HTTP/2 200 date: Wed, 09 Mar 2022 18:34:00 GMT content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 vary: Accept-Encoding vary: Accept-Encoding set-cookie: __wpdm_client=c853727f32ae60b386d11db3fe9b3b40; secure; HttpOnly x-pingback: https://www.nssf.org/xmlrpc.php link: ; rel="https://api.w.org/" link: ; rel="alternate"; type="application/json" link: ; rel=shortlink x-powered-by: WP Engine x-cacheable: SHORT vary: Accept-Encoding,Cookie cache-control: max-age=600, must-revalidate x-cache: HIT: 4 x-cache-group: normal cf-cache-status: DYNAMIC expect-ct: max-age=604800, report-uri="https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct" server: cloudflare cf-ray: 6e95e6fac9d4cee0-IAD alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400, h3-29=":443"; ma=86400 NSSF Welcomes Rep. Bergman’s FIND Act Introduction in Congress • NSSF
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NEWTOWN, Conn. — NSSF®, the firearm industry trade association, welcomed the introduction of H.R. 6970[3], the Firearm Industry Nondiscrimination (FIND) Act, into Congress by U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman (R-Mich.). The bill has 55 original co-sponsors. This vital legislation will end the ability of corporate entities from profiting from taxpayer-funded federal contracts while discriminating against a Constitutionally-protected industry at the same time. “This legislation is critical to ensuring ‘woke’ corporations don’t use their financial might, funded by taxpayers, to deny essential services to the firearm industry,” said Lawrence G. Keane, NSSF Senior Vice President and General Counsel. “Corporations, in particular financial institutions, have been dictating public policies from boardrooms that throttle firearm businesses, which are Constitutionally-protected. This bill will no longer allow those corporations to benefit from taxpayer dollars while at the same time using those funds to deny Americans their Second Amendment rights. We thank Congressman Bergman for his leadership to ensure fairness in business, reasserting Congress’s role in ensuring the federal government isn’t picking winners and losers in the marketplace based on politics and protecting the ability of a lawful industry to compete for services without artificial and agenda-driven barriers.” Congressman Bergman’s FIND Act[4] doesn’t tell companies with whom they must do business. However, just as companies can chose who they wish to
