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TexasTowelie

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Wed Nov 18, 2020, 06:31 PM Nov 2020

AG Mark Herring Files Lawsuit Against Allowing "massive potential superspreader indoor gun show to

AG Mark Herring Files Lawsuit Against Allowing “massive potential superspreader indoor gun show to be held in NOVA this weekend”


From AG Mark Herring’s office:

A lawsuit has been filed in Fairfax Circuit Court by “a gun-show promoter, a firearms dealer, and a prospective gun-show attendee” seeking an exemption to allow for a massive potentially 25,000-person indoor gun show to be held at the Dulles Expo Center this weekend. With COVID cases rising throughout Virginia and around the country, a gun show of this size would most certainly become a superspreader event and could infect hundreds if not thousands of Virginians with COVID.

AG Herring filed a reply brief this morning, detailing the detrimental consequences a massive event like this could have and saying that the “[p]laintiffs’ filings betray a callous disregard for the public-health consequences”.

Because this superspreader event is scheduled for this weekend, this case is moving incredibly quickly, and a hearing has been scheduled for 10 AM tomorrow morning in front of Judge Brett A. Kassabian.

In his reply, AG Herring says that so far, Virginia’s COVID safety measures have “been working, by one estimate halving the transmission rate from what it would have been without them.” But he adds that, “[t]his Fall has brought a dangerous surge in COVID-19 cases in the Commonwealth…[and] Virginia public health authorities are currently reporting an average of approximately 1,500 new COVID-19 cases per day.”

Read more: https://bluevirginia.us/2020/11/ag-mark-herring-files-lawsuit-against-allowing-massive-potential-superspreader-indoor-gun-show-to-be-held-in-nova-this-weekend
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AG Mark Herring Files Lawsuit Against Allowing "massive potential superspreader indoor gun show to (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2020 OP
Gotta get teh wingnutz armed up for their overthrow of the socialist order, en masse (nt) mr_lebowski Nov 2020 #1
Killing you softly... Kimber432 Nov 2020 #2
25,000!?!?! underpants Nov 2020 #3
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