Firearms Merchant Files Class Action Lawsuit Against PayPal And Other Payment Processors

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Blair Gladwin, owner of the California based Gladwin Guns and Ammo, filed three class action lawsuits last week against online payment processors PayPal, Stripe, and Square for singling out him and other firearms businesses.

The payment companies required Gladwin and the other owners to reveal the nature of their dealings — after which the payment companies refused to work with them.

Gladwin claims this type of discrimination is a violation of California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act Sections 51, 52(a) and 52(c), a law that protects federally-licensed gun stores from such refusals of business transactions.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/23/f...-against-paypal-and-other-payment-processors/
 
This could get interesting. The federal government recognizes and licenses FFL's as legitimate businesses. Throw some of that discrimination business back at them.

It's kinda like the CCW argument.

The state says it's legal and acceptable for me to carry a concealed weapon and even issues me a permit to do so. Why won't you recognize it and discriminate against me a legal gun owner?
 
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Given that their intention was to drive him out of business, for any outcome to remotely resemble actual justice, punitive damages ought to be 100% of defendant's equity.

But since the whole scheme was orchestrated by Obama and Holder, they would have to be included as defendants.
 
We can only wish that this will go big and that those who's hands were tied by Ostupid and his like can now do right by the people.
 
I wonder if paypal et al make sellers of adult toys and pornography disclose the nature of their transactions?
What about the booming industry of marijuana seeds and paraphernalia?
How about when Omar paypals Mohammed a bunch of cash back home in Sudan?

Yeah. Didn't think so.
 
As a whole, society has been waging war on gun owners and the gun industry my entire life. I am glad to see, and support fully, the proactive roll the industry is taking. It has been long overdue. I am done being the polite white guy when it comes to letting things slide about the 2A.
 
^^ Exactly.
I always cringe when gun owners say we need to take the high road..we can't stoop to their levels..we're better than that.
Meanwhile, the anti's continue to win.
Hell no. You wanna play in the mud lets go. I'm gonna pack your mouth full of the stuff and make you wish you never saw me.
 
Only problem, gun owners (or businesses) are not a protected class ... we are just a thorn in their side.
 
Friday said:
I always cringe when gun owners say we need to take the high road..we can't stoop to their levels..we're better than that.
Meanwhile, the anti's continue to win..
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Yep. In general, the left goads the right into playing by standards the left doesn't hold themselves to. That's part of Sal Alinsky's rules for radicals.

It's a suckers game. An example would be how Jeb Bush was effusively apologetic about something he said that could have been seen as offensive to Hispanics, if one were a thin-skinned snowflake. Meanwhile the left has no qualms about calling black conservatives "uncle Tom" or female conservatives "cunts".

When someone hits you in the head with a bike lock, you don't turn the other cheek. You mete out a proportional response.
 
So are we going to let private companies decide who they do business with or not? Good opportunity for a new bank to step in. It's called capitalism. Paypal doesn't want my money? Fine.
 
Howland said:
Given that their intention was to drive him out of business, for any outcome to remotely resemble actual justice, punitive damages ought to be 100% of defendant's equity.

But since the whole scheme was orchestrated by Obama and Holder, they would have to be included as defendants.
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operation choke point illegally targeted banks and credit card processors that dealt with lawful firearms and ammunition.
There should have been immediate and multiple law suits the second this operation became public.

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bigfutz said:
So are we going to let private companies decide who they do business with or not? Good opportunity for a new bank to step in. It's called capitalism. Paypal doesn't want my money? Fine.
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We had a real hard time trying to find a credit card processor that would have anything to do with us as a forum just to process membership dues transactions. They're all scared of guns, apparently.
 
NCFubar said:
Only problem, gun owners (or businesses) are not a protected class ... we are just a thorn in their side.
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None of the "protected classes" have a constitutional amendment to fall back on... just sayin'.

fishgutzy said:
operation choke point illegally targeted banks and credit card processors that dealt with lawful firearms and ammunition.
There should have been immediate and multiple law suits the second this operation became public.
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I always wondered why that didn't happen... blatant, illegal, tyrannical, and downright mean!
 
fieldgrade said:
We had a real hard time trying to find a credit card processor that would have anything to do with us as a forum just to process membership dues transactions. They're all scared of guns, apparently.
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Thanks to Obama, Holder, and Lynch, plus the remaining Obama loyalists at DOJ.

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fieldgrade said:
We had a real hard time trying to find a credit card processor that would have anything to do with us as a forum just to process membership dues transactions. They're all scared of guns, apparently.
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One more reason why our CFF Founding Fathers rock.

It was difficult, but y'all did it for us anyway.
 
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