By AMANDA MARCOTTE
PUBLISHED JUNE 23, 2021 1:11PM (EDT)
Shoppers wait in line to purchase ammunition and guns at Gun World in Burbank on Tuesday, March 17, 2020 as US sales of guns and ammunition soar amid the coronavirus outbreak.
This store is part of the Gun Run, where for John Nash reasons there are five gun stores in a couple of blocks on Magnolia in Burbank (rather like the Mile of Tile in Anaheim and the Block of Rock in North Hollywood).
There were lines of customers waiting out front of these stores in March 2020, when people worried that the pandemic would lead to unforeseeable consequences, and then again in June 2020 when it did and The Establishment declared looting and arson to be Peaceful Protesting and, after months of shutting beaches and golf courses, almost completely safe from spreading the virus. (The latter turned out to be true. The Peaceful Protest part not so much.)