{"id":30178,"date":"2020-04-02T12:43:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T12:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=30178"},"modified":"2020-04-02T12:43:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T12:43:06","slug":"greensboro-backs-down-but-will-durham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=30178","title":{"rendered":"Greensboro Backs Down But Will Durham"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3776,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.grnc.org\\\/defend-your-rights\\\/press-releases&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.grnc.org\\\/wp\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Grass Roots North Carolina and Gunowners of America sent a demand letter to the cities of Greensboro and Durham on Tuesday. It demanded they rescind or change the determination the firearms-related businesses were not essential. They had until noon today to make the change or they would face court action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, Mayor Nancy Vaughan of Greensboro informed GRNC and GOA that she wrongly determined gun stores and ranges as &#8220;non-essential&#8221;. Now it remains to be seen if Mayor Steve Schewel of Durham will do likewise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"534\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Nancy-Vaughan.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Nancy-Vaughan.jpg 534w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Nancy-Vaughan-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><figcaption>Picture courtesy of Carolina Peacemaker<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On a related note, I got a response from Buncombe County yesterday for why they didn&#8217;t include gun stores and ranges in their list of essential businesses. Buncombe County felt that since state statute preempted them from closing them during periods of emergency that it would have been superfluous to have listed them as essential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grnc.org\/defend-your-rights\/press-releases\" class=\"rank-math-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">release <\/a>from GRNC on Vaughan&#8217;s retreat is below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> The  mayor of Greensboro, North Carolina, has reversed herself and now  agrees that gun stores within city limits can remain open, after being contacted by  Grass Roots North Carolina (GRNC) and Gun Owners of America (GOA) and  The Mayor had told the media that gun stores were not \u201cessential\u201d businesses,  despite the fact that the city\u2019s \u201cstay-at-home\u201d order stated otherwise.                                                         <\/p><p> This  reversal comes after a Cease and Desist letter from GOA and GRNC urging Mayor Nancy Vaughan to correct  her interpretation, or face legal action. Mayor Vaughan informed GOA and  GRNC via email that she was incorrect in her interpretation.                                                         <\/p><p> While GOA and GRNC are thankful for the  clarification, both organizations still look forward to seeing a public  announcement by Mayor Vaughan to let the citizens of the Gate City know they can  lawfully visit and purchase firearms and ammunition from gun stores  during the \u201cstay-at-home\u201d order.                                                         <\/p><p> Likewise,  Wake County, North Carolina has also reopened its gun stores after a similar  letter sent by GRNC and GOA,\u00a0 which also sent letters Guildford County and the city of Durham urging the localities to ensure gun stores remain  open or face legal action.\u00a0\u00a0                                                         <\/p><p> Elsewhere,  when contacted by legal counsel for GRNC and GOA, the attorney for  Orange County disavowed any statements previously made, saying its language would protect firearms  businesses, and Buncombe County advises that although they did not  specifically list firearm businesses as \u201cessential,\u201d the county will follow state  guidelines which protect firearm businesses provided they follow social distancing requirements.                                                          <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grass Roots North Carolina and Gunowners of America sent a demand letter to the cities of Greensboro and Durham&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5195,5194,5187,864,103,808,5193,104],"class_list":["post-30178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-buncombe-county","tag-durham","tag-essential-businesses","tag-goa","tag-grass-roots-north-carolina","tag-greensboro","tag-mayor-nancy-vaughan","tag-north-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30180,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30178\/revisions\/30180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}