Activist CEOs’ Dishonest Attacks on Gun Rights

Earlier this year, Bank of America and Citigroup announced plans to restrict doing business with firearm manufacturers and purchasers, raising concerns within both the Second Amendment community and among Americans fearing corporate political activism more broadly.

The banks have tried to couch their anti-gun crusading in a way that does not reveal their true intent, but people are policy, and it’s not hard to find the real impetus behind these corporate moves. 

After Bank of America announced it would stop offering services to legally operated American companies, it claimed changes would only affect manufacturers of “military style” firearms. This deliberately vague term is used by anti-Second Amendment activists and politicians to incorrectly categorize modern, semi-automatic sporting rifles as equivalent to weapons used by armed forces. As the military uses shotguns, rifles and handguns, it also leaves the door wide open for future hostile incursions from banks.