ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Restrictions on carrying weapons in public which are tied to an emergency public well being order are going below the authorized microscope Tuesday in New Mexico, the place the Democratic governor is testing the boundaries of her authority and constitutional legislation in response to violent crime within the state’s largest metro space.

The standoff is one among many within the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court docket choice final 12 months increasing Gun Rights, as leaders in politically liberal-leaning states discover new avenues for restrictions.

A courtroom listening to is scheduled for the morning on authorized challenges to the general public well being order from Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham that suspends the fitting to hold firearms in most public parks and playgrounds in and round Albuquerque.

Advocates for gun rights have filed a barrage of challenges to the 30-day well being order, which initially included broad restrictions on carrying weapons in public.

The governor will reissue orders on gun violence and drug abuse for an extra 30 days, Lujan Grisham spokeswoman Maddy Hayden mentioned Monday. She mentioned the pressing method is spurring arrests and reining in gunfire. The orders embody directives for month-to-month inspections of firearms sellers statewide, experiences on gunshot victims at New Mexico hospitals and wastewater testing for illicit substances.

U.S. District Decide David Urias dominated final month that gun restrictions within the governor’s authentic order had been prone to trigger irreparable hurt to individuals disadvantaged of the fitting to hold a gun in public for self-defense and granted a short lived restraining order blocking it till Tuesday’s listening to.

The governor has tied the suspension of some gun rights to a statistical threshold for violent crime that utilized solely to Albuquerque and the encircling space.

Urias mentioned in a current courtroom submitting that restrictions on gun exercise at playgrounds and different locations the place kids play “may very well be constitutional.”

State police briefly would have authority below the order to evaluate civil penalties and fines of as much as $5,000 for infractions. The sheriff and Albuquerque’s police chief had refused to implement it.

The order has energized advocates for gun rights, together with Republican lawmakers who’ve threatened impeachment proceedings in opposition to Lujan Grisham.

Some influential Democrats and civil rights leaders warn that the governor’s transfer may do extra hurt than good to total efforts to ease gun violence, and the Democratic state lawyer common has urged her to rethink.

Different states together with California, Washington, Colorado and Maryland have handed gun legal guidelines this 12 months that face authorized challenges.

Final week California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed almost two dozen gun management measures, together with ones banning the carrying of firearms in most public locations whereas doubling taxes on weapons and ammunition gross sales.

Newsom has acknowledged a few of the gun measures may not survive within the courts. Final month a federal decide struck down a state legislation banning weapons with removable magazines that carry greater than 10 rounds.

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