FDIC

What’s happened to Chick-fil-A and the NRA prove, there remains no protection except the ballot box to curtail the ability of Democrats to shut down arbitrarily whole classes of businesses they deem to be “politically incorrect.”

Gun retailers say the Obama administration is trying to put them out of business with regulations and investigations that bypass Congress and choke off their lines of credit, freeze their assets and prohibit online sales.

Obama’s Operation Choke Point isn’t about consumer fairness or protection; it is about creating more dependent clients for the government who, without access to credit, will no longer have the option of solving their own problems and meeting their financial needs in the private economy.