{"data":{"id":"us-nm/30-7-3.1","jurisdiction":"us-nm","citation":"30-7-3.1","heading":"Unlawful possession of a weapon conversion device; penalty.","body":"A. Unlawful possession of a weapon conversion device consists of a person knowingly having in that person's possession an unlawfully obtained weapon conversion device or knowingly transporting an unlawfully obtained weapon conversion device.\nB. A person who commits unlawful possession of a weapon conversion device is guilty of a third degree felony.\nC. As used in this section:\n(1) \"fully automatic weapon\" means a weapon that shoots, is designed to shoot automatically or can be readily restored to fire more than one cartridge or shell, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger;\n(2) \"semiautomatic weapon\" means a repeating rifle, shotgun or pistol, regardless of barrel or overall length, that uses a portion of the energy of a firing cartridge or shell to extract the fired cartridge case or spent shell and chamber the next round and that requires a separate function of the trigger to fire each cartridge or shell; and\n(3) \"weapon conversion device\" means a part or combination of parts designed and intended to convert a semiautomatic weapon into a fully automatic weapon.","path":["Chapter 30 - Criminal Offenses","ARTICLE 7 Weapons and Explosives"],"source_url":"https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa-unanno/en/item/18530/index.do","current_through":"2026-07-01","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T15:02:19Z","sha256":"0e6516d645a72fcb9e71a50cf7e0fe9f18fd7377d43fa83a8465e8d91a416411","source_id":"us-nm","stale":false,"prev":"us-nm/30-7-3","next":"us-nm/30-7-4"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}