US Senators put a bank on notice for targeting Americans making legal gun and ammo purchases. US Senator Tim Scott, a member of the Senate Banking Committee, joined about 2 dozen of his GOP colleagues in sending a letter to Amalgamated Bank President and Chief Executive Officer Priscilla Sims Brown.
The letter criticizes the bank’s manipulation of an international rules organization to force U.S. financial services firms to categorize gun purchases. The letter calls it an indefensible attempt to target law-abiding Americans exercising their right to purchase firearms and to enact far-left political goals.
In the letter, the senators wrote in part the organization is weaponizing the financial system and "You should consider this notice to retain all communications involving your role in ISO’s categorization scheme, and you should anticipate testifying before Congress in the near future.”
Additional signers include Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, along with Senators Thom Tillis of North Carolina and South Carolina's Lindsey Graham.