A federal judge has blocked part of an emergency order from New Mexico’s governor that sought to temporarily ban residents from carrying firearms in public in the state’s largest metro area.
The ruling on 13 September from US District Judge David Urias, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, follows a flurry of legal challenges seeking to reverse the order, issued just days earlier, that Democratic Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham enacted in response to a wave of gun violence in the state.
