SANTE FE, New Mexico (PNN) - February 5, 2021 - A New Mexico Senator has filed a bill that would criminalize teaching your own children how to shoot a gun. Senator Antoinette Sedillo Lopez recently filed Senate Bill 224 (SB.224), which includes a whole slate of new unconstitutional gun control laws for New Mexico’s gun owners.

But in addition to the everyday gun control ideas like “safe” storage laws, Lopez’s bill says that New Mexico parents could be fined $1000 for allowing a child under 12 years old to “carry or be in control of” a firearm. Period.

For children who are 12 and older, the bill stipulates that parents may shoot with their children only after their children have taken a firearm safety course.

From the bill’s word: “A minor may be an authorized user only if the minor is at least twelve years of age and has successfully completed a firearm safety training course.”

Nobody knows what is contained in the firearm safety course.

Under this bill, you would not be allowed to let your child touch a gun until he or she is 12 years old and has taken a government gun safety course.

The State of New Mexico already has a law against “endangering” children, so why is this extra legislation necessary?

It’s not.

This is just the tyrannical government assuming ownership and control of gun owners’ children. Once again, the State pretends that it cares more about saving children than their own parent’s do - while making it legal for parents to murder their children in utero.

That’s the hypocrisy of the Left on full display.

But more than that, the radical Left knows if children don’t have those great memories of learning to shoot with their Grandpa or hunting with their Dad, they’re far less likely to care about owning a gun when they’re older. If they don’t own guns, they sure won’t fight for their gun rights.

In fact, if they’ve never held one and have no good memories with them, they’ll likely be filled with anti-gun propaganda that makes them afraid of guns.

Instead of loving and cherishing the Second Amendment, laws like this make our younger generation easy prey for radical anti-gun organizations in their schools and colleges.

New Mexico gun owners need to get involved, get organized, and start fighting for their gun rights.