Ain’t politics grand?

/ hsoi

This was posted at the McMilian Group International Facebook page (h/t to Rog and Dock)

McMillan Fiberglass Stocks, McMillan Firearms Manufacturing, McMillan Group International have been collectively banking with Bank of America for 12 years. Today Mr. Ray Fox, Senior Vice President, Market Manager, Business Banking, Global Commercial Banking came to my office. He scheduled the meeting as an “account analysis” meeting in order to evaluate the two lines of credit we have with them. He spent 5 minutes talking about how McMillan has changed in the last 5 years and have become more of a firearms manufacturer than a supplier of accessories.
At this point I interrupted him and asked “Can I possible save you some time so that you don’t waste your breath? What you are going to tell me is that because we are in the firearms manufacturing business you no longer what my business.”
“That is correct” he says.
I replied “That is okay, we will move our accounts as soon as possible. We can find a 2nd Amendment friendly bank that will be glad to have our business. You won’t mind if I tell the NRA, SCI and everyone one I know that BofA is not firearms industry friendly?”
“You have to do what you must” he said.
“So you are telling me this is a politically motivated decision, is that right?”
Mr Fox confirmed that it was. At which point I told him that the meeting was over and there was nothing let for him to say.

I think it is import for all Americans who believe in and support our 2nd amendment right to keep and bear arms should know when a business does not support these rights. What you do with that knowledge is up to you. When I don’t agree with a business’ political position I can not in good conscience support them. We will soon no longer be accepting Bank of America credit cards as payment for our products.

Kelly D McMillan
Director of Operations
McMillan Group International, LLC
623-582-9635
www.mcmillanusa.com

As if you need another reason to leave Bank of America. Or for some, I’m sure it means a reason to bank with BoA… but hey, you enjoy your victim-rich zone.

7 thoughts on “Ain’t politics grand?”

  1. [digression at start] i guess you’ve read by now that the recent mac flashback outbreak was fueled by code injected into wordpress blogs, but i’m using my work pc, so i only hope our enterprise firewall keeps me safe, but if not, it’s the pc that gets it and not the mac! [g]

    anyway, this article sounds like the typical right wing fud i get every day (with one exception, below). i haven’t been able to buy ammo for 3 years due to them convincing all their idiot followers that the bad black man is going to outlaw or limit its purchase. which is funny, because, last i heard, the extended magazine/assault weapons limits were allowed to expire on this watch–hardly a firearms-hostile environment.

    not knowing anything about the banking industry, but knowing how large boa is, i find it inconceivable that they would risk forfeit of all their firearms accounts, most of which are most likely far, far larger than this company. i find it more likely that this complaining company is in some sort of self-made trouble and trying to either get out in front of it or to smokescreen it by a preemptive strike at the bank. which, i admit is somewhat out of character since the norm is usually alibis for the corporations (hey, they’re ‘people’!).

    and yes, i abhor defending a bank. but i abhor the unremitting fud from the right much much more. and, without more information, this just sounds like more typical fud.

    /guy

    • “last i heard, the extended magazine/assault weapons limits were allowed to expire on this watch–hardly a firearms-hostile environment.”

      Are you referring to the AWB that was allowed to sunset in 2004 under the Bush administration?

    • It’s possible there’s more to this. But this is a rather public posting, and if it’s not the case I expect Monday morning BoA will issue a rebuttal or clarification or other response.

      Is it FUD? I don’t think so. Perhaps all the “Obama’s gonna ban guns if he’s re-elected” is FUD, but this, at least as it stands now, doesn’t appear to be FUD… just telling what happened. I don’t see how McMillan is trying to spread fear, uncertainty, or doubt here… they’re just telling what happened with a BoA exec came to visit.

  2. John, do you have a list, or any info, about banks that have a proven pro-2nd Amendment history?

  3. Wow, after all the other gaffs that lead to a huge loss of customers, Bank of America goes and proverbially shoots themselves in the foot.

    We bailed them out, why? They do a disservice to the name of our country.

    • I find something odd about how they label themselves the bank of America, but aren’t doing very much to reflect what America is… tho perhaps, they’re trying to reflect what America is becoming. *shrug*

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