These laws are an effort to make it so difficult to do business that the ABS can't make enough money to remain in business. In just the last two weeks, a federal judge upheld a local ordinance here in Indianapolis that ABS must close at midnight (used to be open 24/7) and not at all on Sundays (we also can't buy package liquor or a motor vehicle on Sunday. What a backward fucking state I live in). Over the years, they've also gone the no door route, only one in a both, ect. Along with zoning restrictions, the number of ABS in Indianapos has dropped from about a dozen 20 years ago to only 2.
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