What is striking about this effort is the short specified period. By setting a 30-day period, the Governor makes it difficult to secure a final decision. She could face a preliminary injunction in that time. However, if she gets a sympathetic trial judge, the time could run out before a final ruling can be secured on appeal. In any case, it makes it less likely that the case can be taken to the Supreme Court or even through the federal court system. …

Even if an injunction is secured on the basis of a presumptively unconstitutional act, many will of course celebrate the boldness of Grisham in taking away an individual right under a clever measure. It is, however, too clever by half. If a court decides that this is not moot at the end of the period, New Mexico could supply a vehicle to curtail future such claims.

We have seen how Democratic strongholds have proven the greatest assets for gun-rights advocates. Major Democratic cities are delivering lasting self-inflicted wounds to gun control efforts with poorly conceived and poorly drafted measures.

[This is nothing more than a desperate attempt to avoid what *really* works to reduce crime — aggressive prosecution and imprisonment, “broken windows” policing, and an educational system that focuses on children rather than on the social-justice agendas of the adults in Academia and the teachers’ unions. Lujan Grisham should be removed from office for violating her oath to uphold the Constitution, but other should be removed for incompetence and dereliction of duty. — Ed]