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Ask when the govt agents and their families need ammo or weapons.
Then extend the answer to all of us who need to do their own self-defense.
Our local range, Reno Guns & Range, set they are essentialin sales, service, parts, and ammo. They closed the range side down for recreational shooting, only allowing safety and function checks, plus qualifications (police, etc.). Sales are handled curbside. I think they are only gun shop open in Reno.
Well, ammo certainly is. And for repairs those stores are essential certainly is. Hunting is allowed during “stay at home” order periods.
By the way, it seems that over 75% of all employees are “essential”.
If you’re a small person stalked by a larger person upset that you rebuffed all their sexual advances then gun shops are literally a life or death necessity.
It doesn’t help you one damned bit if they track the person down after they kill you...and that is the entirety of what a restraining order does for you.
Liberals and “THE DONOR CLASS” are buying guns...Some for the first time.
So the answer is ....Yes....They are essential.
Even in California.
Not if you own plenty.
I am opposed to this whole “essential” vs. “non-essential” rationale.
To the owner and employees, every business is essential.
Is Nancy Pelosi,Chuck Schumer or Adam Schiff essential?
The government can no more say that Gun Stores are non-essential, than Britain could say that Powder boxes, muskets and cannon were non-essential.
Mayor Garcetti announces water and power will be shut off for nonessential L.A. businesses that dont close
[Yeah, totally “just the flu.”]
[And who determines “essential?”]
In NYC, a large percentage of the police force is calling in sick.
If things get jiggy, you’re on your own.
I doubt I’ll need a gun shop for the rest of my life - the current crop in the “silo” will see me through...