The governor’s Senior Public Safety Adviser Benjamin Baker and Angel Alire with the advocacy group Repeat Offenders Bring Devastation and Death addressed Republican members of the Public Safety Legislative Task Force on Dec. 1, 2025. (Joshua Bowling/Source NM)
A child or teenager will be arrested and charged with possessing a firearm on three out of four days in New Mexico, the governor’s senior public safety adviser said Monday.
“That number is way too high,” Benjamin Baker, senior public safety adviser to Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham told Republican members on the New Mexico GOP’s Public Safety Legislative Task Force. “Work needs to be done to address what is happening with that age creep and violence related to our juvenile offenders.”…