Illinois Mayor Issues Coronavirus Order Allowing Ban on Gun Sales

Champaign, Illinois, Mayor Deborah Frank Feinen (D) issued an executive order Thursday that gives her the power to halt ammunition and firearm sales in the city.

The City of Champaign announced the executive order, saying:

Mayor Deborah Frank Feinen issued an Executive Order declaring the existence of a local emergency in the City of Champaign related to the COVID-19 virus, which is causing or is anticipated to cause widespread impacts on the health of members of the community. Provisions in Chapter 12 of the Champaign Municipal Code provide the Mayor authorization to declare an emergency for a limited period of time. This allows the Mayor to exercise significant emergency powers at the inception of the emergency, and then to provide an opportunity for the City Council, as a whole, to deal with an emergency.

https ://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/14/illinois-mayor-issues-coronavirus-order-allowing-ban-on-gun-sales/

>>8416350

Leftists always clamor to be the first one to take away citizen’s rights. Expect other cities to follow suit.

>>8416350

his is more likely just the same old stuff - they tried that with the CDC declaring firearms as a health hazard. And having doctors ask patients if they have firearms at home under the guise it is a health hazard.

They are using emergency powers to get the leftist agenda though. It will be interesting what happens when the "emergency" is over, if it ever is.

>>8416350

This event is rapidly becoming primarily an opportunity to advance socialist tyranny. Democrats are exposing themselves for what they are.

>>8416350

100% Unconstitutional

>>8416350

What has the firearms situation to do with this Coronovirus situation?? Let me guess, this is a liberal mayor!

>>8416350

Isn't this literally illegal? There is no way this doesn't violate the second amendment

>>8416350

Someone will need to have the time and resources to sue. But I agree with you. How the heck does this help with the virus?

>>8416350

So a mayor, an F ing mayor , can suspend the Constitution ? Really, I don't think so! Yankees, y'all need to get your sh it together!

>>8416350

The Constitution gives that woman no such power or authority!!! She is breaking the Supreme LAW of the LAND by her actions!

>>8416350

2A endures yet more erosion. Gratuitous exercise of power over something that has no bearing on the problem at hand

>>8416350

Totalitarians are testing their power to Tread on Our Natural and Constitutional Right to Defend ourselves and testing Our Will to fight for Our Natural Right to Defend Ourselves.

>>8416350

I’m sorry, but this is all starting to look suspicious …

It seems a lot of Democrat leaders are using this to implement the curtailing of individual freedoms and insert government control ..

it doesn’t look good for those claiming this isn’t being politically Weaponized

>>8416350

She does not have that authority she is in violation of the constitution she is exceeding the current National emergency.

>>8416350

The U.S. Constitution far supersedes the absurd powers granted to a know-nothing mayor who is clearly overreacting. The Second Amendment, which smashes this trashy piece of faux legislation, is supreme here, so stopping gun sales is not only unconstitutional but smacks of Martial Law on the local level, a power not granted to this mayor. This absurd authority in no way rises above the Constitution.

>>8416350

Somebody sneezed and..POOF!…just like that…the Constitution disappeared.

>>8416350

And Democrats don't have a need for TP because they've been wiping their butts with copies of the Constitution for years.

>>8416350

Can we say TYRANT?

>>8416350

What do gun sales have to do with the Coronavirus??! Nothing. A power grab and nothing more. Unconstitutional BTW!

>>8416350

"Provisions in Chapter 12 of the Champaign Municipal Code" do not supersede the United States Constitution.

>>8416350

Brilliant. An unprecedented national emergency is when law-abiding citizens need firearms the most, and she's using it as an excuse to ban the sale of them. If supermarket shelves are bare and people aren't able to find food, they'll become desperate, and desperate people are dangerous. It's when the rest of us most need firearms to defend our homes and families, for Pete's sake.

>>8416350

Gee, I wonder how our ancestors who fought the American Revolution would have responded to a petty tyrant like Mayor Feinen declaring she can suspend our rights because it's flu season?

>>8416350

So this mayor has the power to override the United States Constitution?

>>8416350

She is using the virus to push her agenda just like pelosi did with trying to cram her abortion crap into the virus stimulus.

>>8416350

She has no such authority and the COVID doesn't giver her the excuse to violate the Constitution…She should be removed from office…

>>8416350

Any excuse to violate our Second Amendment rights

>>8416350

Mayor DeBlasio has suggested nationalizing whole industries. I think I’m catching on to a liberal pattern during this crisis

>>8416350

Remember what Louisiana police did during Katrina? They went house to house collecting guns? If I remember correctly the NRA handed them their butt in court.

>>8416350

The same ban happened during hurricane Katrina in New Orleans which was a tragic mistake. The people that swore an oath to protect the Constitution are only interested in protecting themselves. You citizens are an afterthought

Some states like Il make it mandatory tp bring your own bag to bag up groceries because of global climate change

Is this spreading the virus the wuhan virus by using the same bag ?

>>8416746

Patient Zero of Wuhan China ?