Hell has frozen over in Illinois

GrundleStiltzkin

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2020/03/22/gun-stores-essential-business-covid-19-lockdown-says-governor-illinois/

Over the next few weeks we’ll see some oddities and ironies in government response to the coronavirus pandemic, but perhaps none quite so odd and ironic as this. The state of Illinois has some of the toughest gun-control laws in the nation, and this crisis might have been seen by some as an opportunity to shut down the firearm trade. Instead, the shelter-in-place executive order issued by Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker specifically allows for gun stores to remain open and protected (via Instapundit):

Supplies for Essential Businesses and Operations. Businesses that sell, manufacture, or supply other Essential Businesses and Operations with the support or materials necessary to operate, including computers, audio and video electronics, household appliances; IT and telecommunication equipment; hardware, paint, flat glass; electrical, plumbing and heating material; sanitary equipment; personal hygiene products; food, food additives, ingredients and components; medical and orthopedic equipment; optics and photography equipment; diagnostics, food and beverages, chemicals, soaps and detergent; and firearm and ammunition suppliers and retailers for purposes of safety and security;

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Addendum: Speaking of unnecessary panic, it’s important to actually read through Pritzker’s order to understand just how little seems to be shut down. The EO lists a number of businesses and operations deemed essential by the state of Illinois, allowing them to remain in operation and people to leave their homes to access them. These include the obvious choices — grocery stores and pharmacies, gas stations, financial institutions, and so on — but “cannabis” is included in the second category of twenty-three categories of “essential” businesses and operations. Those are the private-sector categories, by the way; governmental operations are protected in a separate part of the EO.

Here are a few of the other “essentials” open for business operations :

• Charitable and social services
  
• The media
  
• Mechanics and bicycle shops
  
• Hardware and houseware stores
  
• Almost all trades
  
• Booze! (Unlike Pennsylvania)
  
• Laundry services
  
• Take-out service from restaurants
  
• Home-office supplies and services
  
• Uber, Lyft, rental cars, taxis, etc
  
• Real estate, insurance, and other professional services
  
• “Critical labor union functions,” natch
  
• Hotels and motels
  
• Funeral services
  

Read the order for the full listing of essential businesses and services. The list makes this look less like a lockdown and more of a narrowing down. Outside of entertainment venues and schools, most people will likely find that they still have access to most of their normal contacts … to the extent they want to exercise them.

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FRANNY

YellowSnow

What better place to go when you’re bored as fuck during social distancing than the gun shoppe. Hell, some folks might even decide to end their cabin fever.

GrundleStiltzkin

YellowSnow said:

What better place to go when you’re bored as fuck during social distancing than the gun shoppe. Hell, some folks might even decide to end their cabin fever.

Look what you have created Derek

YellowSnow

GrundleStiltzkin said:

YellowSnow said:

What better place to go when you’re bored as fuck during social distancing than the gun shoppe. Hell, some folks might even decide to end their cabin fever.

Look what you have created Derek

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