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Biden Administration Takes First Step to Reinstating Operation Choke Point Banking Restrictions

President Joe Biden (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) One of the last things the Trump administration did before leaving town was to have the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency adopt a new rule preventing discrimination…


Payment Processor Square Forces Book Store Closure Over Non-Firing Gun Replica Guns

Replica gun sold by the now-closed Columbia Bookseller and Variety Store. (Photo credit: Columbia Bookseller and Variety Store) This story comes rather unsurprisingly from California. A bookstore by the name of Columbia Booksellers and Variety…


Public Comments Needed to Stop Financial Industry Gun Control

Brian Moynihan, Chairman and CEO of Bank of America (AP Photo/Michael Probst) The ATF’s allegedly objective factors regarding pistol stabilizing braces isn’t the only government proposal that’s worthy of your attention. On the other side…


Two Antitrust Democrats OK Taking Money From Big Banks Working Against the Firearms Industry

Shutterstock By Larry Keane Any other year, taking money from an industry that’s conducting barred activity would be called corruption. Not in election years, though, and not when it comes to banks and guns. Congressional…


Senators Warn US Banks Not to Deny COVID-19 Relief to Gun Industry Customers

By Larry Keane U.S. Senators are warning big banks not to use the recent pandemic recovery funds as a bludgeon against industries they find out of fashion. In other words, don’t use taxpayer funds as…