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The New Mexico state senator’s bill would also require safe storage of firearms. (Photo: Sen. Sedillo Lopez Facebook)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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A new piece of legislation in New Mexico could criminalize parents and other adults for allowing children under the age of 12 to use their firearms at a gun range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Billed as a \u201csafe storage\u201d policy, the legislation (SB 224<\/a>) creates an \u201cauthorized user\u201d category, which it defines as \u201can individual who has been specifically granted permission to have access to the firearm.\u201d Minors may only be authorized users if they are at least 12 years old and have successfully passed a \u201cfirearm safety training course.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New Mexico Shooting Sports Association blasted the legislation in an article in the Pinon Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cstorage mandate\u201d in the bill \u201cwould make it a crime for a child to handle your firearm unless the child was 12 or older and had previously completed a firearms safety class. You would become a criminal for taking your child to go shooting if they had not previously taken some kind of formal class,\u201d the group said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe bill is an uneducated attempt to demonize firearms,\u201d they added. \u201cIt is already a crime to place a child in a situation that endangers their life, this law does nothing to add to a child\u2019s safety.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEE ALSO: When It Comes to Safe Storage Only the Gun Industry Puts Its Money Where Its Mouth Is<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, denied in an email to GunsAmerica that the legislation would prohibit children from shooting a firearm — as long as they were accompanied by their parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Teaching a child to use a gun would not be prohibited under this bill because the gun would be under the parent\u2019s control,” she said. “It would discourage a parent from authorizing a child under 12 use parents gun without supervision.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the bill’s language, firearms must remain in the “direct control” of the owner or authorized user if they are not in a locked container. The bill defines “direct control” as keeping a firearm “within an arm’s length of the firearm’s owner or other authorized person.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along with creating the \u201cauthorized user\u201d category, the legislation criminalizes gun owners who do not store their firearms in such a manner that they cannot be accessed or used by an unauthorized user. If the owner or authorized user \u201creasonably should have known\u201d that a minor, \u201cat-risk person,\u201d or prohibited person could have accessed the firearm, the owner or user will be subject to a misdemeanor charge and a fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEE ALSO: \u2018Enforce or Resign\u2019 Says New Mexico Governor to Sheriffs Regarding New Red Flag Law<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The legislation defines \u201cat-risk person\u201d as a person \u201cwho has made statements or exhibited behavior that indicates to a reasonable person there is a likelihood that the person is at risk of attempting suicide or causing physical harm to that person or others.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the minor, at-risk person, or prohibited person uses the firearm to commit a crime or injure another person, the owner could spend up to a year in jail or pay up to $1000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Sedillo Lopez is a staunch anti-gun activist who has been endorsed<\/a> by Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action. She recently re-tweeted a post from a supporter, saying, \u201cSurvivors inspire me!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Survivors inspire me! https:\/\/t.co\/AdloaR6Z3X<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Antoinette Sedillo Lopez (@ASL4Justice4all) February 3, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote> \n\n\n\n

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