A list of companies cutting ties with the NRA
The New York Times
Eight days after a gunman with an AR-15 rifle killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Fla., a major bank cut ties with the National Rifle Association.
The bank, First National Bank of Omaha, was among the first businesses of at least a dozen to scrap special rates or discounts to the 5 million people the NRA says it has as members.
Of those companies that did cut ties, many said they did it in response to consumer complaints. Banking Kevin C. Langin, a spokesman for the First National Bank of Omaha, said in a statement Thursday that customer feedback had prompted a review of its contract with the NRA Travel On Saturday, Delta Air Lines said in a Twitter post that it was ending its contract with the association for discounted rates through the airline’s group travel program. United Airlines tweeted a similar message two hours later.
Allied Van Lines and North American Van Lines, which share a parent company, Sirva, each said it “no longer has an affiliate relationship with the NRA effective immediately,” and had asked to be removed from its website. Rental cars A spokesman for Avis Budget Group, which owns the car-rental companies Avis and Budget, said Friday a discount partnership with the NRA would end by March 26. Hertz said Friday that it was ending its rental car discount program for NRA members. On Thursday, the car rental companies Alamo, Enterprise and National, which share the parent company Enterprise Holdings, tweeted they would end their discount for NRA members beginning March26. Insurance MetLife said in a tweet on Friday it was ending a discount program for NRA members. Also on Friday, a spokesman for the insurance company Chubb told Reuters it would no longer partner with the NRA on an insurance program called the “NRA Carry Guard.”
Technology, Information and Security
TrueCar, an automobile pricing and information website, said Friday it was “ending its car buying service relationship” with the NRA at theend of this month.
The home security company SimpliSafe once offered two months of free monitoring for NRA members, but the company said in an email Saturday that it had “discontinued our existing relationship with the NRA.”