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What has gun ownership to do with Coronavirus?

Quite a bit.

Because we are seeing severe disruptions of food supply in supermarkets stripped of food, people are naturally worried that if it gets worse hungry people will go house-to-house to find food. That's when you realize: maybe I should have a gun! (Even though you've always been an anti-gun LibTard).

From the Public Health point of view: for the same reason that they are closing restaurants, if the most crowded store in town in the Gun Store the authorities can at least plausibly claim it's for everyone's good because of the virus. (This might be a pretext, of course).

From a legal point of view, having read about 4 or 5 different state and local ordinances, they are all structured like this:

The chief executive may declare a state of emergency when needed and then:
• Institute a curfew.
• Prohibit or limit the size of gatherings.
• Shut down streets and other areas to traffic.
• Require people to evacuate.
• Suspend commercial activity.
• Redirect city funds for emergency purposes.
• Shut off utility services.
• Prohibit the sale of alcohol, gasoline, weapons and explosives.

So, seeing as they are already invoking a "State of Emergency", if they are an unscupulous LibTard mayor, county executive, or governor (and aren't all 'tards unscrupulous be definition) -- then it's perfectly legal for them to throw in the prohibition on sale of guns.

Despite this, even in places where a legal State of Emergency has been declared- like Washington State, the Governor has been very circumspect in how he uses his powers and his not (so far) closed gun stores.

You'll not a lot of the articles about this say "The law *permits* the Governor (or mayor, or ...) to ban gun sales, but I haven't seen any where they have actually Invoked that power and used it.

But, maybe they have somewhere.

I see two strategies going foward from here: <1>Get the laws that give this power to mayors ammended after this event, so that they no longer can ban gun sales, not matter what type of emergency they have.

And, a second MUCH MORE FUN IDEA! We need to start arguing for "remote gun buying laws" and "buy from home" laws for firearms, so that we can get guns as safely as we get stuff from Amazon when the other types of stores are closed.

It's a sacrifice the 'tards just have to make, to keep us all safe, they need to repeal and replace the 1968 gun control act, which made mail-order deliver of common guns illegal. It's just too risky with coronavirus out there to keep that antiquated law around any longer.