NM law OKs guns in some liquor-serving restaurants
Posted at: 03/10/2010 2:54 PM By: BARRY MASSEY, The Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - People licensed for concealed handguns can take their weapons into restaurants serving beer and wine under a new state law.
Gov. Bill Richardson signed the measure on Wednesday. It takes effect in July.
Even with the change, it will remain illegal to take a concealed weapons into a bar or a restaurant with a full liquor license.
Richardson ordered the Department of Public Safety to change its licensing regulations for concealed handguns to prohibit people from drinking alcohol while carrying their concealed weapon. The governor wants the Legislature to make that part of state law.
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Some people have been whining that they don't want to sit in a restaurant with their kids when people with guns are sitting near by. When I hear this, I point out that they already are! Those people are called criminals, and they don't care what the laws say. A perfect example is the Jackass who dropped his gat in the movie theater last year and it went off when it hit the floor and shot a woman in the foot. Those people are around all the time!!!
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Some people have been whining that they don't want to sit in a restaurant with their kids when people with guns are sitting near by. When I hear this, I point out that they already are! Those people are called criminals, and they don't care what the laws say. A perfect example is the Jackass who dropped his gat in the movie theater last year and it went off when it hit the floor and shot a woman in the foot. Those people are around all the time!!!
But they don't worry about that 2-5K pound car that the drunk is now driving! More people are killed by drunk drivers than law abiding gun owners.
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