Overview

• U.S. District Court Judge Kea Riggs upheld her decision to block portions of a public health order from New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham that aimed to suspend the right to carry firearms in many public parks in the Albuquerque area.
• Judge Riggs denied the governor's request to maintain a temporary ban on firearms in certain public places in greater Albuquerque, including most public parks.
• The judge's decision is based on the lack of historical tradition of banning firearms in public parks or similar areas in the past.
• Gov. Lujan Grisham, a second-term Democrat, invoked the emergency orders last year in response to a spate of gun violence including the fatal shooting of an 11-year-old boy outside a minor league baseball stadium.
• Gun rights advocates are also urging the New Mexico Supreme Court to block the orders.