Georgia Credit Union Bars Customers From Purchasing Guns With Their Own Money

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Georgia United Credit Union recently updated their User Agreement — you know, that wall of text that your financial institution flashes at you from time to time and which few people bother to read. The catch: If you rely on Georgia United Credit Union for your purchasing tool, like, say, a debit card, you may no longer use that to purchase firearms, ammunition, firearms parts, or accessories, along with a host of other items.

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Georgia Credit Union Bars Customers From Purchasing Guns With Their Own Money

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Through the leadership of CEO Debbie Smith, Georgia United is committed to cultivating a people-first culture dedicated to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Georgia United is a corporate partner of the African-American Credit Union Coalition and stands with the AACUC against racism, in addition to being a co-leader of Global Women’s Leadership Network’s Georgia Sister Society, which strives to tackle the industry’s gender gap.

Our mission is to serve with a purpose to enrich the lives of our members, team members and surrounding communities. Our purpose-driven commitment to service is the reason Georgia United stands out from other financial institutions and has been recognized by industry leaders and community partners.
 
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Through the leadership of CEO Debbie Smith, Georgia United is committed to cultivating a people-first culture dedicated to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Georgia United is a corporate partner of the African-American Credit Union Coalition and stands with the AACUC against racism, in addition to being a co-leader of Global Women’s Leadership Network’s Georgia Sister Society, which strives to tackle the industry’s gender gap.

Our mission is to serve with a purpose to enrich the lives of our members, team members and surrounding communities. Our purpose-driven commitment to service is the reason Georgia United stands out from other financial institutions and has been recognized by industry leaders and community partners.
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Aka “We hate straight, white, conservative men and actively try to destroy the nuclear family model.”
 
Ok, their club, their rules. Anybody who disagrees can take their deposits elsewhere.

They are (claim to be) a group with a vision and a mission statement that states that; they set up a CU to further their mission. Whether I agree or not, my options are a) participate or b) not participate.

How about instead of bashing them, some Americans set up a similar business, a CU with a vision and a mission statement that seeks to further the goal of supporting the 2A (among other traditional American values, perhaps)?

Rather than continuing the trend of grousing or destroying, how about competing?

Yes, I know the playing field isn't level. But at some point one has to at least attempt to build up rather than only tear down.
 
Windini said:
How about instead of bashing them, some Americans set up a similar business, a CU with a vision and a mission statement that seeks to further the goal of supporting the 2A (among other traditional American values, perhaps)?
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That’s not a half bad idea.
 
NCLivingBrit said:
The scream and bitch about men being trash after they go all out Arbys on the trash tier men.
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“I am a strong independent woman!”

*Check engine light, ABS light, low fuel light, tires bald and showing belt, dent in rear bumper, equal sign sticker in rear glass, etc.”
 
"For everyone in the thread… go check with your bank(s). See if this is common. I’ll go check mine."



I think this is a good idea and the best way to check is to use your debit card to make a firearms type purchase.

If you get denied, you know the bank's policy. If not, well, just be happy with your new purchase.

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While credit unions are generally a better deal for consumers, having better interest rates on loans and CDs, they are a Bastion of low IQ liberals. I spent 10 years at one and they are morons.

The CEO may make a lot of money, the executive officers may make a lot of money - and to be reasonably intelligent - but anybody below that level is generally knuckle dragging stupid.
 
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Windini said:
How about instead of bashing them, some Americans set up a similar business, a CU with a vision and a mission statement that seeks to further the goal of supporting the 2A (among other traditional American values, perhaps)?
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There was talk at one time about the investment group the PSA owner is a part of getting something like that setup. This was around the time they purchased H&R, AAC, and the other companies. Unfortunately, haven’t heard anything on that in a long time.
 
Totally, well, somewhat off topic. I’ve had an account at NC state employees credit union for 6-7 years. Never used it. Walked into the new-ish Fuquay Varina branch, aka Taj Mahal.
Holy crap what a beautiful bank. Nicest bank I’ve ever been in.

Had a very agreeable visit to see about setting up a few accounts and reducing my exposure at a larger bank.
 
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Windini said:
Ok, their club, their rules. Anybody who disagrees can take their deposits elsewhere.

They are (claim to be) a group with a vision and a mission statement that states that; they set up a CU to further their mission. Whether I agree or not, my options are a) participate or b) not participate.

How about instead of bashing them, some Americans set up a similar business, a CU with a vision and a mission statement that seeks to further the goal of supporting the 2A (among other traditional American values, perhaps)?

Rather than continuing the trend of grousing or destroying, how about competing?

Yes, I know the playing field isn't level. But at some point one has to at least attempt to build up rather than only tear down.
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Because the left will attempt to destroy any competition to their tyranny. "If you don't like it go make your own, it's a free market." Then try to destroy anyone that steps out of line.

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They are building up some online infrastructure for payments and advertisements. It's just coming online and gaining traction kind of slow.



Me. said:
Can someone translate this for me?
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A lot of women that whine the loudest about how bad men are will spread their legs for any half baked scum bag with more red flags than an NFL coach. They think all men are scum bags but insist on only giving the scumbags the time of day. Briefly dated a girl in high school that dumped me because I was "too nice" and started dating a guy that I went to school with. Who pretty quickly started beating on her from what I heard. Guess she wanted a boyfriend more like her step dad.
 
chiefjason said:
Because the left will attempt to destroy any competition to their tyranny. "If you don't like it go make your own, it's a free market." Then try to destroy anyone that steps out of line.

Parlor
Gab
Rumble
Twitter
Truth

They are building up some online infrastructure for payments and advertisements. It's just coming online and gaining traction kind of slow.





A lot of women that whine the loudest about how bad men are will spread their legs for any half baked scum bag with more red flags than an NFL coach. They think all men are scum bags but insist on only giving the scumbags the time of day. Briefly dated a girl in high school that dumped me because I was "too nice" and started dating a guy that I went to school with. Who pretty quickly started beating on her from what I heard. Guess she wanted a boyfriend more like her step dad.
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I think you came out on the good side of that one.
 
fieldgrade said:
Had a very agreeable visit to see about setting up a few accounts and reducing my exposure at a larger bank.
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When we bought our home, the closing from NCSECU had the fewest amount of papers to sign that the atty had ever seen. Come to think of it, we signed more for the HELOC to renovate it.
 
fieldgrade said:
Totally, well, somewhat off topic. I’ve had an account at NC state employees credit union for 6-7 years. Never used it. Walked into the new-ish Fuquay Varina branch, aka Taj Mahal.
Holy crap what a beautiful bank. Nicest bank I’ve ever been in.

Had a very agreeable visit to see about setting up a few accounts and reducing my exposure at a larger bank.
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The SECU is the best financial institution we've ever worked with.

When Truliant was new to the area, I remember them offering custom credit union services. As in, with a certain deposit minimum (I think it was $10,000) and certain membership numbers. (I think it was 10.) They would be the "engine" behind your own credit union. I'm sure there was a lot of paperwork involved, creating a legal entity, etc. I don't know anything about their current reputation and it seem to me I heard something negative lately, but it opens the idea that a semi-indepenent financial institution could be created.
 
chiefjason said:
Because the left will attempt to destroy any competition to their tyranny. "If you don't like it go make your own, it's a free market." Then try to destroy anyone that steps out of line.

Parlor
Gab
Rumble
Twitter
Truth

They are building up some online infrastructure for payments and advertisements. It's just coming online and gaining traction kind of slow.

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Yep. I'm well aware of that. So just give up & go with the leftist takeover of the entire banking industry is your solution?

Nope. It's not simple -"the playing field isn't level," as I said - but it's not going back to 'normal' on its own.

What the GA CU is doing, with guv support at many levels, open and clandestine, appears to be a group self-financing to strengthen its position and move toward its goals. I support this idea wholeheartedly; in fact, I firmly believe its the only "noble" ideology behind banking. It's the next step in economic evolution from 16th century shares-in-a-trading-venture cooperation.

The guv support, however, shows it isn't a grass roots effort; while their credit union method is theoretically legitimate, the guv "support" they get (help for them, hurdles and disruption for any similar structure with an opposing ideology) reveals the state's support of an agenda, which is reprehensible.

But alternative methods, even when frowned upon by The Powerful Ones Who Decide What is Legitimate, spring up all the time. Bartering a tree stand for a camp stove, or paying cash for vegetables at a farmer's market are a couple small-scale examples.
 
Windini said:
Ok, their club, their rules. Anybody who disagrees can take their deposits elsewhere.
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No, this is NOT "OK".

This is the problem inherent with an all-digital, cashless economy that banking institutions AND THE GOVERNMENT ultimately want to transition to.

Ask what the Canadian truck drivers who protested Trudeau think about this.

And this Georgia bank is NOT the first financial institution to pull this kind of crap, but by a long shot.

PayPal does this...and fines the f#@& out of people over this as they see fit, electronically taking your money from whatever account(s) you may have tied to them.

And remember a short 2 years ago when laws tried MANDATING credit card companies create and apply a new merchant code for firearms and firearms related purchases SPECIFICALLY to allow tracking such purchases?

Well, law or not, credit card companies can STILL do this, with exactly the same results. Unless they are SPECIFICALLY outlawed by strong legislation, you can bet this WILL happen.

So...NO, this is not "OK".

And yes, you CAN take your business elsewhere.

But soon, there will BE no place else to go to.
 
Windini said:
Yep. I'm well aware of that. So just give up & go with the leftist takeover of the entire banking industry is your solution?

Nope. It's not simple -"the playing field isn't level," as I said - but it's not going back to 'normal' on its own.

What the GA CU is doing, with guv support at many levels, open and clandestine, appears to be a group self-financing to strengthen its position and move toward its goals. I support this idea wholeheartedly; in fact, I firmly believe its the only "noble" ideology behind banking. It's the next step in economic evolution from 16th century shares-in-a-trading-venture cooperation.

The guv support, however, shows it isn't a grass roots effort; while their credit union method is theoretically legitimate, the guv "support" they get (help for them, hurdles and disruption for any similar structure with an opposing ideology) reveals the state's support of an agenda, which is reprehensible.

But alternative methods, even when frowned upon by The Powerful Ones Who Decide What is Legitimate, spring up all the time. Bartering a tree stand for a camp stove, or paying cash for vegetables at a farmer's market are a couple small-scale examples.
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Trying to take the head off the first snake that pops it up to warn the others isn't giving up. And while I wouldn't say it's working just yet. Companies are clearly on notice that those moves are far riskier than they use to be. And the push back seems to be getting more severe, and longer lasting. More people are paying attention.

If someone could get a start up off the ground to fight this by taking market share even better.
 
chiefjason said:
Trying to take the head off the first snake that pops it up to warn the others isn't giving up. And while I wouldn't say it's working just yet. Companies are clearly on notice that those moves are far riskier than they use to be. And the push back seems to be getting more severe, and longer lasting. More people are paying attention.

If someone could get a start up off the ground to fight this by taking market share even better.
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Something I haven't heard being spewed from the political "right" in the last few years is the idea that competition and free market enterprise will persevere and right, wrongs like what GA CU is doing. Perhaps because that doesn't seem to happen, at least to the degree that it needs to. Granted there have been a few platforms pop up, like Bitchute and Substack but there just doesn't seem to be much economic might within "conservativism".
 
chiefjason said:
Trying to take the head off the first snake that pops it up to warn the others isn't giving up. And while I wouldn't say it's working just yet. Companies are clearly on notice that those moves are far riskier than they use to be. And the push back seems to be getting more severe, and longer lasting. More people are paying attention.

If someone could get a start up off the ground to fight this by taking market share even better.
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Why are you arguing when you agree with me?! :) "Push back," "Paying attention," "Start up," "Market share" is exactly what I'm talking about.
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Something I haven't heard being spewed from the political "right" in the last few years is the idea that competition and free market enterprise will persevere and right, wrongs like what GA CU is doing. Perhaps because that doesn't seem to happen, at least to the degree that it needs to. Granted there have been a few platforms pop up, like Bitchute and Substack but there just doesn't seem to be much economic might within "conservativism".
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What if there were an economic equivalent of Abbot's stepping up to take care of a particular segment of riverside?

RetiredUSNChief said:
No, this is NOT "OK".

This is the problem inherent with an all-digital, cashless economy that banking institutions AND THE GOVERNMENT ultimately want to transition to.

Ask what the Canadian truck drivers who protested Trudeau think about this.

And this Georgia bank is NOT the first financial institution to pull this kind of crap, but by a long shot.

PayPal does this...and fines the f#@& out of people over this as they see fit, electronically taking your money from whatever account(s) you may have tied to them.

And remember a short 2 years ago when laws tried MANDATING credit card companies create and apply a new merchant code for firearms and firearms related purchases SPECIFICALLY to allow tracking such purchases?

Well, law or not, credit card companies can STILL do this, with exactly the same results. Unless they are SPECIFICALLY outlawed by strong legislation, you can bet this WILL happen.

So...NO, this is not "OK".

And yes, you CAN take your business elsewhere.

But soon, there will BE no place else to go to.
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The particular GA CU is not the entity thwarting conservatives using digital banking. Nowhere did I say digital banking, megabanking, or only-one-way/place-to-access-banking-transactions is good.

In fact, I clearly suggested the opposite.
 
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noway2 said:
Not following. Would you please elaborate?
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Gov Abbot of TX has recently taken control of the TX border to halt illegal immigration*, disregarding Federal "Youcan'tdothatism!" from DHS & BP.

Be nice to see some bankers doing something similar.

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Yea... That's 100% click bait.

The ToS is applying to P2P money transfers, not debit card purchases.
That type of ToS seems pretty boiler plate for services like Venmo, CashApp, or PayPal. Doesn't change the fact that it's there, but it's not abnormal.
If your CU/bank has a P2P service, or partners with one, you're likely bound by the same ToS. USAA and NFCU partner with Zelle, for example, which has a similar policy.

So fear not, if you have an account with them, you're still able to buy guns, tobbaco, or a box of dildos using your debit card.

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Also, Zelle's ToS:


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flip said:
Yea... That's 100% click bait.

The ToS is applying to P2P money transfers, not debit card purchases.
That type of ToS seems pretty boiler plate for services like Venmo, CashApp, or PayPal. Doesn't change the fact that it's there, but it's not abnormal.
If your CU/bank has a P2P service, or partners with one, you're likely bound by the same ToS. USAA and NFCU partner with Zelle, for example, which has a similar policy.
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That's what I thought as well. Zelle, Venmo, Paypal, etc., all have those terms of service. A lot of sellers on other sites say "discrete Zelle, Venmo, or Paypal F&F" ok for payments. Why patronize services that have those types of restrictions?
 
Take a look at Sezzle's ToS and it appears that Palmetto State is violating their policy as well. Even though they offer that service on their site.

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Take a look at Sezzle's ToS and it appears that Palmetto State is violating their policy as well. Even though they offer that service on their site.

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I used it at Academy as well, in the last couple weeks, to buy .410 shells. 😎
 
flip said:
Lol. Your reply in the 9mm deal of the day thread made me look at Sezzle's ToS.
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I think it’s PayPal that I’ve used on Academy’s site before, but it disappears as an option when you put ammo in your cart.
 
For the most part, I don't think most of these policies are specifically directed to be anti-2A.
I'm guessing it's just legal CYA - and providing a "get of jail free card" if anything that was purchased/sold using their service was involved in a crime.
 
Kspainhour said:
But why is the "guns and ammo" thrown in with mostly illegal things?


I think its the constant bombardment of the "guns are illegal" narrative.
So when its all bundled together, it must all be illegal in the readers mind.
psyops at its best.


Ok, ill get off my soapbox now.
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But they're not. Tobacco products are completely legal in all 50 states, but subject to federal & state regulation. A box of dildos is also completely legal - but I'm not really sure if phallic shaped plastic is subject to any state or federal regulation, I'm sure they are - and probably can't be sold on Sunday.
 
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