Speaking of Second Amendment rights, Breibart (but not one corporate media outlet) ran a terrific story yesterday headlined, “
Gov. Landry Signs Bill Blocking Anti-Gun Banks from State Business.” Boom.
Governor Jeff Landry (R), was elected late last year in a stunning conservative victory cementing full Republican control of Lousiana’s government for the first time in a decade. While serving as Louisiana’s attorney general, Landry battled the state’s democrat governor and the Biden Administration over vaccine and mask mandates, which launched him to a conclusive win for Governor last Fall.
In late October, the New York Times reported Landry’s victory, for variety deploying the adjective “hard-line” instead of “far right:”
In 2021, the state’s previous governor Bel Edwards (D) vetoed two gun rights bills passed by Lousiana’s Republican legislature. Had it not been vetoed, the first bill would have authorized permitless carry, removing the requirement for citizens to obtain concealed carry licenses to keep firearms with them.
In March this year, Governor Landry signed a re-submitted permitless carry bill into law.
That was great news. But the second, possibly more interesting bill bans all state agencies from patronizing banks that discriminate against gun manufacturers. Gun shop owners and manufacturers currently face a tightly limited landscape of banking options, since many big banks refuse to give them accounts or process their credit card transactions.
It sounds like something Florida Governor Ron DeSantis would do, and I hope the Sunshine State follows Louisiana’s lead. If enough red states refuse to do business with anti-Second Amendment banks, things might change.
Hilariously, the solution is perfectly consistent with blue state monkey business. Blue states have been boycotting businesses for years whenever they feel like it.
For example:
More progress! Great job, Louisiana.
A quick traveling roundup: Competing peace deals amount to more war; Supreme Court continues properly pruning Executive authority; and Louisiana's terrific new governor leads on 2nd Amendment.
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