New Mexico Law Banning Guns in Parks Thwarts Attempted Challenge

A district court order blocking a New Mexico public health order that bars firearms in public parks must be overturned since the plaintiff lacks standing to challenge the statute, a federal appeals court said Wednesday.

“A party invoking our jurisdiction must show an actual ‘personal, particularized injury,’ and not just an artificially manufactured one so that we remain in our properly limited role of deciding ‘cases’ or ‘controversies,’” said the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in an order and judgment.

The Tenth Circuit reversed a district court’s preliminary injunction enjoining the order banning firearms in public ...