LA sheriff clashes with county lawyer over closing gun shops

[sarisataka]

7. Your concern for my situation is touching

But I have considered my needs at this time and determined I do not need to purchase an umpteenth gun nor do I need any more ammunition than I currently have. Even if I did, I would not travel several days to LA county to make such purchases.

I am inferring several points from your response:
- communities may regulate and even prohibit businesses. I agree with this to a point. I do not think communities may entirely prohibit businesses that are protected by the Constitution or SCOTUS ruling, abortion clinics for example

- law enforcement may, in the absence of community regulations, decide on their own which businesses must close. Any business not specifically named as essential by order may be allowed to operate or not at the whim of the local law enforcement chief.

- you are in agreement that sheriff's are able to disregard higher authority in their position as the highest level of law enforcement in their domain.

- lastly, though the Constitution may guarantee a right, that guarantee does not extend to the means to exercise that right. For example the 1st Amendment prohibits Congress from abridging the freedom of the press, but this does not mean a sheriff needs to allow a newspaper to print or distribute its papers, or by extension he may deem a television station's studio and transmitter facility to be "non-essential" and order them closed.

Please elaborate if I have drawn any incorrect conclusions.