Financial partners drop NRA after Fla. school shootings
Corporate partners have dropped the gun lobby and shooting-sports promotion group, deciding it is not good business to join their brands to the
The move follows public complaints about the gun lobby's resistance to legislation whose backers have sought to limit access to "assault rifles" like the AR-15, a popular model among gun hobbyists which was used by killers at Parkland and in other school massacres.
The giant insurance company Chubb, a successor to
In a statement, spokesman
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The group that controls Enterprise, National, and
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And internet-security platform
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"Affinity relationships" between college alumni and other membership groups and financial companies, airlines, and other companies grew in the 1980s and '90s. Payments to the groups could total in the tens of millions; Penn State collected more than
In the early 1980s, the
After that, "the program was available for decades -- and nobody would touch it," a banker still active in credit cards told me, asking that I not identify him by name.
"There was no question in our minds that the
"At Juniper, we had the chance to get the
After Juniper and other banks declined
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