Some Residents Up In Arms After Ruidoso Mayor Bans Guns

[ProgressiveProfessor]

RUIDOSO, N.M. -- Some Ruidoso residents are upset over a mayor's recent executive order banning guns on village property.

KRQE-TV reported that residents plan to voice their outrage at a city council meeting today over an order issued by Mayor Ray Alborn banning firearms from village buildings except for law enforcement. They called the order illegal.
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Alborn said the village attorney assures him he has the right to make the executive order.
In 1986, New Mexico residents voted to amend the state constitution forbidding local regulation of firearms.
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More here: http://www.kvia.com/news/29169518/detail.html

Original Order: (Could not find it on the Village site)

Clarification by the Village Mayor: http://www.ruidoso-nm.gov/VillageClerk-Exec/Pdf_Documents/Press%20Release%20Weapons%20in%20Village%20Buildings.pdf

More media coverage: http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/local/southeast/citizens-argue-mayor%27s-ban-on-guns
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This is boiling down to violation of the state preemption clause in New Mexico. Unlike Florida there are not enough teeth in that law for the Mayor to feel it personally if he is indeed wrong.

I have not found any details about the incident that precipitated this.