https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/26/coronavirus-l-a-sheriff-goes-back-to-closing-gun-stores-will-others-follow/

Three Bay Area guns stores were ordered closed, another was put on notice, and the sheriff of California’s largest county reversed course again and ordered stores in his jurisdiction to also stop selling weapons Thursday as the debate over whether or not the businesses are essential played out across California in the midst of the coronavirus crisis.

“In compliance with (Gov. Gavin Newsom’s) executive order, gun and ammunition stores are not considered essential businesses and will cease to sell to the general public,” Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva tweeted Thursday. He had announced a similar position Tuesday, but pulled back after his county’s top lawyer wrote an opinion hours later calling the stores essential.