TX Attorney General Opinion: Essential Business

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: “notwithstanding any other law.”
  • This prevents local governments from restricting the sale of firearms
• Texas Government Code also limits local government ability to interfere with firearm sales in times of emergency

Update to : Texas Attorney General Opinion: Essential Business? What is it?

What question will the Texas Attorney General will answer?

whether a firearm retailer is an essential business for purposes of an emergency declaration

Who requested the opinion? State Representative Dustin Burrows

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