Virginia’s Democrat Attorney General Mark Herring has triumphantly announced that he blocked the Nation’s Gun Show at the monstrous Dulles Expo Center from operating at full capacity.
🚨BREAKING🚨I have successfully BLOCKED a massive gun show from operating at full capacity this weekend in NOVA.
Putting hundreds or even thousands of Virginians at risk for the sole purpose of selling guns is just not worth it and I’m pleased that the Judge agreed with me.
— Mark Herring (@MarkHerringVA) November 19, 2020
Before his virtue-signaling tweet, Herring secured a partial victory by persuading a judge that sweeping restrictions were necessary at this weekend’s Northern Virginia gun show to prevent it from becoming a superspreader event. The Commonwealth’s top law enforcement officer hoped that the judge would have scrapped the gun show altogether, claiming it had the potential to infect thousands with Covid-19.
Constitutionally-minded plaintiffs, including a gun show promoter and firearms dealer, filed a legal challenge asking the court to consider the “concrete harms” to their livelihoods and businesses. Herring called their arguments “brazenly misinformed.”
WUSA has more on the developments in the legal battle over pandemic restrictions:
Organizers of the Nation’s Gun Show, Showmaster’s Inc., expressed frustrations that these new restrictions from Northam came only a week before their event started.
“The show takes months to put together and it is too late for a notice for most of these businesses to recoup their losses. It will cause irreparable damage to all involved from the building, auxiliary businesses, the exhibitors, the promoter, the hotel, convenience stores, restaurants, and the strip mall,” Showmasters, Inc. said in a statement on its website about the lawsuit filed.
There will be a hearing about the gun show at 10 a.m. on Thursday, according to Herring’s office. Due to the emergency hearing’s timing, this will likely be the deciding moment on whether the gun show can take place.
Showmaster’s, Inc. promotes social distancing on its website, and said that it is scaling back the number of tables it has at its show to 900 to accommodate Northam’s executive order.
Organizers of the Nation’s Gun Show hoped to have 25,000 attendees this weekend. The event takes place multiple times per year.
Herring’s proclamation provoked a fierce and immediate reaction:
Absurd. They require masks, distancing (it’s a giant space) and limited capacity like any store. And it’s not just guns, you’re shutting down dozens of small businesses that operate rely on this to feed their families.
Would you be doing this if it weren’t a gun show?
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) November 19, 2020
If it was for abortion you’d be singing a different tune
— RIP Stinky T. Cat (@stinkytcat1) November 19, 2020
The backlash comes as a bevy of Democrat governors issue increasingly harsh Covid-19 restrictions ahead of Thanksgiving.
I bet liquor and cigarette stores and abortion clinics (always the racist Dem) killing all the beautiful black babies and strip clubs are at full capacity. And those creepy men driving around in seedy neighborhoods hiring the girl on the corner will not social distance. Love how the Dems are so transparent yet can’t see through others because they keep reading things wrong. Must be their guilty conscious. After all if they accuse you of something you know darn well they’re doing it as they accuse you.
“GUN SHOWS” terrify tyrannical dictators. They fear the more GUNS and GUN OWNERS, the less chances they have to push their TYRANNY, the “planned” takeover of our CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC to turn this country into a communist-controlled cesspool , and the citizens into unarmed CONTROLLED “subjects” they will be free to use, abuse, regulate, TAX TO DEATH, or by using one of their PAID terrorist groups, “eliminate” any, and all citizens that oppose the communist agenda. Open your eyes AMERICA, THAT my friends is happening RIGHT NOW.
When will the people wake up and get these communist dictators out of our government and out of our country?
Time to start sending these A$$holes to meet their maker.
I think there is a movement happening around the president and his supporters of the Conservative movement That is not going to take it anymore. The first democrat lead move to remove our constitutional rights and all hell is going to brake out. And I don’t see the police stepping in to stop it either
The American people knew the minute they said there would be mail in ballads that the election would be a farce and full of fraud. It shows just how worthless congress is to let this all happen. They just sit there on their asses and collect the taxpayer paycheck. Our elections are being controlled by the lamestreme media and we are to stupid to realize it. The media controls everything we see and hear. They are shutting down all the conservative conversation on the internet. Get ready this just the beginning.
As the law does not allow us to do what needs to be done, please join me in prayer that God removes the enemies of One Nation Under God, as he removed the infestation at Sodom.
Demons like to disarm the victims of Satan’s children, our criminal class. First they take your guns and then they take your Bibles. Didn’t they successfully close our Churches?
Did anyone else hear the Soviet Union anthem in their minds while reading this article?
Sooner or later people are going to say enough is enough, these people work for us, so may as well be now, bunch of bull.
Another JACKASS in American Politics, but if they take away guns then we are not able to defend ourselves against another HITLER (George Soros) the massive amount om money he “donated” to the democrats to attempt to buy the bstd politicians.
So goes Trump, so goes your 2nd Amendment rights. Bit by bit, city by city, state by state.
this is the reason Trump has to be President because biden is anti gun
Just an example of what will happen if Biden gets in.
Virginia has been taken over by the worst democrat people in this country. They are all closet communists. They grow on chaos and dissention they create in our society.
Excuse me Virginia ….. how are these Progressive Socialist Communist Leftist officials working for you ! You sat idly and allowed a Radical Attorney General to “ Steal your 2nd Amendment rights from you! You have voted Demorats into office every year, instead of becoming a force to be reckoned with and voting RED ! It will only be down hill from here ! Congrats !
Just how does this NOT “infringe” on the right to bear arms?
Besides, you don’t really think the bad guys are buying guns at gun shows do you. They work on the black market and, as the saying goes, when guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns.