Obama’s DOJ Shutting Down Popular Texas Gun Store

[PocketProtector]

http://www.mrconservative.com/2014/0...xas-gun-store/

The owner of the Texas-based gun store that has been making headlines recently with its creative marquee bashing Obama and the Democrats says that he’s come under political attack and is going to be forced to shut down.
Now Tactical firearms is looking for help from the public to fight the unfair treatment they’re getting from their bank, which is more than likely linked to the Justice Department’s “Operation Choke Point.” The initiative from the DOJ that applies pressure to banks and credit card processors to drop the accounts of “high risk” businesses, even though they’re engaging in perfectly legal activities.
The Katy, Texas gun store posted a lengthy plea on its website that claims their bank is calling in a loan on July 1 that will more than likely put them out of business. This comes after gun-related retailers across the nation have been reporting that their merchant accounts and bank accounts were unexpectedly closed due to their businesses being “high risk.”
In its explanation, Tactical Firearms claims that the bank told them they’re calling in the loan because the “government does not support loans to the gun, alcohol, or hotel industries,” which falls in line with what’s been happening under Operation Choke Point. However oddly enough, Eric Holder recently announced that the DOJ would be working with banking regulators to ease the restrictions on banks when dealing with marijuana businesses in states where it’s been legalized.
Just as with the IRS, Obama has weaponized yet another government agency and is using it to “choke” out the gun industry since he knows gun control isn’t happening in the near future. This brazen attack on the Second Amendment is not only tyranny defined, but it’s illegal and shows the utter contempt that Obama and his cohorts have for our laws and our Constitution.
Here’s the company’s entire plea, read it and let us know what you think:
DOJ Forcing Banks To Drop Gun Store Clients
We Need Your Help
Tactical Firearms has prided itself in being honest with our customers from our first day in business. That’s why we are alerting you today to a situation that we believe to be unjust and punitive against Tactical Firearms, and this is a situation that threatens to put us out of business on July 1, 2014.
Tactical Firearms has just been given notice that our loan with Icon bank has been called in. Not because of no payment, as we have never been late or missed a payment, but because the board of directors has chosen to not renew the loan. Deciding to call a loan which has a perfect payment record and is profitable to the bank is almost unheard of in the banking industry. This is why we believe Tactical Firearms is being specifically targeted with punitive actions in an effort to put us out of business.
But there’s even more to this situation that you need to know:
Back in 2012 Tactical Firearms purchased the land next to our existing facility. Icon Bank suggested an interim loan at 7% interest and then to refinance all of our loans together into one loan at a lower rate of 3.579%. At that time we had a fixed, long term loan for the building and the construction of the range. By purchasing the land, it cross collateralized the loans and put us in a situation (unknown to us at the time) that could threaten our entire business.
When it became time to refinance the loans, one of our owners (30%), Steven Coe Wilson, decided to back out. It is our belief based on what we have since learned that Steven wished to seize control of the company. We have substantial reason to believe he recruited some of our longest and hardest working employees to overbuy, to overspend, and to bury Tactical Firearms in debt to the point that we could not pay our bills. His grand plan appears to have been to swoop in and buy up the loan when the bank foreclosed on us for failure to pay. Perhaps to his disappointment, not only have we successfully paid our loan notes, we have also cut the unpaid bills by over half.
Sadly, because Steven did not sign the loan refinance that he had previously agreed to, the short term loan for the land has now matured. By default, our primary business loan is now in jeopardy.
Anti-Trust Practices?
Further complicating this situation, it has also been brought to our attention that a member of the board of directors of Icon Bank, Mark Evans, is the owner of a new gun store in the Houston area. Based on what we’ve learned about this competitor, we are convinced that this bank has the intensions of forcing Tactical Firearms out of business to remove a major competitor from the market of Mr. Mark Evans’ new business, Guns Over Texas. If true, we believe this would constitute unfair trade practices in the State of Texas, and we intend to pursue this matter with the office of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott.
Further connections support our accusations of anti-trade practices. For example, Mark Evans is the Managing Partner for Commercial Finance with the firm O’Connor, Craig, Gould & Evans – the firm that is being used by Icon Bank to proceed with the foreclosure. We strongly protest what appears to be a clear conflict of interest on the part of Mark Evans, who appears to be using his influence at the law firm (and therefore the bank) to engage in destructive, punitive actions with the ultimate aim of destroying his competition and thus ensuring the profitability of his own gun store.
Such behavior is monopolistic, anti-free-trade and un-American. Please contact the Attorney General and urge him to look into this matter.
Email: Attorney General Greg Abbott
greg.abbott@texasattorneygeneral.gov
At the same time, the bank’s excuse to us for calling in the loan is because the “government does not support loans to the gun, alcohol, or hotel industries” and the banks get heavily audited. This is an extension of the Obama administration’s backdoor efforts to bankrupt the firearms industry and all its supporting retailers and firing ranges. Since the government can’t take away our Second Amendment directly, they make it difficult for businesses to stay open by pressuring banks to close loans. This has already happened to other gun shops around the country. We are fighting to make sure it doesn’t happen to us.
All these factors seem to now be coalescing into a deliberate, well-planned attack on Tactical Firearms with the aim of permanently putting us out of business. The idea of our doors closing is incredibly painful to even imagine. We have over 30 employees, many of whom have children, who depend on our successful business operations to keep their own homes. In addition to our economic contributions to Katy and the greater Houston area, we also donate our time and profits to charities like Oilfield Helping Hands and Texas Sentinels.
Even more, there are 175 NFA items in our possession awaiting approval from the ATF. If we are unable to stay in business, every single one of these items would have to be resubmitted and the year long process would begin again.
We Need Your Help To Fight This Tyranny
Today, I am reaching out to YOU, our valued customers and supports, to ask for your help in keeping us out of the clutches of these punitive, monopolistic actions that now threaten Tactical Firearms.
FIRST, we need you to CONTACT THE BANK and urge them to reconsider their intended loan recall, pointing out that all banks need goodwill in the community in order to stay in business themselves:
John Green, President and Vice Chairman of the Board Icon Bank, jgreen@iconbanktx.com, 281-517-2430
www.iconbanktx.com
SECOND, we ask that you contact Mark Evans, who resides on the Board of Directors of Icon Bank, and let him know that the community is now heavily scrutinizing his actions and that we believe he is engaged in anti-trust violations of state and federal law. We will not hesitate to take this issue to the press if Evans pursues what we believe to be a punitive, anti-trade assault on our business rights:
Mark Evans, Board of Directors Icon Bank and Managing Partner of O’Connor, Craig, Gould & Evans, mark.evans@bgllp.com, 713-221-1300
THIRD, we ask that you help put out the word that all this could be readily solved if another INVESTOR or LENDER could be identified who would step up to the plate and support this successful business. We are a high-integrity, profitable business with a strong credit history and a perfect record of loan payment. Any lender would be thrilled to do business with a company like Tactical Firearms, and if a lender or investor wishes to help support our operations, it would also be a PROFITABLE venture for them to do so.
If you know of such a lender or investor who is interested in a profitable partnership with Tactical Firearms, please have them contact us at:
Email: helpus@tacticalfirearms.us
Finally, all of us here at Tactical Firearms thank you for your ongoing support, and please know that we are deeply dedicated to finding solutions that will defend us against this punitive and potentially unlawful attempts to destroy our business.
We believe in America. We believe in the Second Amendment. And we also believe that businesses operating in Texas should not be subjected to Gestapo-style tactics from the banking industry and its insiders. What we are fighting for here is the integrity of the entire business infrastructure which obviously depends on lenders to act on good faith when supporting expanding businesses.
What this system is trying to do to Tactical Firearms right now is a travesty of justice, and it’s just one more sign of the kind of punitive insanity we are seeing played out across this great nation by a network of anti-American individuals who are attempting to destroy the fabric of this nation one day at a time.
We refuse to let that happen, and we will fight this with every ounce of effort and breath within our reach. We thank you for any assistance and help you can offer us in this very trying time.
Share this with everyone you know and please keep all of us in your prayers.
Sincerely,
The Tactical Firearms Family
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[bogey1]

Sue. And sue BIGTIME.

[Pizza Bob]

While it is reprehensible that the feds are using this "back-door" method to shut down a gun store, I'm not going to shed too many tears over this specific gun store. People have short memories, but it was this guy that was lobbying for a ban on on-line ammunition sales. Karma's a bitch.

Adios,

Pizza Bob

[kimtyson]

While it is reprehensible that the feds are using this "back-door" method to shut down a gun store, I'm not going to shed too many tears over this specific gun store. People have short memories, but it was this guy that was lobbying for a ban on on-line ammunition sales. Karma's a bitch.

Adios,

Pizza Bob

Apparently you never learned that two wrongs don't make a right.

[Don Quixote]

Apparently you never learned that two wrongs don't make a right.

but 2 wrights did make an airplane

[thundrr1]

Three lefts make a right.............also

[ungawa]

While it is reprehensible that the feds are using this "back-door" method to shut down a gun store, I'm not going to shed too many tears over this specific gun store. People have short memories, but it was this guy that was lobbying for a ban on on-line ammunition sales. Karma's a bitch.

Adios,

Pizza Bob

Further, although Holder is performing this illegal political persecution generally speaking, in this particular case the shop seems to be blaming everybody in town for their problems even though it's pretty clear they put themselves in this situation.

[90volts]

Never heard of Icon bank. If they have a great credit rating and are profitable why don't they just refinance with another bank?

And why is there an appeal to the public? Does he really believe a bank will listen to Joe Schmoe? I would think a good lawyer would solve his problem. Or at least buy him some time to fix his problem.

[ungawa]

Never heard of Icon bank. If they have a great credit rating and are profitable why don't they just refinance with another bank?

Banks are getting out of the gun business. Holder told them gun businesses are risky investments and banks would be subjected extra high scrutiny for dealing with them. And if anything goes wrong they better show they did their homework to Holder's satisfaction.

Not just loans, they are even having merchant accounts closed. Any banking services.

[streaker69]

Banks are getting out of the gun business. Holder told them gun businesses are risky investments and banks would be subjected extra high scrutiny for dealing with them. And if anything goes wrong they better show they did their homework to Holder's satisfaction.

Not just loans, they are even having merchant accounts closed. Any banking services.

Any REAL banker would know that gun shops are a great investment, considering the the gains that the gun industry has had over the past few years. The only reason that they would be risky is because of federal meddling, of course.

Sad that the banks are so beholden to the whims of the feds.