Frontsight Sues State Over COVID-19 Restrictions

Ignatius Piazza's email here

The short versions is that state law prohibits emergency orders from interfering with Second Amendment rights, including use. Frontsight is arguing that the asinine restrictions promulgated by the dictator in Carson City and executed by his toadies at Nevada OSHA.

So basically this will wind up with a court fight over whether or not asking people to say 6 feet away, wear masks, etc. are "permissible" infringement on the Second Amendment. I'm sure the dumbasses at our Supreme Court will make up some excuse to permit this.

Frankly, all gun businesses need to tell the authorities to pound sand. Anyhow, an excerpt and then follow the link and read the whole thing.

​As you know from my previous emails, even though Front Sight is considered "essential critical infrastructure" and is exempt from all of the Governor of Nevada’s COVID-19 Emergency Management Restrictions, we voluntarily closed Front Sight in the Spring and Summer to support the popular, but unproven notion that closing down the country would somehow flatten the curve of COVID-19 infections. I did this RELUCTANTLY.

We bit the bullet and did our part to support the Governor’s mandates, even though we did not have to comply under Nevada law, which states:

Pursuant to Article II of the Constitution of the United States and Section 11 of Article 1 of the Constitution of the State of Nevada, and notwithstanding any other provision of law, emergency powers conferred upon the Governor and upon the executive heads or governing bodies of the political subdivisions of this State, must not be construed to allow…

The imposition of additional restrictions to lawful possession, transfer, sale, caring, storage, display or use of:

Firearms;
Ammunition; or
Components of Firearms or Ammunition.

 made it very clear in my emails that we would re-open on September 1 under our usual policies and procedures.

From March until now, we watched, as you have, double standards be applied to large social gatherings. Leftist protestors and rioters are allowed to gather in huge numbers without any regard for social distancing or use of masks, and in many cases encouraged to do so by the same government officials who imposed the social gathering restrictions and mask mandates on churches, entertainment venues, sporting events, restaurants, hair salons and others. The left promoted this double standard claiming it was all done under the First Amendment allowing peaceful protest, even when the protests were not peaceful.

As September approached, we sent letters to all of our students and members preparing to attend courses this Fall to let them know that due to the tendency for masks to cause your safety glasses to fog, obscuring your vision and creating a dangerous situation while training with firearms, masks were not required on the firing line for students, safety coaches or instructors.

We also stated that due to the need for safety coaches and instructors to be within arms’ reach of students to instruct or immediately intervene if a student’s movements or actions placed themselves or others in danger, we could not adhere to any social distancing protocol.

A few days before 900 students were arriving for our September 4-7 courses, we received correspondence from government agencies involved in Nevada’s COVID Compliance demanding that we alter our procedures and policies or face fines, closure, etc.

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