New Mexico governor suspends the right to carry firearms in public in Albuquerque

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) signed an emergency order on Friday that will bar firearms from being carried in public in Albuquerque.

Grisham said she was compelled to act due to a series of shootings in the city, including one that killed an 11-year-old boy outside a baseball game this week and a group of targeted shootings against Muslim men last month.

The motion, using an emergency health order, bans concealed and open carry firearms in all public places in areas with a specific violent crime threshold — one that only been met by the city of Albuquerque. Police and security are exempt from the ban.

“I welcome the debate and fight about how to make New Mexicans safer,” Lujan Grisham said at a news conference Friday.