Before drifting off into conspiracy territory, know that New Mexico has had this law since 1990. No prosecutions, but it kept a number of domestic extremist groups from buying more land (several had started as other states criminalized exactly the same thing, leaving NM as a low-cost option) in the hinterlands and war-gaming against ZOG, One World Order, and other paranoid fantasies. In one circumstance I know of personally, we were getting reports of nighttime automatic weapons fire south of Bluewater Lake and later recovered discarded military items and trash as well as hundreds of fired 7.62x39, 5.56, and 7.62 NATO cases. The group didn't like our scrutiny and just evaporated.
Here's the 34 year-old NM law's most important part:
30-20A-3. Unlawful acts; penalty.
A. Any person who teaches or demonstrates the use, application or making of any firearm, destructive device or technique capable of causing injury or death to any person with the intent that the knowledge or skill taught, demonstrated or gained be unlawfully used in furtherance of a civil disorder is guilty of a fourth degree felony and shall be sentenced under the provisions of the Criminal Sentencing Act [Chapter 31, Article 18 NMSA 1978] to imprisonment for a definite term of eighteen months or, in the discretion of the sentencing court, to a fine of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000), or both.
B. Any person who trains, practices or receives instruction in the use of any firearm, destructive device or technique capable of causing injury or death to any person with the intent that the knowledge or skill taught, demonstrated or gained be unlawfully used in furtherance of a civil disorder is guilty of a fourth degree felony and shall be sentenced under the provisions of the Criminal Sentencing Act to imprisonment for a definite term of eighteen months or, in the discretion of the sentencing court, to a fine of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000), or both.
History: Laws 1990, ch. 66, § 3.
