Avoid Supporting These Companies if You Value Your Gun Rights
Dec 17, 2018

By: Teresa Mull

Corporate gun control is a very real danger. David French, writing recently in National Review, declared it “…a threat that can choke off financing for the gun industry, stifle speech about guns, and lock the gun-rights community into offline (and small online) ghettos that restrict their ability to communicate.”

GPM, with the help of other pro-gun groups, has compiled a growing list of anti-gun businesses those who value their Second Amendment rights should boycott. You can also click here to sign a petition to boycott these companies.

This list will be updated as more companies move to restrict their customers’ rights to keep and bear arms.

Amazon Web Services
Amazon restricted user access to codeisfreespeech.com,, where users could access blueprints for making guns with a 3D printer.

Avis and Budget Car Rentals
Avis and Budget ended its participation in the NRA rewards program in March 2018.

Bank of America
Bank of America said in April it would stop financing manufacturers that make military-inspired firearms for civilians, such as AR-15s.

Buffalo Wild Wings
“In 2009, [Buffalo Wild Wings] announced a blanket no-gun policy at all of its locations,” ConservativeReview.com reports.

Citi Bank
Citi Bank told its retail business partners to prohibit the sale of firearms to customers younger than 21 and to those who have not passed a background check.

Chipotle
In 2014, Chipotle asked that customers not bring guns into its restaurants because “the display of firearms in our restaurants has now created an environment that is potentially intimidating or uncomfortable for many of our customers.”

Craigslist
Craiglist’s user policy prohibits weapons; firearms/guns and components; BB/pellet, stun, and spear guns; etc., ammunition, clips, cartridges, reloading materials, gunpowder, fireworks, and explosives.

Delta Airlines
Delta tweeted in February 2018 that it was ending the NRA’s contract for discounted rates and “requesting that the NRA remove our information from their website.”

Dick’s Sporting Goods/Field & Stream
The chain store enacted a new policy in 2018 that halted the sale of so-called “assault-style weapons” in their Field & Stream stores. The company announced it would destroy all the weapons pulled from its shelves. Dick’s CEO has since announced sales are down, and they may have to close the Field & Stream line of stores.

Enterprise Holdings (Alamo, Enterprise, and National)
Enterprise ended its discount program with the NRA amid the #BoycottNRA movement of 2018.

Facebook
Facebook prohibits ads that “promote the sale or use of weapons, ammunition, or explosives. This includes ads for weapon modification accessories.”

FedEx
FedEx ended the discount it offered NRA members shipping firearms after Gays Against Guns staged protests.

Hertz
Hertz ended its discount program with the NRA amid pressure from gun control groups.

Instagram
Instagram’s user policy says it prohibits buying or selling firearms.

Kroger
Kroger owns Fred Meyer stores, which no longer sell firearms to people under the age of 21.

Levi Strauss
Levi Strauss’s CEO announced in 2018 the iconic American denim company will be donating $1 million to Michael Bloomberg and gun control groups.

L.L. Bean
L.L. Bean no longer sells guns or ammo to people under the age of 21.

Reddit
Reddit updated its policies to forbid “[soliciting] or [facilitating]” transactions involving firearms, including “gun sales, drug sales, prostitution, stolen goods, personal information, and counterfeit official documents.”

REI
“The Seattle-based outdoor retailer said March 1 [2018] that it was halting future orders of some popular brands — including CamelBak water carriers, Giro helmets and Camp Chef stoves — whose parent company, Vista Outdoor, also makes assault-style rifles,” The Los Angeles Times reported.

Salesforce
Salesforce, a giant tech company, announced it won’t work with companies that sell “semi-automatic weapons, 3D-printed guns, and a range of accessories, including large-capacity magazines, and devices that make semi-automatic guns fully automatic,” The Verge reports.

Shopify
Shopify changed its user policy to prohibit the sale of certain firearms and accessories. Retailers who use the platform say this move will likely cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Starbucks
Starbucks published an open letter in 2013 from its CEO asking patrons not to bring firearms into Starbucks stores or seating areas.

Target
Target issued a statement in 2014 saying, “Bringing firearms to Target creates an environment that is at odds with the family-friendly shopping and work experience we strive to create. Starting today we will also respectfully request that guests not bring firearms to Target – even in communities where it is permitted by law.”

Toms Shoes
Toms announced it will use $5 million to advance universal background checks.

Twitter
Twitter’s user policy says it “prohibits the promotion of weapons and weapon accessories globally.”

United Airlines
United has ended its partnership with the NRA.

Walmart
Walmart raised the age for purchase of firearms and ammunition from 18 to 21 years old and removed “online items resembling assault-style rifles.”

Waffle House
ConcealedCarry.com reports:

"Unfortunately Waffle House has a history of being an anti-gun company. In an interview with Second Amendment Check, a member of Waffle House's corporate office said to them that the company did not agree with citizen's second amendment rights within their restaurants.

"'She told us they ban firearms in every location, except for law enforcement. She believes all locations are posted as gun free zones.'"

Wyndham Hotel Group
Wyndham ended its affiliation with the NRA amidst pressure from the gun control lobby.

YouTube
YouTube curtailed content intending to sell firearms or provide instructions on firearm manufacturing.

Keep in mind…
Ryan Flugaur, Director of Federal Affairs at the National Association for Gun Rights, told Gunpowder Magazine to keep in mind:

Sometimes anti-gun businesses can be tricky to identify
o Sometimes corporate policy will ban guns, other times only local franchise owners choose to ban them, not the company as a whole.
o Sometimes state or local law will supersede corporate policy, placating a business or franchise owner as anti-gun even if they’re not.
o Sometimes these legal restrictions or company decisions only apply to open carry, not concealed carry, or only apply to restaurants (or portions thereof) that serve alcohol.
o Corporate policies can be very different for employees than they are for patrons.
o So can storage in a car parked on company property or possession in a company’s parking lot.

Potential consequences for violating these bans
o Depending on state and local law but violating one of these policies could result in either being asked to leave by the owner (trespassing at worse), or a serious criminal act resulting in arrest and prosecution on firearm charges.

Teresa Mull is editor of Gunpowder Magazine. Contact her at teresa@gunpowdermagazine.com.

https://www.gunpowdermagazine....lue-your-gun-rights/

I’m not disagreeing that many of the companies on that list, I wouldn’t want to support.

Some of what is in that list, is there to cover the company’s ass. Not selling firearms to anyone under 21. They are covering their ass, as many Fred Meyer employees don’t know what is allowed for the 18-21 age range.

The loss if a discount to NRA members sucks. Part of me thinks that if Wayne had given up the reigns a few years ago, we would still have support from more of these businesses.

I don't really give a hoot about companies ending their nra discounts.

I also don't fault companies like target who have never sold firearms from the beginning. That's their choice as a company.


That's not in the same league as Dicks and Wal-Mart stopping sales of firearms. Those companies have long standing traditions of providing for gun owners and sold them out to virtue signal.

I can understand Amazon web services not allowing 3d printing files and such because of the BS going on in NJ over them. I doubt that's the reason but it gives them an out.

What I really care about is financials services and banks like BOA taking it upon themselves the inflict damage on the firearms industry. If there's entity that should be compelled to do business as long as it's not illegal, it needs to be banks and financial institutions. They are necessary for the survival of any company.

Thankfully, there are still finanical institutions would value profits and money over virtue signaling but that's where we really need to keep out focus. Not on NRA discounts...

Invacare Corp, the largest manufacturer of homecare hospital beds and wheelchairs has a very strict anti-gun policy. The irony is a piece of their business comes from gun violence and accidentals. Which in their case, is good for business.

I can't recall seeing "no guns" signage on the local Waffle House locations.

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I also don't fault companies like target who have never sold firearms from the beginning

Target used to sell ammunition and firearms but stopped many years ago.

The irony to me is that Ruger uses FedEx when one needs to ship a firearm back to them for service.

Agreed, I vote with my wallet as often as possible.

How much do you want to bet the same people who say boycott this and that still utilize them.

But but, I need to ship this via FedEx, and fly UA because of this great promotional fare, and watch this great video on YouTube, and buy this great Made in China deal available only on Amazon...

Should we boycott SIG NH, since they use FedEx for their firearm shipping?

They don't even have PayPal listed. Wonder why.

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I also don't fault companies like target who have never sold firearms from the beginning

Target used to sell ammunition and firearms but stopped many years ago.

Huh... Looks like they stopped 35+ years ago when I was an infant. Pardon my ignorance. That was before they expanded nationwide and anyone knew the brand.

Not all of those companies' policies are equally offensive, but there are a few I have refused to do business with as a result, with Dick's, Levis, REI, and Starbucks at the top of the list.

I worked at a Target in the early ‘80s and bought a few guns as well as ammunition from the store I worked at in North Texas, Wichita Falls.

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I can't recall seeing "no guns" signage on the local Waffle House locations.

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Yeah me either. Their restaurants rank near the top when it come to violence. Wrestling patrons on the floor, exhibitionists, drunk rednecks you name it they got it! Even Kid Rock got into it at a Georgia location.

Reddit is also now partially owned by the Chinese government (indirectly via Tencent Holdings), to the tune of $300 Million worth of dollars invested, and the pro or at lesst neutral CCP lean has been evident there for a while now. Plenty to be suspicious and aware of.

If the NRA got rid of it's money grubbing, poor quality, leadership, I suspect some of these companies would be more reasonable.

There are about a half-dozen of those companies I do business with anyway.

2 or 3 of them are on the list because they bumped the age to 21 to cover their ass. Can't fault them for that.

If you use the internet AT ALL, it's damn near impossible to avoid Amazon Web Services.

IMHO a lot of that list amounts to reverse virtue signalling, if I may coin a phrase.

No doubt anti-2A affects some of decisions but it is not a hard and fast rule or boycott.
Some places like Dicks I will never darken their doors and others you can't avoid like Amazon.
Just because some one doesn't want me to carry - is just their opinion, IMO, concealed nobody knows until you need to use it.

Where's the list of "gun friendly" alternatives?

Corporate policy plays no part in whether or not I would disarm to enter an establishment. Look for the anti's to give these policies the force of law, e.g. by assuming trespass if violated. I suspect that it is already this way in some locations, viz. the Texas 30.06 signage.

With regards to Waffle House, the signage is on the wall outside off to the side and up a few feet.
Doesn’t matter to me as concealed is concealed. No way in hell I’d go in one unarmed, or anywhere else actually, even though I only go there for breakfast once in a while and only at one of my local ones.

A company has to go full retard for me to stop using them, BOA and Dick's are two of them. Signs on the door don't mean squat here in GA