The Liberal Gun Club Forum

Months after the Trump administration ended Operation Choke Point — an Obama-era policy that sought to curtail disfavored businesses by working through regulators to pressure banks into ending customer relationships — a group of 13 Republican members of the Senate Banking Committee wrote to FDIC Chairman Jelena McWilliams calling on the FDIC ensure that these practices are discontinued. The lawmakers raised concerns over recently released internal FDIC documents suggesting that banks have been verbally encouraged to curtail business relationships with disfavored but legal industries.

Specifically, the senators called on the FDIC to “review all options available to ensure lawful businesses are able to continue to operate without fear of significant financial consequences. They also asked the agency to review how it communicates policy internally.

“There is no place for a political agenda in oversight of the banking system. Operation Choke Point, and its associated culture and Choke Point-like regulatory actions, must end once and for all,” they said. “This should not be a partisan issue: no administration — Republican or Democratic — should be able to use the administrative state to silence industries they do not like.”

Maloney knows that she’ll never be able to legislate guns away as she’d like to, so instead she wants to berate a company for not doing it for her. Wells Fargo has done nothing wrong. Maloney isn’t even saying they’re doing anything remotely illegal. She’s angry because they’re willing to work with entities that she doesn’t like.

What Maloney wants, however, is a universal adoption of these rules because then it means the firearm industry has no choice but to follow these dictates regardless of what the law allows.

Regardless, Maloney’s comments are disturbing. It should disturb each and every American, regardless of political stripe. After all, if lawmakers can try and pressure banks to refuse to do business with companies operating in full compliance with all applicable laws, what do you think they’d do to an individual they disagreed with?

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