According to Firearm Chronicles
New Mexico is an interesting place to watch right about now. Despite warnings from a large number of their county sheriffs, the legislature passed a red flag law just the same. These sheriffs have already vowed not to enforce these blatantly unconstitutional laws and for good reason. They swore to support and defend the Constitution, but they’re also answerable to the people of their counties.
They’re not about to back something like this.
However, in an op-ed, we have blatant hypocrisy on display as the writer argues these sheriffs should resign if they can’t enforce unconstitutional laws.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the “Extreme Risk Firearm Protection Order Act” also known as a “red flag” law. She said that any elected county sheriff who refuses to enforce the law should resign.
They should. …
Given New Mexico’s high suicide rates, domestic violence killings and the threat of mass shootings, it is shameful elected county sheriffs are more concerned about “Second Amendment rights” believing anyone, including those who pose a harm to themselves and others, should have the right to a firearm of their choosing. Elected sheriffs hide behind the Second, Fourth and 14th amendments so as not to protect or enforce the rights of others who have the rights of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” guaranteed as much under the Constitution as the right to bear arms.