{"id":60105,"date":"2020-09-27T12:21:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T17:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=60105"},"modified":"2020-09-27T12:21:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T17:21:33","slug":"60105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=60105","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc6onyourside.com\/news\/local\/ohio-lawmakers-pass-bill-making-gun-stores-an-essential-business-even-amid-a-pandemic\">Ohio lawmakers pass bill making gun stores an &#8216;essential business&#8217; even amid a pandemic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio (<a class=\"themeColorForLinks\" title=\"https:\/\/abc6onyourside.com\/news\/local\/ohio-lawmakers-pass-bill-making-gun-stores-an-essential-business-even-amid-a-pandemic\" href=\"https:\/\/abc6onyourside.com\/news\/local\/ohio-lawmakers-pass-bill-making-gun-stores-an-essential-business-even-amid-a-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WSYX\/WTTE<\/a>) \u2014 The Ohio Senate recently passed a bill that would ban the closure of licensed firearms dealers, even\u00a0<a class=\"themeColorForLinks\" title=\"\/news\/coronavirus\" href=\"https:\/\/abc6onyourside.com\/news\/coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">during a pandemic<\/a>. Gun store owners are now behind the legislation and hope it reaches the governor&#8217;s desk. However, other groups against the bill now worry about the bill saying it could do more harm than good.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Delbert, the owner of LEPD Firearms, says in the eight years he&#8217;s been running the store gun sales have never been higher.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAt the height of COVID and at the beginning of the civil unrest, we went from selling 10 firearms in a day just in a day just some days selling over 100,\u201d said Delbert.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Governors of several states excluded licensed firearms dealers from the list of \u201cessential\u201d businesses. Recently, passed Senate Bill 360, backed by Republican Senate President Larry Obhof, would ban any public official from closing down gun stores, even during a pandemic&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<div class=\"index_storyEmbed__3wV7\">\n<div class=\"index_twitterEmbed__3PI1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio lawmakers pass bill making gun stores an &#8216;essential business&#8217; even amid a pandemic COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX\/WTTE) \u2014 The Ohio Senate recently passed a bill that would ban the closure of licensed firearms dealers, even\u00a0during a pandemic. Gun store owners are now behind the legislation and hope it reaches the governor&#8217;s desk. However, other groups &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=60105\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60106,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60105\/revisions\/60106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}