{"id":1659,"date":"2020-04-02T00:09:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T00:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2020-04-02T18:03:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T18:03:06","slug":"1659","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/1659\/","title":{"rendered":"TX Attorney General Opinion: Essential Business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/ken-paxton\/kp-0296?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">KP- 0296 <\/a>Texas Attorney General offers this rational for including firearms sales as an essential business:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Cities and local governments are limited by this phrase in the Texas Local Government Code: \u201cnotwithstanding any other law.\u201d<ul><li>This prevents local governments from restricting the sale of firearms<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Texas Government Code also limits local government ability to interfere with firearm sales in times of emergency<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Update to : Texas Attorney General Opinion: Essential Business? What is it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What question will the Texas Attorney General will answer?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">whether a firearm retailer is an essential business for purposes of an emergency declaration<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who requested the opinion? State Representative Dustin Burrows<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/rq\/2020\/pdf\/RQ0341KP.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">RQ-0341-KP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In KP- 0296 Texas Attorney General offers this rational for including firearms sales as an essential business: Cities and local governments are limited by this phrase in the Texas Local Government Code: \u201cnotwithstanding any other law.\u201d This prevents local governments from restricting the sale of firearms Texas Government Code also limits local government ability to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1669,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}