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Grass Roots North Carolina \/ Forum For Firearms Education FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/span><\/span> E-mail: President@GRNC.org<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Release date:<\/strong> March 30, 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Wake County Reopens Gun Stores<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n After GOA, GRNC Legal Warning<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n [Raleigh, NC, March 30]\u00a0 Wake County, North Carolina has revised its emergency order to reopen gun stores after a letter sent by Grass Roots North Carolina (GRNC and Gun Owner of America (GOA).<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n After threat of legal action from GRNC and GOA, Wake County reverses course to allow gun sales, and the county will follow the \u201cstay-at-home\u201d order issued by Gov. Roy Cooper. This order allows gun stores that practice social distancing to remain open.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n GRNC President Paul Valone said: \u201cGRNC is pleased the Wake County Board of Commissioners has acknowledged that for the safety and security of citizens, firearms retailers and related businesses are indeed part of the critical infrastructure of our country and must remain open during any state of emergency.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n GOA\u2019s Senior Vice President Erich Pratt said: \u201cGOA is pleased to see this reversal from Wake County. The county\u2019s original order was an egregious infringement on the right to keep and bear arms and went against federal guidance and state law.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Wake County has told attorneys for GRNC and GOA it will comply, saying: \u201cWe are in the process of updating our proclamation for consistency with the CISA update on March 28, 2020.\u201d The county said litigation won\u2019t be necessary. We will see.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Grass Roots North Carolina \/ Forum For Firearms Education Post Office Box 10665, Raleigh, NC 27605 877.282.0939 (Phone) 919.573.0354 (Fax) www.GRNC.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grnc-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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