Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network about a piece that he had in the Washington Times about Governor Whitmer’s policies regarding the Coronavirus.
(Wednesday, April 8, 2020, from 8:35 to 8:45 AM)
Virginia Bill On the Governor’s Desk Makes It a Crime to Carry a Wide Range of Firearms on “any public street, road, alley, sidewalk, public right-of-way, or in any public park or any other place of whatever nature that is open to the public”
It is unlawful for any person to carry a loaded (i) semi-automatic center-fire rifle or pistol that expels single or multiple projectiles by action of an explosion of a combustible material and is (a) equipped at the time of the offense with a magazine that will hold...
There is nothing unclear about it. Her list of critical /essential services is based on the DHS critical infrastructure list dated March 19; firearm and ammo concerns were not added to that list until March 28. She made it clear that nothing included in guidance dated after the original list would be accepted. Therefore, her administration has declared anything related to firearms to be nonessential. Here it is from an email I received from the state: “… For purposes of this order, critical infrastructure workers are those workers described by the Director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in his guidance of March 19, 2020 on the COVID-19 response (available here). ***This order does not adopt any subsequent guidance document released by this same agency***, ” emphasis included in the original email.
The only question remaining at this time is when her administration will go on the offensive to actually enforce her order.