According to Firearms Chronicles
While the Covid-19 virus is ugly all on its own, the worst impact may still be the stupidity sweeping the nation. It’s also giving local and state-level tin-pot dictators all the justification they need to start shutting down businesses that have nothing at all to do with anything.
You see, it’s questionable at best for them to shut down bars, restaurants, and theaters, but at least a case can be made that such places make it easier for the disease to spread.
But gun stores? Gas stations? Liquor stores?
Those have no impact on the virus to speak of. While it’s possible to get the disease at any of those places, it’s just as possible to get it at your local grocery store on chatting with your neighbor over the backyard fence.
Yet simply facts won’t stop some city leaders in Illinois from trying to shut all three of those down.
Municipal officials throughout the state are considering measures to grant local leaders emergency powers to ban the sale of things such as guns, gasoline and liquor as concerns over the spread of COVID-19 mount.
Last week, President Donald Trump wrote in a letter: “I have determined that the ongoing Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant an emergency determination under … the ‘Stafford Act’.” The move allows local and state governments to get assistance from the federal government. It also gives more powers to the federal government to manage declared emergencies. …
Also last week, Champaign city officials unanimously approved a resolution giving the city the ability to, among other things, halt the sale of weapons and gasoline, and close businesses including liquor establishments, ration supplies, compel evacuations and cut off utilities.