Roberts: Why Do Gun Makers Deserve Protection Before Rape Victims, Transgender Kids?

It seems some banks no longer want to do business with some companies that make and/or sell guns. Berkshire Bank, for example, quit lending money to Sig Sauer a few years ago, choosing not to help the company make more of the MCX rifle that was used to murder 49 people in a gay nightclub … Read more

Big Banks Happy to Keep Bankrolling Russia While Denying Services to Firearms Industry Businesses

By Larry Keane Big banks are showing they love two things: Communist cash and discriminating against Constitutionally-protected industries. Multinational corporate banks including JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup told the Biden administration to back off sanctioning Russia, according to a Bloomberg report. The crippling measure would have booted Russia from the SWIFT financial messaging system, a global … Read more

Arizona House Passes Bill Banning State From Contracting With Firms That Discriminate Against Gun Industry Firms

From the AP . . . The Arizona House voted Wednesday to penalize businesses that refuse to do business with firearms companies by barring them from state contracts. The proposal that passed with only support from majority Republicans drew strong opposition from the banking industry but backing from gun groups and the firearms industry. The … Read more

Kansas FIND Act Financial Anti-Discrimination Bill to Be Heard in a Key Senate Committee

[ED: Texas enacted the FIND Act in 2021 in response to big banks’ anti-gun policies. Money center banks like Bank of America, Citibank, JP Morgan Chase and others had put lending and underwriting policies in place that explicitly discriminated against lawful gun industry-related businesses. Once signed into law, Texas’s FIND Act has forced a change … Read more

Citigroup Says It’s Changed Its Anti-Gun Policies, Wants to Resume Public Finance Business in Texas

The state’s law targeted Wall Street banks for wading into the debate over guns in the U.S. Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. also haven’t underwritten munis sold by the state and its cities, schools, and transit agencies since the legislation took effect. Bank of America and Citigroup … Read more

More States are Telling Anti-Gun Big Banks They’ll Take Their Business Elsewhere

  By Larry Keane Louisiana is known as the Sportsman’s Paradise for good reasons. Taxpaying outdoorsmen and women there won’t tolerate Second Amendment shenanigans, and Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry is putting a major national bank on notice. JP Morgan Chase is the largest bank in the country with a balance sheet of nearly $3 … Read more

When Big Banks Dump Firearms Industry Customers, Smaller Banks Are Ready to Step In

By Larry Keane Big corporations with “woke” policies are waking up to the fact that smaller businesses are glad to take the business they shun. American Banker reported that corporate banks are quaking in their boots over the Texas state legislature’s debating a bill that would end taxpayer support to contract with corporations that willfully discriminate against … Read more