Breaking News: These are the companies cutting ties with the NRA after Florida shooting - News Paper

Delta. Hertz. MetLife. Symantec. TrueCar.

Multiple companies are cutting ties with the National Rifle Association in the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida that left 17 people dead. Several corporations, ranging from Delta to Hertz to MetLife, have said they will end discount agreements with the NRA or otherwise sever ties with the nation’s largest gun advocacy group. The NRA, like the AARP or AAA, promotes discounts in order to entice potential members to join. Its “member benefits” page advertises discounts on insurance, car rentals, travel, and even a wine club. Many of the companies offering such discounts and other NRA-related benefits, products, or services have split.

The NRA has lately remained defiant in its unequivocal pro-gun stance, despite growing public pressure for lawmakers, regulators, and, increasingly, corporate America to do something on guns. It released a video this week blaming the “mainstream media” for mass shootings in America, and Wayne LaPierre, head of the NRA, told an audience at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday that the post-Parkland gun control push is the result of socialism. “Their solution is to make you, all of you, less free,” he said. At CPAC, Dana Loesch, the NRA’s national spokeswoman, said that “many in legacy media love mass shootings.” CNN’s Alisyn Camerota hit back at Loesch’s assertion on Friday. “You’re wrong on every single level,” she said. Stephen Crockett Jr. at the Root called Loesch’s comments “deranged.”

The Parkland shooting — and the NRA’s absurd, insensitive response to it — has increased pressure from consumers and activists on companies to cut ties. The hashtag #BoycottNRA has begun to pop up on Twitter.

Apple, Amazon, and Google are also under pressure to drop NRAtv, the lobbying group’s streaming channel. They have yet to act. A number of companies are sticking by the NRA, at least for now, including FedEx, which has been under activist pressure to end its discount for the NRA for over a year.

What @shannoncoulter said.

We’ve been asking them for 15 months why they support Breitbart’s bigotry without one word back. This one will not blow over. https://t.co/ZH6d1Pa9Z5

— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) February 24, 2018

Here’s a list of which companies, so far, have cut ties with the NRA:

• Enterprise Holdings, operator of Enterprise, Alamo, and National Car Rental, said they were ending discount programs. [link?]
• TrueCar ended its car buying service relationship.
• Hertz ended its rental car discount program.

We have notified the NRA that we are ending the NRA’s rental car discount program with Hertz.

— Hertz (@Hertz) February 23, 2018

• Avis said it will end its NRA member discount in March.
• Symantec, which owns Norton AntiVirus and LifeLock, severed its partnership discount program.
• MetLife ended its discount program for NRA members.
• SimpliSafe, a home security company, said it ended its relationship with the NRA.
• Best Western said it has no affiliation with the NRA, nor is a corporate partner. It is unclear when it cut ties.

Best Western® Hotels & Resorts does not have an affiliation with and is not a corporate partner of the National Rifle Association.

— Best Western (@BestWestern) February 22, 2018

• Wyndham Hotels appears to have cut ties with the NRA in late 2017, before Parkland.
• First National Bank of Omaha said it would stop issuing co-branded credit cards with the NRA.
• United Airlines said it would no longer offer its special rate for the NRA’s annual meeting.

United is notifying the NRA that we will no longer offer a discounted rate to their annual meeting and we are asking that the NRA remove our information from their website.

— United Airlines (@united) February 24, 2018

• Delta ended its contract for group travel discounts.

Delta is reaching out to the NRA to let them know we will be ending their contract for discounted rates through our group travel program. We will be requesting that the NRA remove our information from their website.

— Delta (@Delta) February 24, 2018

• Insurer Chubb said it would stop underwriting NRA-branded insurance for gun owners. Per Reuters, it made the decision months ago.

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