No masks allowed in Jefferson County gun store, an example of the US divide – By Leah Thorsen (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) / Sept 8 2020
FENTON — Charleen Shakman arrived at a Jefferson County gun shop thinking she was about to buy hard-to-find bullets.
Instead, she was met that Saturday last month by a sign on the door of Modern Weapon Systems stating no masks were allowed in the store. “Masks are for cry babies, Democrats and robbers,” the sign said, in part.
”I’d never seen anything like that,” said Shakman, a gun hobbyist from Wildwood who enjoys target shooting with her husband. Shakman, after a heated argument with the store’s owner, left in a huff, without the bullets.
The disagreement, which spilled online, gaining vitriol and attention, highlights the divide between maskers and anti-maskers playing out here and nationally. The fight has been especially contentious in Jefferson County. At a July 28 protest outside the county’s health department, one woman held a sign that read, “Hitler required compliance too.” One month later, the county health department board voted to put a mask mandate in place, only to revoke it a day later after residents complained that the board had not properly notified the public.
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