Posted on 06/24/2018 9:21:55 PM PDT by Olog-hai
With Gary Ramey’s fledgling gun-making business taking off in retail stores, he decided to start offering one of his handguns for sale on his website.
That didn’t sit well with the company he used to process payments, and they informed him they were dropping his account. Another credit card processing firm told him the same thing: They wouldn’t do business with him.
The reason? His business of making firearms violates their policies.
In the wake of high-profile mass shootings, corporate America has been taking a stand against the firearms industry amid a lack of action by lawmakers on gun control. Payment processing firms are limiting transactions, Bank of America stopped providing financing to companies that make AR-style guns, and retailers like Walmart and Dick’s Sporting Goods imposed age restrictions on gun purchases.
The moves are lauded by gun-safety advocates but criticized by the gun industry that views them as a backhanded way of undermining the Second Amendment. […]
The issue has already gotten the attention of the Republican who is chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho sent letters criticizing Bank of America and Citigroup, which decided to restrict sales of firearms by its business customers, over their new gun rules in the wake of the Florida high school shooting in February. “We should all be concerned if banks like yours seek to replace legislators and policy makers and attempt to manage social policy by limiting access to credit,” Crapo wrote to Citigroup’s chief executive. …
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Won’t matter so long as the message
Gets out....remember....I’m a multi
millionaire....who knows, with enough
money, maybe Jr would drive for me.
The messsage goes furthure if you have a winning driver.
I call on all CEOs to have any security hired to protect property, or details that protect execs, to go gun free.
I was in Greenwich,Connecticut last week walking around,killing a day.Greenwich,for those who aren't familiar with the town,is a suburb of NYC and is one of the richest residential suburbs on earth.
As I walked around I saw that every single multi million dollar house I passed had a sign somewhere in the front of the house saying something like "protected by XYZ Security".
So I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the announcement you've proposed.
If it were me, I’d drive for free and let the manufacturers pay for the patches on my race suit.
Any corporation that does this is anti-American. Should lose its charter and close its doors.
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