Author Topic: Is Operation Choke Point making a comeback in GOP-controlled Washington?  (Read 367 times)

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In 2013, Barack Obama and Erik Holder launched Operation Choke Point (OCP), an initiative that gave the government power to use banks and financial institutions to track down companies suspected of illegal activities.
Like just about everything else Obama did, OCP violated our Constitutional rights—in this case the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable search and seizure. However, the community organizer also used OCP as a back-door method to dismantle the Second Amendment by using banks to shut down “risky” gun dealers by denying them bank services. In 2015, a gun store in Hawkins, WI, was driven out of business when their bank closed their account simply because they sold guns and ammo......

https://www.redstate.com/diary/stridentconservative/2018/03/23/operation-choke-point-making-comeback-gop-controlled-washington/