Breaking the Bank

I suspect that Bank of America simply wanted to make a political statement, which was unnecessary. If anything, it only sent paying clients to a competitor, which is lunacy. [More]

Yesterday I submitted my latest GUNS Magazine "Rights Watch" piece, "Banking on Disarmament," dealing with B of A and other financial ideological cleansers. I expect to see it posted to the site soon.

Also still unresolved: Bass Pro Shops is staying mum about what it's relationship with B of A on credit cards and Citi on credit processing means for its business practices.  Probably because no one else is asking.

[Via Mack H]

Banking on Disarmament

Bank closes gun shop’s accounts [More]

I wonder if Gregory Jones wanted to grow up to be a weasel-wording flack when he grew up...

That said, the guy supplies disarmament enforcers, so I can't get too worked up over this.

[Via Thaddeus F]

Banking on Disarmament

 Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced this week that he is calling on American Express, Mastercard and Visa to “show responsible corporate citizenship” and stop online payments for the purchase of ghost gun kits. [More]

♫  No one lies like Gascón... ♫

[Via Jess]

How Dare You Not Surrender to Unprovoked Attacks?

Proposed GOP bills in six states block banks that limit guns ... bankers watch one of their most reliable business lines -- lending to U.S. states and cities -- turn into a political weapon.... Several banking groups are lobbying against the legislation  [More]

Those would be the "capitalist" rope-sellers banking on disarmament that turned it into a political weapon in the first place. Condemning defense against aggression is what Bloomberg and his owned lickspittles are all about. 

[Via Jess]

Banking on Disarmament

 JPMorgan Chase & Co. says it’s being shut out of underwriting municipal-bond deals in Texas after the state enacted a law banning government work with banks that limit business with the firearms industry. [More]

It's not like they're against guns per se. They were happy to be ATF's banker and offer a sweetheart deal to a Gunwalker plotter.

Funny, no one ever followed up on the ethics of that.

[Via Jess]

Piggy Banks

 DIRTY MONEY POURS INTO THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL BANKS. [More]

I see the names of some of the same subversive bastards who are banking on disarmament...

That's Supposed to Be a Threat?

Amalgamated Bank, a New York-bank with $48 billion in institutional investment assets that emphasizes socially responsible practices, sent a letter Thursday to Sturm, Ruger & Company’s board, demanding that it adopt six reforms or it would not support the re-election of one of the gun maker’s board members, Sandra Froman, who is also an NRA board member. [More]

Interesting bedfellows. Excuse me while the shock and awe wears off.

I submitted my GUNS Magazine "Rights Watch" column earlier this morning (titled "Banking on Disarmament") and just asked the editor if he could add this news at the end.

[Via Florida Guy]

Banking on Disarmament

US banks and financial institutions have been slowly severing ties with the gun industry [More]

Then they won't need bailouts or government contracts or FDIC guarantees...

I'd like to see a gun group organize a lobbying campaign if "we" win in November.

Banking on Disarmament

 As Gun Industry Continues to Be Shunned by Banks, Regulators Move to Enforce Fair Access [More]

Still, huh?

How about we just don't let them do any business with the federal government or receive any bailouts?

[Via Mack H]

Banking on Disarmament

Citi Merchant Services and First Data Corp. are refusing to process any credit card transactions between federally licensed firearms retailers, distributors and manufacturers -- a move which will severely limit available inventory of firearms and ammunition to military, law enforcement and law-abiding Americans.

CitiCorp contact form

First Data Merchant Services email

Y'all know what to do.

[Via The Jeffersonian]

Banking on Disarmament

There’s a slight problem for the left, however; banks aren’t allowed to discriminate against legal industries. [More]

Sic 'em!

[Via Mack H]

No One's Talking About Taking Your Guns

Beto O'Rourke: 'Hell, yes, we're going to take your AR-15, your AK-47' [More]

And the crowd went wild.

The irony escapes these lottery-winning stage props.

UPDATE (via Mack H): And he's banking on disarmament.

Banking on Disarmament

Fifth Third Bank Joins BoA & CitiGroup in War Against Your Gun Rights [More]

Oh, they've been anti-gun a long time.

And we see how well that's worked out for them.

[Via Jess]

Opportunity Knocks

Firearm Friendly Merchant Processing Made Affordable with Gearfire Payments [More]

Good. Because too may are banking on disarmament.

[Via Jess]

Banking on Disarmament

“It’s called capitalism. If you don’t like what the bank’s telling you, you go down the street and find another bank,” said Rep. Sam Jones, a Franklin Democrat communist. [More]

There. I fixed it for anyone who believes his motivation is one of unrestricted free market championship.

And I wouldn't mind his assertion as long as the banks doing the discrimination have no financial dealings with any government entities.

Banking on Disarmament

 U.S. Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and U.S. Reps. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.), and Jennifer Wexton, (D-Va.) introduced The Gun Violence Prevention Through Financial Intelligence Act, H.R. 5764, in the U.S. House of Representatives and in the U.S. Senate as S. 3117. The legislation is troublesome because the politicians authoring it pitch it as a means to detect and prevent those who might be planning to commit an atrocity or terror attack. [More]

And guess who they want everyone to think are atrocity-committing terrorists.

[Via  An Hour of Wolves]

Banking on Disarmament

Unsurprisingly, banks are also beneficiaries of collectivism. Citigroup and B of A both got “government bailouts” courtesy of the taxpayers. Gun owners had no say in prohibiting money taken from them being used to guarantee assets of corporate ingrates. And JP Morgan Chase, ATF’s credit card provider, offered a position to get a double-dipping Fast and Furious manager out of the country, was a top Obama and Hillary campaign contributor, and the bank that terminated the account of “3D printed gun” pioneer Defense Distributed. [More]

Economic fascists gone wild...

Banking on Disarmament

California Democrat Maxine Waters is the new chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee. To judge from the party’s past behavior and the various proposals emanating from the left, Waters’s Democrats are going to pressure banks, credit unions, and payment companies to severely curtail and even terminate their relationships with firearm manufacturers, licensed gun retailers, and law-abiding citizens exercising their right to purchase and own firearms. In other words, they will use political pressure to force private institutions into creating social policy that threatens constitutional rights. [More]

It could be they'll screw things up so badly that the best way to get a new gun will be to take it off the confiscators.

Banking on Disarmament

The original policy outlined the bank could deny loans to gun shop employees, with BoQ claiming it wanted to avoid engagement with businesses which could be linked to crime. [More]

Make note of what we're dealing with.

[Via Felix B]

Rope-Selling Capitalists

 Bank of America has 'disturbing' warning about toddlers in woke program [Watch]

It's no coincidence they're also banking on disarmament.

[Via Jess]