David Hogg Celebrates Birthday Targeting Banks that Finance Gunmakers

Gun control activist David Hogg is celebrating his birthday by targeting banks that do business with gun manufacturers.

Hogg tweeted:

Hogg scored short-term celebrity status urging companies to cut ties with gun manufacturers and/or the NRA following the February 14, 2018, attack on Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Breitbart News reported that within ten days of the attack, more than a dozen companies severed relationships with the NRA. Those companies included:

• Alamo Rent a Car
• Avis
• Allied Van Lines
• Budget
• Chubb Insurance
• Hertz
• North American Van Lines
• Paramount Rx
• SimpliSafe
• Delta Airlines
• United
• Best Western
• Metlife

Banks were pressured to stop all financial relationships with gun manufacturers, and many capitulated, Citigroup and Bank of America among them. But Wells Fargo refused to cave, contending that it is not a bank’s job to set national gun policy.

Reuters quoted Wells Fargo chief financial officer John Shrewsberry, who said, “The best way to make progress on these issues is through the political and legislative process. In the meantime, Wells Fargo is engaging our customers that legally manufacture firearms and other stakeholders on what we can do together to promote better gun safety in our communities.”

Hogg is asking Wells Fargo’s customers to abandon the bank for his birthday.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.