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Judge rules Virginia gun range can open amid virus closures
ABC7WJLA ^ | 04/27/2020 | AP

Posted on 04/27/2020 10:34:26 AM PDT by aimhigh

A judge has ruled that a Virginia gun range must be allowed to open to customers despite a statewide executive order requiring nonessential businesses to close to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

The order issued Monday by Lynchburg Circuit Judge F. Patrick Yeatts says federal and state protections on the right to bear arms outweigh any emergency authority held by Gov. Ralph Northam to order the gun range closed.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: banglist; virginia

1 posted on 04/27/2020 10:34:26 AM PDT by aimhigh
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To: aimhigh

LOL!! Excellent!!


2 posted on 04/27/2020 10:39:55 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: aimhigh

Been over a month since I went to the range.
I hope this applies statewide.


3 posted on 04/27/2020 10:54:13 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: aimhigh

Bingo !


4 posted on 04/27/2020 10:57:32 AM PDT by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Been over a month since I went to the range. I hope this applies statewide.

Country wide, Cuomo them down in NY, big surprise.

5 posted on 04/27/2020 11:00:03 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: aimhigh

MORE and MORE lawsuits will be coming forward!!! CLEAR VIOLATIONS of the CONSTITUTION abound in the USA..DOJ needs to get INVOLVED.


6 posted on 04/27/2020 11:00:15 AM PDT by Paul46360 (What??ME worry?)
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To: aimhigh

Northam apparently wants a “gun range” opened on the state capitol grounds.


7 posted on 04/27/2020 11:04:36 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Paul46360
"..DOJ needs to get INVOLVED..."


8 posted on 04/27/2020 11:08:31 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Our local range is a “club”. They never closed.


9 posted on 04/27/2020 11:10:45 AM PDT by wastoute (Anyone who believes PsyOps are not involved has never met a PsyOps Officer.)
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10 posted on 04/27/2020 11:17:07 AM PDT by PROCON (Molon Labe)
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To: aimhigh

It’s nice to see a judge follow the Constitution.


11 posted on 04/27/2020 11:18:31 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: aimhigh

But what about social distancing. Oh wait. I see. Those guns make a loud bang.


12 posted on 04/27/2020 11:36:38 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Lurkinanloomin

.....ditto.... our local range here in Central Texas
just re-opened this past Sat. with reduced hours -
noon to 6 p.m. ...now, if I can only remember where
I hid my 92FS ......


13 posted on 04/27/2020 11:36:54 AM PDT by TokarevM57
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To: aimhigh

Ruhagges in So-Cal is opening on the 1st (sporting clays) as I understand it. We’re still screwed in NM.


14 posted on 04/27/2020 12:11:49 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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