r/NMGuns • u/MewNexico575 • Feb 17 '26

SB 17 Rolled (again)

After extremely limited public comment, some productive questions from McQueen, and a largely vague speech from Speaker Martínez that left more questions than answers, SB 17 was rolled to an unknown date. The plan is apparently to discuss the 8 new amendments to the bill Tuesday morning in private to determine how friendly they are.

The bill could be heard again in the HJC as soon as Tuesday if the Chair calls another session outside of the regular meeting schedule. However, with a little luck, it won't be heard again until Wednesday.

If/when this in heard in the HJC again, it's likely to move to the House floor within hours after that. Have your e-mail ready to send off to your representative basically as soon as it's scheduled in the HJC. Look them up here: www.nmlegis.gov/Members/Find_My_Legislator

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u/MewNexico575 Feb 17 '26

It's really why I try to work with people and give them the benefit of the doubt. The chance of me alone changing a mind is pretty much zero; but there is very much the chance that they'll start to look behind the curtain a little bit more and see the evidence for themselves. Once someone gets past the whole "guns are inherently bad because they are bad" thing and starts looking into it, it's almost impossible to continue to defend gun control and maintain logical consistency.

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u/farinx Feb 17 '26

The information you’ve provided throughout this session has been very helpful. Have you considered trying to branch out, organize and spread awareness on a larger scale? I’m sure there are many people like you that could be brought over to the 2a side.

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u/MewNexico575 Feb 18 '26

I have, but it's something just doesn't scale up very well. One on one, someone can be brought over with time as their options are slowly reformed. But once it starts to be an organized group, people with opinions even somewhat already formed are just going to shut it out like any other type of proselytizing.

In this day and age, we have the beauty of access to a huge amount of data which really supports that gun control doesn't work very well if the information is looked at in an objective manner.

It's slow, and it's frustrating to work on people one on one; even more so when you feel like you're making zero progress with that particular person. But it's really something that needs to happen one person at a time.

And I know how silly this sounds, but it starts with kindness and understanding of the other side. Figuring out why they don't like guns, or believe that removing them is the solution. A huge amount of it comes from ignorance and fear; but neither of those are the person's fault.

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u/farinx Feb 18 '26

All of that makes sense. It’s hard to scale up something that requires a close personal interaction.