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Old 04-24-2012, 06:00 AM
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McMillan Group International wrote on their Facebook page yesterday that Bank of America no longer wants their business? Why? Because of the nature of the business: guns.

According to the company’s Facebook post. McMillan, one of the most well-known and respected brands in the firearms industry, had been “collectively banking with Bank of America for 12 years. Yesterday, however, after a meeting originally scheduled as an “account analysis” with Ray Fox, a Senior Vice President with Bank of America, McMillan was informed the bank no longer wanted their business.

Fox initially began talking about how McMillan had changed in the last 5 years, becoming “more of a firearms manufacturer than a supplier of accessories. ”Kelly McMillan, Director of Operations for McMillan Group International, interrupted: “Can I possibly save you some time so 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 want my business." Fox responded, “That is correct.”

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I'll be closing my BoA account today.
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BoA is whom I bank with and this is indeed disturbing, if true.
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Old 04-24-2012, 07:04 AM
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I wouldn't be banking with BoA anyway.

I deal with them as our credit card processor. I have less than wonderful or professional dealings with them, and unfortunately, there isn't a whole lot I can do about it.

I have to wonder what brought about this situation, the BOD or a personal decision?
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Oh you people are funny. You didn't get involved when we were having a "Close your Bank account" day. But this gets your goat? Geeez. I'll tell ya what. I will venture that all the banks have accounts with abortion clinics. So you anti abortion folks should run right out and close those accounts shouldn't you? I would bet banks are involved in lots of things you don't support. Are you going to look in to it or wait for FOX to rile you up?
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Oh you people are funny. You didn't get involved when we were having a "Close your Bank account" day. But this gets your goat? Geeez. I'll tell ya what. I will venture that all the banks have accounts with abortion clinics. So you anti abortion folks should run right out and close those accounts shouldn't you? I would bet banks are involved in lots of things you don't support. Are you going to look in to it or wait for FOX to rile you up?
You have the telescope backwards again. I keep telling you that you look in the little end!

This isn't about the Bank doing business with someone we object to, it's about them boycotting someone in a business which we admire.
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You have the telescope backwards again. I keep telling you that you look in the little end!

This isn't about the Bank doing business with someone we object to, it's about them boycotting someone in a business which we admire.
It's none of your business what the bank does. Or it is. Which is it?
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BofA said what they would do. How is that shooting someone in the back?
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Gosh, you don't suppose an all powerful junta created by Dodd/Frank in the Federal Reserve with the authority to dictate banking activities is playing politics? Naw it is certain friends of the OA like Soilyndra and GM don' t have problems getting credit.
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Gosh, you don't suppose an all powerful junta created by Dodd/Frank in the Federal Reserve with the authority to dictate banking activities is playing politics? Naw it is certain friends of the OA like Soilyndra and GM don' t have problems getting credit.
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