Kennedy Files With U.S. Federal Court To Order Ventura County To Allow Gun Stores To Reopen

by Ronda Kennedy | Mar 27, 2020 | 2nd Amendment, California's 26th congressional district, Coronavirus pandemic

Kennedy Files With U.S. Federal Court To Order Ventura County To Allow
Gun Stores To Reopen
Says Health Crisis Is Not The Time To Enact A Political Agenda To Attack The Second Amendment
Westlake Village, CA/March 27, 2020 - Today Ronda Kennedy, the Republican nominee for U.S. Congress in CA 26, announced that she is filing for injunctive relief against Ventura County, California for shutting down all gun stores in the County. The Ventura County Counsel’s legal opinion is that gun stores are non-essential businesses and under the state ordered shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic must close. Kennedy is filing on behalf of gun owners who have purchased guns at the stores that have been ordered close who were to pick up their guns following their background checks and store owners. Kennedy said this is a clear violation of the Second Amendment and an attempt to use a health pandemic to force a political agenda upon law-abiding citizens. She pointed out that both San Diego County and Los Angeles County (one of the most anti-Second Amendment counties in the nation) have deemed gun stores as essential businesses. This is essentially a ban on the sale firearms in Ventura County, under the County’s Stay Well Order enacted March 20, 2020 gun store owners could be charged with a misdemeanor and face up to one year in jail, for opening.
“The County of Ventura is violating the constitutional rights of law abiding citizens as it seeks to impose the County’s political agenda on its citizens during this pandemic,” said Ronda Kennedy. “The Constitution is clear and absolute and does not simply stop during a crisis.
“These are law abiding citizens whose Second Amendment rights are being autocratically usurped by the County of Ventura,” continued Kennedy. “I had hoped the County would see the error of its ways especially as other counties and municipalities with a deep animosity towards the Second Amendment have deemed gun stores to be essential businesses. Since the County continues to violate the Constitution, I will filing for injunctive relief in federal court.”