Most gun owners and Second Amendment supporters are quite aware of the efforts by gun-grabbers to infringe upon their natural rights, tell them what they can and can’t buy, or even to confiscate their rightful and lawfully owned property.
Chief among these gun-grabbers is the group known as Moms Demand Action for Gunsense in America, a Michael Bloomberg-funded lobbying group that purports to be a grassroots organization with the sole intent of chipping away at our gun rights by demonizing gun owners and utilizing pressure and smear campaigns to get their way.
The Moms Demand group launched a series of pressure and smear campaigns across the nation over the past couple of years, targeting specific companies in a bid to force them to change their policies regarding the lawful carrying of a weapons, either openly or concealed, in their places of business.
Though the demanding moms have seen some success in their efforts, most recently with The Fresh Market, they have also suffered five notable and resounding defeats, according to Breitbart.
Gun sense is spreading! Let’s thank The Fresh Market for saying NO to guns in stores! → https://t.co/2KPhVl49Yxpic.twitter.com/KLvZhve9kY
— Moms Demand Action (@MomsDemand) April 4, 2016
Starbucks: In 2013, Moms Demand Action went after Starbucks for their supposedly gun-friendly policies, eventually reporting that they had succeeded in getting the corporation to ban all guns from their locations around the country.
In truth, they secured no such victory as CEO Howard Schultz later clarified that he had simply “requested” that open carriers not be so flamboyant about it, and “requested” an end to the so-called “Starbucks Appreciation Days” in which gun owners would flock to the coffee chain outlets and post pictures to social media including their coffee and guns.
Staples: In 2014, Moms Demand Action targeted office supply chain Staples, even attempting to march into the corporate headquarters to hand deliver a gun-ban petition to CEO Ron Sargent. The only thing the demanding moms succeeded in doing at Staples was getting promptly escorted out of the building by security, which is as far as their proposed gun ban went.
Kroger: Later in 2014, the anti-gun moms set their sights on the Kroger chain of grocery stores, attempting to pressure them into banning guns on their property. After only two weeks, Kroger essentially told the moms to take a hike, as their policy of abiding by local gun laws would remain their corporate gun policy.
Kroger CFO Michael Schlotman later explained that his company flatly rejected the demanding moms because they believed that gun laws were best set by legislators, and not by grocery stores or special interest lobbying groups.
Fred Meyer: Following their stunning defeat at Kroger, Moms Demand Action then absurdly went after Kroger subsidiary Fred Meyer, who instantly shut the campaign down the very day it was launched by reaffirming that they would follow whatever the state and local laws were.
Target: Moms Demand Action made quite a bit of noise when they announced a victory over gun carriers at Target, thinking they had scored an agreement with the retail chain to ban guns on their premises.
However, the interim CEO’s statement that “guests not bring firearms into Target” was immediately clarified by PR group manager Molly Snyder, who made it clear that the CEO’s statement had been “a request and not a prohibition.”
All of these businesses could have caved in to the intense pressure, both through special interest groups like Moms Demand Action and an anti-gun media, not to mention demagoguing politicians, but instead chose to respect both local laws and their gun-owning customers.
Of course, we would have preferred a bit stronger defense of our rights by those companies that “requested” gun owners not come in armed, but we nevertheless commend them for not fully caving in to the pressure and actually instituting a company-wide gun ban policy, as was demanded by the moms.
Sadly, these crushing defeats have not stopped the anti-gunners, who simply hide under a rock until they spot the next opportunistic target that they think they can pressure and smear into discriminating against and violating the rights of lawful gun carriers who patronize their business or service.
Thankfully, at least some businesses have sense enough to ignore those emotional demanding moms that are trying to do away with a fundamental natural right that is protected by the Constitution.
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http://conservativetribune.com/5-companies-gun-grabbing-moms/