Just a few minutes ago Kansas issued a statewide stay-home order, but it specifically designates manufacture and selling of firearms and ammunition as an essential activity, allowing those activities to continue. They seem to doing that under the idea of protecting a Constitutional right.
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Pretty much how I feel about Florida. In every respect.
Here in Kansas I did see a news report this evening that Missouri was trying to close Bass Pro in Kansas City because some health official thought it was not safe for people to be buying guns now. Our Cabelas here is open but appears to be doing some health screening at the door. Truth be told, the official order issued by the Kansas governor is so full of holes and exceptions that you can do most anything you want. To quote Bill Murray in Ghostbusters, "It's not really a rule, it's more of a guideline."
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The Texas Attorney General ruled that gun stores cannot be closed by counties or municipalities, so gun shops are open in Texas! Some are closing on their own but that may be a personal/management decision.
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Sounds like a good compromise to let them be open but encourage curbside service or giving out numbers to keep people more spaced out. You have a to buy a gun but also a reasonable expectation to not get coronovirus sneezed onto you while doing it.
To each their own. The PD in my post is Hollywood Park, a landlocked portion inside the greater San Antonio city limits. I haven't heard of any similar action by SAPD or Bexar County Sheriff's Department.
I can't think of any other US city with population over 1 million people with the great access to medical services for veterans and civilians alike, with as few restrictions (and better general traffic flow). We were able to purchase a house in a decent neighborhood within a 10 minute drive to where my wife began working when we relocated here. Latest news estimates Bexar County to have population greater than 2 million based on early responses to the 2020 census.
Austin, even with lower official population, is nothing like this. I've only once been interested in possibility living in Austin. That was in the early 1980' due to a particular female going to UT at that time (and my interest did me no good). Austin has always declined as a place I'd be interested in living, and even visiting. I visited one of my nieces there in 2016 and glad she moved back to the Houston area after she got her fill of what Austin is.
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I can't think of a better reason that that for me to have absolutely no interest in even being close to the place, much less live there. That's only slightly less than half the entire population of my state and fortunately the huge majority of the state's population lives in the Rio Grande Corridor which is a considerable distance from me. Bexar County's population is only 100,000 people less than live in my entire state.
I agree with you about to each his own and my own is not living amidst a huge number of people. I can drive 30 miles, get off the main highway, and chances are I'll never encounter another person until I return to a highway.
Most of this thread has nothing to do with gun stores staying open...
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