States were closing gun shops. Activists turned to the White House.

[demmiblue]

After two weeks of phone calls, emails and lobbying, gun rights groups got the Trump administration to define a gun shop as an “essential business.”

Long lines were forming outside gun shops. Ammunition was selling out. The national background check system was flooded with requests.

The gun industry wanted to keep it that way, even as governors started ordering nonessential businesses closed during the coronavirus outbreak. And it knew just where it could turn: the White House.

After a lobbying blitz that included calls to both the outgoing and incoming chiefs of staff and a White House aide who used to work for the National Rifle Association, the administration revised its initial guidelines and declared gun stores and shooting ranges to be critical businesses that can stay open during the outbreak — putting them on par with hospitals, grocery stores and pharmacies.

The change has already prompted one state to reverse its previous order and reopen gun stores.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/01/gun-stores-states-white-house-coronavirus-157543

[MiniMe]

1. Well good

Maybe they will kill each other with the virus.

[Progressive Jones]

2. The Ammosexual Lobby, hard at work.

It seems to me that those who drool for the gun shops to be open
would already have quite an arsenal of pussy protection on hand.