Coronavirus crackdowns causing friction as gun stores deemed 'nonessential businesses' [View all]

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As of Thursday, seven states in total – Delaware, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York and Washington -- have issued orders for gun dealers to close up shop for the foreseeable future, while 17 others have explicitly allowed them to stay open, albeit in some cases with customer and operating restrictions.

“What we don’t want to have happen are these kind of panic purchases like we’re seeing right now with first-time buyers,” Kris Brown, the president of the Brady Campaign. “We’ll get a vaccine for the coronavirus and this will all pass, but these guns will be still be in people’s homes.”