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Gov. signs safe gun storage bill into law
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By Robert Nott, The Santa Fe New Mexican
With three bullets in her body, Alexis Molina said she could think of only two things as she heard the sound of pistol shots all around her in the library. She prayed — and held her little brother Noah close to her bleeding body as she told him to play dead. Molina was one of the victims in a 2017 shooting at a Clovis library that left two women dead and Molina and her brother, among others, wounded.
The teen shooter was believed to have accessed the handguns from his home. Molina was present Tuesday when Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed House Bill 9, a gun safety storage bill intended to keep guns out of the hands of children and teens. The legislation would create two crimes: negligently making a firearm accessible to a minor who brandishes it or uses it to threaten someone, a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail; and negligently making a firearm accessible to a minor resulting in great bodily harm or death, a fourth-degree felony carrying an 18-month prison term.