danb
dont be a dumbass
From our friends at Volokh:
https://reason.com/2020/03/23/pa-go...ction-can-continue-during-covid-19-emergency/
saving lives, just not the lives of diabetics. Or something.
Tom Wolf, the Governor of Pennsylvania maintains that licensed firearm dealers are not "life-sustaining" businesses. Therefore, they must shutter during the COVID-19 emergency. But, thankfully, the Peeps factory in Bethlehem, PA can remain open. Yes, the popular marshmallow candy is "life-sustaining."
https://reason.com/2020/03/23/pa-go...ction-can-continue-during-covid-19-emergency/
saving lives, just not the lives of diabetics. Or something.
This sort of evidence would help the Supreme Court summarily conclude that the Governor's policy is completely irrational. Caetano v. Massachusetts provides a guide. That case declared unconstitutional Massachusett's ban on stun guns. But the two-page per curiam decision did not wade into Heller's unresolved issues.
Here, the Supreme Court could simply say that Pennsylvania's distinction of what is, and is not "life-sustaining" cannot survive even rational-basis review. Indeed, other states have designated firearm dealers as "essential." Stay tuned.