SC sporting goods stores must close under coronavirus orders, unless they sell guns

postandcourier.com ^ | April 10, 2020 | Jessica Holdman 

[lowbridge]

Academy Sports is open. Todd and Moore in downtown Columbia is not.

Both are sporting goods stores, which are categorized as nonessential under Gov. Henry McMaster’s orders dictating which businesses must close to curb the spread of COVID-19 in South Carolina. But the one that sells guns can stay open.

That’s just one example of seeming discrepancies in what stores can keep their doors open amid the pandemic. 

The state Department of Commerce, tasked with providing guidance on business designations, has fielded nearly 4,650 questions, many of them duplicates, since April 4, just a couple days before the governors “home or work” order. In that time, nearly 250 entities were told they were non-essential and needed to close their doors to the public.

The Republican governor issued his most restrictive order on Monday that people stay home unless they’re going to work or shop at essential businesses, as well as some other exceptions.   

[lowbridge]

Uh oh.

[Jonty30]

I was just going to express my sympathy for Dick’s as well.

[glennaro]

Although the governor is not an M.D. it looks like he performed a vasectomy here.

[Bonemaker]

Beat me too it.

[Wilhelm Tell]

Was there ever a business more appropriately named?

[rellimpank]

——here in Nevada , the gun shops can stay open —but can’t offer classes in usage and safety—

[crusty old prospector]

Poor Lil Dickie Boy.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

Paging Nelson . . . paging Nelson . . .

Aisle 7 needs a “Ha Ha!!!”

[Pollster1]

That’s where my mind went as well. Those gun grabbers had more than a dozen stores in SC. I hope they all go under. Their treason more than justifies karma.

[CodeToad]

Just more proof this isn’t about a virus. It is about politics.

[Grey182]

Lol.

[RaceBannon]

[Savage Beast]

Has anyone notified Dick’s?

[Tailback]

You forgot your sarcasm tag. LOL! Oh the irony.

[Keyhopper]

We sell guns because we’re not Dick’s.