Posted on 02/14/2015 8:43:23 AM PST by Q-ManRN
About a year ago, the Second Amendment community was rocked by news that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) had teamed up with Attorney General Eric Holder to utterly destroy firearms manufacturers and dealers by cutting off all credit and banking relationships with them.
For its part, the FDIC categorized gun and ammunition sales as a "high-risk business," lumping it in with drug dealers, pornographers, and Ponzi scheme operators -- all of which it was working to completely destroy.
Holder, in turn, would provide the "muscle" -- using a program called Operation Choke Point to make sure banks "got the message."
But when Holder promised to be a "good boy" and the FDIC removed guns from its "high-risk list," the appropriators relented and allowed the program to continue.
Not surprisingly, every evidence is that Holder was lying -- and has every intention to continue using Operation Choke Point to go after gun dealers on a case-by-case basis.
So now, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) has introduced legislation to shut the doors of Operation Choke Point -- and bar all of the possible escape routes.
Rubio's bill, S. 477, would defund Operation Choke Point -- permanently. It would insure that the FDIC didn't use "fees" to fund a program which could no longer go on with appropriated funds. And it would prohibit Holder and the FDIC from reestablishing "Choke Point" under another name.
ACTION: Contact your Senators and urge them to cosponsor S. 477, the Firearms Manufacturers and Dealers Protection Act of 2015.
(Excerpt) Read more at gunowners.org ...
Ping
Sounds like good legislation.
I don’t understand how they can do this operation against a legal business such as a gun dealer.
I can understand going after illegal drug operators who are laundering money.
But I can’t see how this sort of thing can be legal when going against a legally operating business.
Dilbert San Diego wrote:
“Sounds like good legislation.
I don’t understand how they can do this operation against a legal business such as a gun dealer.
I can understand going after illegal drug operators who are laundering money.
But I can’t see how this sort of thing can be legal when going against a legally operating business.”
It is called Tyranny! Holder & his cronies see themselves as the law; therefore, they can do whatever they want to do simply by desiring it.
Rubio also wanted to fund LULAC and La Raza in his amnesty plan
This may be an attempt for Rubio to try to brush up his conservative credentials. I give him credit for doing the right thing here. I don’t forget his betrayal on amnesty.
“Rubio also wanted to fund LULAC and La Raza in his amnesty plan”
LOL....Rubio would move slightly to the right of Attila the Hun, if he could re-legitimize himself. He needs a John McCain tutorial : )
I’ll never trust The Rube again no matter what feel good big promises legislation he writes. Eff Rubio
“I can’t see how this sort of thing can be legal when going against a legally operating business.”
I don’t believe it is legal and certainly not ethical but whose going to try to stop them? The new law, IF it we’re to be passed, could still be ignored by the administration and courts and the banks would still cave. I do appreciate Rubio attempting to fix this but he’s still got a lot of fence to mend. I believe we’re more in need of a new administration than a new law.
I never trusted him to begin with.He had baggage from day one. It never ceases to amaze me that so few FReepers take advantage of internet research.
Anything he does to try to burnish his conservative bona fides is great, but in spite of that I and many others will never trust Rubio again.
he should go for the Romney Re-Conservatization Image System
You too can fool everyone into thinking you are a real conservative and loyal Republican, even if you were a barking moon-bat just last week!
Learn phrases like “severely conservative”!
For only $19.99 out of pocket and $10 million from your political slush-fund, Mittens himself will give you advice by phone while his handlers assure you a nomination while destroying any chance of winning the general.
Call Today!
Fighting to maintain our Liberty/Freedom is a 24/7 job. Thank you Marco Rubio!![snip] (In Hawkins, Wisconsin, for instance, a bank was just recently pressured to deny credit to the local gun dealer for the purpose of shutting its doors. (And, incidentally, AG candidate Loretta Lynch lied to Vitter and Mike Lee about knowing nothing substantial about Choke Point, even when warned she would be asked about it.)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.