The NRA and other pro-Second Amendment groups recently wrote to some of the nation’s leading banks who have allegedly engaged in “revisionist history” in attempts to conceal records of efforts to debank gun owners under both the Obama and Biden administrations.
The “NRA is holding big banks accountable for trying to whitewash their decades of discriminatory debanking against gun manufacturers, retailers, and advocacy groups,” posted the NRA on X.
The letter was sent to the heads of JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and the Bank Policy Institute, and requested the organizations’ debanking records. The letter refers to such policies as “un-American” and challenged the organizations to pledge against debanking those who engage in activities protected by the Second Amendment in the future.
“The assault on our gun manufacturers, retailers, and aligned organizations has been a brazen and ideologically driven campaign to undermine the Constitutionally protected right of all Americans to keep and bear arms,” reads the letter. “Our industry has faced relentless attacks and discriminatory treatment for decades. We have been shut out of mainstream financial institutions.”
This comes after President Donald Trump (R) signed an executive order last month titled “Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans” that protects Americans from unlawfully being debanked due to their “political affiliations, religious beliefs or lawful business activities.”
The executive order specifically referenced the Obama administration’s disastrous Operation Chokepoint and said, “Bank regulators have used supervisory scrutiny and other influence over regulated banks to direct or otherwise encourage politicized or unlawful debanking activities.”
The NRA is joined on the letter by the American Suppressor Association, the Second Amendment Foundation, Gun Owners of America, the National Association for Gun Rights and the Citizen Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
“An equal application of rules and standards across industries is critical for fairness and ensuring the rights of law-abiding gun owners are not infringed. We look forward to your prompt response,” concludes the letter.
