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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.”

He said that the Albuquerque Public Schools system has caught students bringing guns to school 10 times this academic year.

Baker was one speaker in a daylong series of panel discussions that ranged from the challenges

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