-While President Obama discussed his goals for nationwide gun legislation, New Mexico lawmakers got their first peek at a gun control bill on the state level.
House Bill 77, sponsored by Rep. Miguel Garcia of Bernalillo County's South Valley, is aimed at requiring background checks for people who buy firearms at gun shows and in private deals. Currently, those sales do not require background checks in New Mexico. If it passes, gun show sellers and private sellers would have to run a background check on their buyers through a phone system that would be set up by the state Department of Public Safety.  Buyers who are listed as felons, fugitives from the law, or people who have been judged mentally ill would be ineligible to buy guns.
President Obama is pushing for something similar nationwide. KOB Eyewitness News 4 found some gun owners open to the idea. "The background check is one thing I wouldn't mind," said Logan Sherwood of Farmington, shopping at Albuquerque's popular Calibers gun store and indoor shooting range. "I can pass a background check. If you buy a firearm you should be able to pass a background check. We don't want criminals - felons."
But some other key parts of the President's gun control package aren't popular with gun people, especially banning assault-style weapons and limiting ammo clips to ten rounds. "It really is not going to solve the problem," said Calibers shopper David DiRusso. "The problem is to stop criminals, not the law-abiding citizen. It's just not right."
The owners of Calibers said they support improved background checks, but they said the real problem is unauthorized access to firearms by people who are not legally qualified to have them.Read more

Gun bill introduced in NM legislature

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Homeowner suffers fourth accident into wall

From KOB-TV.com By: Jill Galus, KOB Eyewitness News 4- n Albuquerque homeowner can't figure out why cars keep crashing through the wall behind her house. It has happened four times, which prompts the question, is there some sort of safety problem there or is the homeowner just really unlucky?
You don't have to look hard to see exactly where the car came crashing through the cement wall near Juan Tabo and Montgomery. This pile of debris is made up of broken up cinder blocks and chunks of the vehicle.
But believe it or not, homeowner Shirley Reynolds said, this is the fourth time her wall is going to be replaced, for a similar bizarre situation. "It looks terrible, ha ha, it's a great big hole in the wall," Reynolds said.
Reynolds is still in disbelief. "They even knocked down that tree, always said we had too many trees," Reynolds said. She feels all too familiar to the pile of rubble.
"One time it was by the bedroom window, then it was a BMW that came right here, then another time we were out of town," Reynolds said, as she showed KOB Eyewitness News 4 where the other crashes happened along the same wall over the past year.
This latest crash marks the fourth time the cement wall has crumbled after a car crashed through it.
"Somebody hit them, knocked them, and spun them around, and that's how they ended up in our yard," Reynolds said. Her property is now infamously known among neighbors.
"They say, 'Oh yeah, I know you're the house that always... Yeah, that's right, our house is always the one people are always running into,'" Reynolds said.  "I'm just afraid that one of these days somebody is going to be sitting out there in the backyard on the swing and somebody is going to get hurt."
The wall faces Juan Tabo.  A sidewalk separates the wall from the street.
KOB checked with the city and was told there is nothing that would indicate the stretch of road there is problematic. The speed limit is 40 mph, which the city said, is reasonable for the area.Read more

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Jemez Pueblo in land dispute

Leaders of Jemez Pueblo in northern New Mexico are seeking the return of all land within the boundaries of the 89,000-acre Valles Caldera National Preserve, citing the area as a "spiritual sanctuary" and part of their traditional homeland. 

Jemez Pueblo filed a lawsuit in federal court last summer to establish its aboriginal right to ownership of the property, and the pueblo has gained the support of tribes throughout New Mexico. 

The lawsuit describes the preserve as the "Jemez Holy Land." 

The U.S. attorney's office is expected to file the government's response in federal court next month.

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Santa Fe mayor joins gun lobby organization

Santa Fe Mayor David Coss is supporting a national campaign aimed at lobbying Congress for federal gun control reforms. 

Coss and Police Chief Raymond Rael held a news conference Monday to announce their support. Coss says he also plans to travel to Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to lobby with other mayors. 

More than 800 mayors across the nation belong to the organization called "Mayors Against Illegal Guns." The group is pushing for criminal background checks on all gun sales, including private sales and sales at gun shows. 

They're also seeking renewal of a national ban on the sale of assault-style rifles and high-capacity magazines.

Santa Fe mayor joins gun lobby organization

NM legislature convenes today

Gov Martinez

New Mexico's lawmakers are returning to work and will hear from Republican Gov. Susana Martinez on the opening day of the 60-day session. 

The Legislature convenes at noon today. 

The governor will deliver her state of the state address to a joint session of the House and Senate. Martinez plans to outline her legislative agenda, which includes a reduction in the corporate tax rate, early childhood reading initiatives as well as several proposals that the Democratic-controlled Legislature has rejected in the past.

Martinez is renewing her effort to stop the state from granting driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants — a proposal that's stalled in the Legislature since the governor took office in 2011.

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