BUSINESS/GUNS/NRA: “Some of the biggest names in corporate America are coming under mounting pressure on Friday [2-23-18] to cut ties with the National Rifle Association as gun safety activists intensified calls for a boycott in the wake of last week’s Florida high school massacre.
The social media-fueled campaign has already led a range of corporations, from a major insurer to three car rental brands, to severe their relationships with the NRA gun rights advocacy group. Amazon.com Inc and other online streaming platforms are facing demands to drop the online video channel NRATV, featuring programming produced by the group.
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, founded after the December 2012 Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting that killed 20 first-graders, sent letters to Apple Inc, AT&T Inc, Amazon, Alphabet Inc’s Google division and Roku Inc on Friday, asking them to drop NRATV from their products…
The U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment protects the right to bear arms and the NRA argues that stricter gun control would erode individual rights. The NRA has not commented on companies severing ties.
The latest company to distance itself from the NRA was insurer Chubb Ltd, which on Friday said it would stop underwriting a controversial NRA-branded insurance policy for gun owners that covers legal costs in self-defense shootings.
Symantec Corp said on Friday it ended a program with the NRA offering discounts for its LifeLock identity theft product.”
-Barbara Goldberg, “Corporate America under pressure to cut ties with NRA,” Retuers, Feb. 23, 2018 06:25am