USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- Do you watch movies at AMC Theaters? Was the film produced by Bad Robot?
- Do you eat at Chipotle, Shake Shack, Panera, Burger King, or Subway, or have a meal delivered by Door Dash?
- Do you wear clothes from Levi Strauss, the Gap, or Gucci?
- Do you watch CNN, MTV, NBC, HBO, MSNBC, or Showtime?
- Do you browse Tinder, Yelp, eBay, or Pinterest on a Microsoft computer with Comcast internet?
- Do you shop at Costco?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you have financially supported companies that want to strip us of our God-given constitutional rights.
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms maintains a list of anti-gun businesses, which is also known as the “Don’t feed them” list.
To be added to the list, a company and/or their decision-makers have either instituted an anti-gun corporate policy or lobbied lawmakers to draft or support anti-gun legislation. In other words, they had to take action – anti-gun action – against the Second Amendment. None of the firms made the list by accident.
“We’re not calling for a boycott of these companies,” CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb said last year when four more firms were added to the list. “But we are providing this information to American gun owners so they can make informed decisions about where to spend their hard-earned money without unknowingly supporting efforts to erode an important constitutional right.”
One of the beauties of the American Free-Market system is that it allows business leaders to run their company in any manner they choose, and the marketplace will then decide whether their decisions were prudent or ill-conceived.
Like Mr. Gottlieb, I don’t support boycotts as they’re a favored tactic of the gun prohibitionists. Nowadays, they seem ready to scream “BOYCOTT!” for even the most minor of reasons or for no reason at all. Still, I work hard for my money, so I would rather patronize a business that supports my constitutional rights – all of my constitutional rights. Therefore, I use the list to screen out those firms that don’t support me. That’s not a boycott. It’s being an informed consumer.
Some of the businesses won’t be missed. I’ve never needed a $1,350 Gucci man-purse, especially after they donated $500,000 to March for Our Lives. I don’t watch CNN or MSLSD, browse Tinder, eat at Burger King or subscribe to HBO, especially since the Sopranos ended.
Costco, on the other hand, will be difficult. I hope someone talks some sense into their CEO, Craig Jelinek. This gun owner already misses his great deals.
The following companies and/or their decision-makers have instituted anti-firearm corporate policy or have pressed lawmakers to enact further strict legislation.
| 20/20 Vision | Cheryl Plank | CEO |
| A&M Records | Herb Alpert | CEO |
| AlleyCorp | Kevin Ryan | Founder and CEO |
| Alphabet, Inc. | Sundar Pichai | CEO |
| Amalgamated Bank | Keith Mestrich | President and CEO |
| Ambition | TravisTruett | Co-Founder and CEO |
| AMC Theatres | Adam Aron | CEO |
| AOL / Time Warner | Jason Kilar | CEO |
| Ariel Investments LLC | John W. Rogers, Jr. | CEO |
| Artsy | Mike Steib | CEO |
| Ascend.io | Sean Knapp | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Aspiration | Andrei Cherny | Co-Founder and CEO |
| AT&T | Randal Stephenson | CEO |
| Aura | Abdur Chowdhury | CEO |
| Backpack | Fahim Aziz | Founder and CEO |
| Bad Robot | Fahim Aziz | Founder and CEO |
| Bain Capital | John Connaughton | Co-Managing Partner / Co-Chairman |
| Bank of America | Brian Moynihan | CEO |
| Beeswax | AriPaparo | CEO |
| Begin | Ryan Block | Co-Founder |
| Betaworks | John Borthwick | Founder and CEO |
| Beyond Meat | Ethan Brown | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Bloomberg LP | Peter Grauer | Chairman |
| Bonusly | Raphael Crawford-Marks | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Brat | Darren Lachtman | Co-Founder |
| Brookfield Property | Ric Clark | Chairman |
| Brud | Trevor McFedries | CEO |
| Bumble | Whitney Herd | CEO |
| Burger King | Daniel Schwartz | CEO |
| Cambly | Sameer Shariff | Co-Founder |
| Catch & Release | Analisa Goodin | Founder and CEO |
| Cerebras Systems | Andrew Feldman | Founder and CEO |
| Chipotle | Brian Niccol | CEO |
| Circle Medical | George Favvas | CEO |
| ClassPass | Fritz Lanman | CEO |
| Clearbit | Alex MacCaw | CEO |
| Clever | Tyler Bosmeny | CEO |
| Clockwise | Matt Martin | Co-Founder and CEO |
| CNN | Jeff Zucker | CEO |
| Color Genomics | Othman Laraki | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Comcast | Brian Roberts | CEO |
| Conde Nast | Roger Lynch | CEO |
| Costco | Craig Jelinek | CEO |
| Credit Karma | Ken Lin | Founder and CEO |
| Crunchbase | Jager McConnell | CEO |
| Curalate | Apu Gupta | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Curtsy | David Oates | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Dannon | Juan Dalto | CEO |
| Delta Airlines | Ed Bastian | CEO |
| DICK’S Sporting Goods | Edward Stack | CEO |
| Disney Company | Bob Chapek | CEO |
| DoorDash | Tony Xu | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Doxel, Inc. | Saurabh Ladha | CEO |
| Ebay | Jamie Iannone | CEO |
| Ecolab | Doug Baker | Chairman and CEO |
| Edelman | Richard Edelman | President and CEO |
| Elektra Labs | Andy Coravos | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Emerson Collective | Laurene Powell Jobs | President |
| Enterprise | Chrissy Taylor | CEO |
| Eventbrite | Julia Hartz | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Farmstead | Pradeep Elankumaran | Co-Founder & CEO |
| Full Picture | Desiree Gruber | CEO |
| Fundera | Jared Hecht | Founder and CEO |
| Gap Inc. | Art Peck | CEO |
| Gateway Computers | James Coleman | CEO |
| GE | Lawrence Culp | CEO |
| GEICO | Todd Combs | CEO |
| Goat Group | Eddy Lu | CEO |
| Golden | Jude Gomila | Founder and CEO |
| Graphic Packaging | Michael Doss | CEO |
| Group Nine Media | Ben Lerer | Co-Founder & CEO |
| Gucci | Marco Bizzarri | CEO |
| Guru | Rick Nucci | Co-Founder & CEO |
| Hallmark Cards | Mike Perry | CEO |
| Hard Rock Cafe | James Allen | CEO |
| Havas Group | Yannick Bollore | CEO |
| HBO | Richard Plepler | CEO |
| Hint, Inc. | Kara Goldin | Founder and CEO |
| HipDot | Jeff Sellinger | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Hooked | Prerna Gupta | CEO |
| Horizon Media | Bill Koenigsberg | President CEO and Founder |
| Humbition | Cyrus Massoumi | Managing Partner |
| Impossible Foods | Patrick Brown | MD, PhD, Founder and CEO |
| Insight Partners | Jeff Horing | CEO and Co-Founder |
| Interpublic | Michael Roth | Chairman and CEO |
| Intuit | Sasan Goodzari | CEO |
| JOOR | Kristin Savilia | CEO |
| Jumbo Privacy | Pierre Valade | CEO |
| Kabbage Inc. | Rob Frohwein | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Kadena | William Martino | Founder and CEO |
| Kanga | Jake Perlman-Garr | CEO |
| Kenneth Cole | Kenneth Cole | Founder and Chairmain |
| Knowable | Warren Shaeffer | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Lattice | Jack Altman | CEO |
| Levi Strauss & Co. | Chip Bergh | President and CEO |
| Los Angeles Clippers | Steve Ballmer | Owner |
| Lucent Technologies | Patricia Russo | CEO |
| Lyft | Logan Green | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Mesirow | Richard Price | Chairman and CEO |
| MetaProp.vc | Aaron Block | Co-Founder and Managing Director |
| MetLife | Michael Khalaf | CEO |
| Microsoft | Satya Nadella | CEO |
| Modern Fertility | Afton Vechery | Co-Founder and CEO |
| MongoDB Inc. | Dev Ittycheria | President and CEO |
| MSNBC | Phil Griffin | CEO |
| MTV | Chris McCarthey | CEO |
| Navient | John Remonid | CEO |
| NBC Universal | Jeff Shell | CEO |
| NCR Corp. | Michael Hayford | CEO |
| Neighborland | Dan Parham | Founder and CEO |
| NewsCred | Shafqat Islam | CEO |
| Nextdoor | Sarah Friar | CEO |
| Northwell Health | Michael Dowling | President and CEO |
| NowThis | Athan Stephanopoulos | President |
| Nurx | Varsha Rao | CEO |
| Oaktree Capital | Howard Marks | Co-Chairman |
| Oberndorf Enterprises | William E. Oberndorf | Chairman |
| Oceans | Steven Rosenblatt | Co-Founder and General Partner |
| OfferUp | Nick Huzar | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Okta | Todd McKinnon | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Omnicom Group | John Wren | Chairman and CEO |
| Openpath | James Segil | Co-Founder and President |
| Panera Bread | Niren Chaudhary | CEO |
| Parabol | Jordan Husney | CEO |
| Paravision | Doug Aley | CEO |
| Paypal | David Schulman | CEO |
| Ben Silbermann | Co-Founder and CEO | |
| Plato Design | John Milinovich | CEO |
| Postmates | Bastian Lehmann | Co-Founder & CEO |
| Presto | Rajat Suri | CEO |
| Prima | Christopher Gavigan | Founder and CEO |
| Progressive Insurance | Tricia Griffith | CEO |
| Prologis | Hamid Moghadam | Chairman and CEO |
| Publicis Groupe | Arthur Sadoun | Chairman and CEO |
| Quartzy | Adam Regelmann | Founder and COO |
| Steve Huffman | CEO | |
| Ribbon Health | Nate Maslak | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Ro | Zachariah Reitano | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Roofstock | Gary Beasley | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Royal Caribbean Cruises | Richard Fain | CEO |
| RXR Realty | Scott Rechler | Chairman and CEO |
| Sara Lee | John Bryan | CEO |
| SelfMade | Brian Schechter | CEO |
| Shake Shack | Danny Meyer | Founder |
| Shoptiques Inc. | Olga Vidisheva | Founder and CEO |
| Showtime Cable Network | David Nevins | CEO |
| Shutterstock Inc. | Jon Oringer | Founder and CEO |
| Sidewalk Labs | Dan Doctoroff | CEO |
| Sift | Jason Tan | CEO |
| Skillshare | Matt Cooper | CEO |
| SkySafe | Grant Jordan | CEO |
| Small Door | Josh Guttman | Co-Founder and CEO |
| SmartAsset | Michael Carvin | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Snapdocs, Inc. | Aaron King | Founder and CEO |
| Solve.io | Neil Capel | CEO |
| Sonic | J. Clifford Hudson | CEO |
| Southwestern Bell | Mark Keiffer | CEO |
| Splash | Ben Hindman | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Square and Twitter | Jack Dorsey | CEO |
| Squarespace | Anthony Casalena | Founder and CEO |
| Standard Bots | Evan Beard | Founder and CEO |
| Subway | Trevor Haynes | CEO |
| Sundia Corporation | Bradford Oberwager | CEO |
| Sunlight Health | Ross Feinstein | CEO |
| Superplastic | Paul Budnitz | CEO |
| SurveyMonkey | Zander Lurie | CEO |
| SV Angel | Ron Conway | Founder |
| Symantec | Vincent Pilette | CEO |
| ThirdLove | Heidi Zak | Co-Founder and Co-CEO |
| Thisopenspace inc. | Ashar Nejati | CEO |
| Thrive Capital | Joshua Kushner | Founder and Managing Partner |
| Thrive Global | Arianna Huffington | Founder and CEO |
| ThunderCore Inc. | Chris Wang | CEO |
| Tillable | Corbett Kull | CEO |
| Tinder | Sean Rad | CEO |
| TOMS | Blake Mycoskie | Founder and CEO |
| Twilio | Jeff Lawson | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Uber | Dara Khosrowshahi | CEO |
| Uniform Teeth | Meghan Jewitt | CEO |
| Viosera Therapeutics | Nicholas Goldner | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Virtual Kitchen | Ken Chong | CEO |
| Voxer | Irv Remedios | CEO |
| Voyage | Oliver Cameron | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Watsi | Chase Adam | Co-Founder and CEO |
| WayUp | Liz Wessel | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Whalar | Neil Waller | CEO |
| Wizeline | Bismarck Lepe | CEO |
| WPP | Mark Read | CEO |
| X.ai, inc. | Dennis Mortensen | Founder and CEO |
| Y Combinator | Geoff Ralston | President |
| Yelp | Jeremy Stoppelman | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Yum Brands | Greg Creed | CEO |
| Zola | Shan-Lyn Ma | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Shake Shack | Danny Meyer | CEO |
| LA Clippers | Steve Balmer | Owner |
| Insight Partners | Jeff Horing | CEO |
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About Lee Williams
Lee Williams, who is also known as “The Gun Writer,” is the chief editor of the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project. Until recently, he was also an editor for a daily newspaper in Florida. Before becoming an editor, Lee was an investigative reporter at newspapers in three states and a U.S. Territory. Before becoming a journalist, he worked as a police officer. Before becoming a cop, Lee served in the Army. He’s earned more than a dozen national journalism awards as a reporter, and three medals of valor as a cop. Lee is an avid tactical shooter.
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