Los Angeles sheriff: gun shops not essential, must close

The Los Angeles County sheriff said Tuesday gun shops are not essential businesses and ordered them to stop selling to the public, a move that enraged Second Amendment advocates who said they planned to challenge it in court.Los Angeles, the nation’s largest county with 10 million residents, enacted a stay-at-home order last week that required all nonessential businesses to close to slow the spread of the coronavirus.Sheriff Alex Villanueva said what he described as a “loophole&rdquo