While there are plenty of Operation Chokepoint victims,
Any links to that?
I'm not saying it's not happening, what we see here is likely low hanging fruit for the Administration. They don't need to expend much political capital to shut down a business for a bank loan that the lender feels is sketchy.
It's a consolidation loan - didn't work out - risky in a time when gun sales are at record highs? I doubt the bank was even asked by anyone to reconsider. They already had red flags up.
Now, show me a business in good standing where The Government moved to pressure a lender to refuse it a loan - in this market - and maybe there's a case. But to my way of thinking, it's just a talking point with more hype than substance and it's being used to deflect our attention from other issues, like, oh, gee, what was that called, yeah, Fast and Furious.
You want a conspiracy theory, were any of these distressed dealers running shops that had AR's walk across the border? Shutting them down means the business records are no longer available, the FFL books become inaccessible, nobody can pry into the last few years records, etc.
I think statements like this are creating an illusion there is a big problem:
Thousands of gun retailers have had their bank accounts forcibly closed, despite engaging in no illegal activity whatsoever.
Read more at
http://www.westernjournalism.com/stunner-obama-scheme-shutting-legal-gun-stores/#q08kExtaE0uEZ5Gm.99
If it's really happening, then I want to see a list of the THOUSANDS of gun dealers who are affected. Otherwise I have to think it's just right wing hype to churn up the masses, same as the erroneous "school shootings" stats that were found to be 80% wrong.
Thousands? That means plural, minimum two - 2 - to make it happen, so 2000 dealers divided by 50 states equal 40 in YOUR state with banking loans in the trash can.
Ask YOUR dealer is there's a problem and I doubt anyone will come up with five, much less 40 statewide. I realize demographics and reality shift the numbers - there are more gun dealers in the Bentonville/Fayetteville metros than SW MO. Name the ones who are shutting down.
If they don't make up any more than the normal numbers who go under, then we've proven there's no teeth to Operation Chokepoint and it's all just another political sham.