Feds Think Gun Stores Should Remain Open | Eastern NC Now

Stephen Gutowski of the Washington Free Beacon highlights a recent federal change involving gun stores.

ENCNow
Publisher's note: The author of this post is Mitch Kokai for the John Locke Foundation.

    Stephen Gutowski of the Washington Free Beacon highlights a recent federal change involving gun stores.

  • The Department of Homeland Security added gun dealers, ranges, and manufacturers to its essential business coronavirus-response guide on Saturday.
  • The updated guidance from DHS's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) now considers "workers supporting the operation of firearm or ammunition product manufacturers, retailers, importers, distributors, and shooting ranges" to be essential. Those industry workers are listed under the designation for "law enforcement, public safety, and other first responders."
  • The change comes after some state and local officials have shut down gun stores and manufacturing plants around the country. The federal guidelines could influence how state and local officials implement lockdown orders moving forward. Demand for firearms has skyrocketed in response to the uncertainty surrounding the global pandemic, even as shutdowns in some states have closed the only legal avenue for purchases. Some officials cited the lack of DHS guidance to defend those closures.
  • The National Shooting Sports Foundation, the firearms industry's trade group, requested the essential designation in a March 20th letter to DHS. The group praised the updated DHS guidance as "crucial."

Go Back


Leave a Guest Comment

Your Name or Alias
Your Email Address ( your email address will not be published )
Enter Your Comment ( text only please )




Pondering a Trump Quarantine John Locke Foundation Guest Editorial, Editorials, Op-Ed & Politics Medicare for All and the Coronavirus


HbAD0

Latest Op-Ed & Politics

fortunately this travesty has not yet come to Beaufort County, but it has in Virginia
now Fauci should be indicted for his previous lies under oath to Congress
Queen Garris has made a post on the Beaufort County GOP site that you should read. It is disloyal to conservative candiates key in the following: https://www.Facebook.Com/beaufortcountygop
another reason we need the SAVE America Act that Democrat politicians fear
Throughout the evening, the fireworks and other program events competed with uncooperative weather.

HbAD1

spending spree came from deceptively named "Inflation Reduction Act"
follows up on mass anti-immigration riots in Belfast, Northern Ireland

HbAD2

“Neville Singham has been a mechanism and funding arm of the Chinese Communist Party.”
illegal alien "asylum seeker" migrants are a crime wave on both sides of the Atlantic
wrongful stops and possible people tacking including cell phones

HbAD3


HbAD4

 
 
Back to Top