BELLEVUE, WA – Four more high-profile names have been added to the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms “Don’t Feed the Gun Prohibitionists” roster of businesses that support gun control by banning guns in their establishments.
CCRKBA launched the educational effort earlier this month to identify businesses, and CEOs, who close their premises or openly support gun control. “Don’t Feed the Gun Prohibitionists” initially listed almost 200 businesses and CEOs. The “Don’t Feed the Gun Prohibitionists” project has developed a dynamic list of businesses and CEOs who have been pushing for new legislation designed to impair the rights of law-abiding firearms owners. The list may be found at www.ccrkba.org/antigunbusinesses.
“Today, we’re adding Subway, Chipotle, Sonic and Panera Bread to the list,” CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb announced. “All of these businesses have banned guns in their establishments, which is an insult to the millions of law-abiding, legally-armed citizens who have harmed nobody and committed no crimes.”
CCRKBA’s list includes such recognizable names as Costco, Burger King, Delta Airlines, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Hallmark, the Hard Rock Café, Levi Strauss, Microsoft, Progressive Insurance, Sara Lee and Yelp. These companies and their corporate leadership that have made donations and/or advocated on behalf of gun control organizations, including sending an open group letter to the United States Senate urging additional restrictions and firearms bans.
“We’re not calling for a boycott of these companies,” Gottlieb explained, “but we are providing this information to American gun owners so they can make informed decisions about where to spend their hard-earned money without unknowingly supporting efforts to erode an important constitutional right.
“As we said earlier,” he added, “Businesses and the people who own them can support whatever kind of philosophy they want, and gun owning consumers can likewise not spend any money with those firms. Let the marketplace decide.
“Over 100 million American gun owners represent a sizeable consumer bloc,” Gottlieb said, “and they will vote with their wallets. Businesses that work against their interests should lose the benefit of their patronage.”
| 20/20 Vision | Cheryl Plank | CEO |
| A&M Records | Herb Alpert | CEO |
| AlleyCorp | Kevin Ryan | Founder and CEO |
| Alphabet, Inc. | Sundar Pichai | CEO |
| Amalgamated Bank | Keith Mestrich | President and CEO |
| Ambition | TravisTruett | Co-Founder and CEO |
| AMC Theatres | Adam Aron | CEO |
| AOL / Time Warner | Jason Kilar | CEO |
| Ariel Investments LLC | John W. Rogers, Jr. | CEO |
| Artsy | Mike Steib | CEO |
| Ascend.io | Sean Knapp | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Aspiration | Andrei Cherny | Co-Founder and CEO |
| AT&T | Randal Stephenson | CEO |
| Aura | Abdur Chowdhury | CEO |
| AutoZone | William Rhodes | CEO |
| Backpack | Fahim Aziz | Founder and CEO |
| Bad Robot | Fahim Aziz | Founder and CEO |
| Bain Capital | John Connaughton | Co-Managing Partner / Co-Chairman |
| Bank of America | Brian Moynihan | CEO |
| Beeswax | AriPaparo | CEO |
| Begin | Ryan Block | Co-Founder |
| Betaworks | John Borthwick | Founder and CEO |
| Beyond Meat | Ethan Brown | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Bloomberg LP | Peter Grauer | Chairman |
| Bonusly | Raphael Crawford-Marks | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Brat | Darren Lachtman | Co-Founder |
| Brookfield Property | Ric Clark | Chairman |
| Brud | Trevor McFedries | CEO |
| Bumble | Whitney Herd | CEO |
| Burger King | Daniel Schwartz | CEO |
| Cambly | Sameer Shariff | Co-Founder |
| Catch & Release | Analisa Goodin | Founder and CEO |
| Cerebras Systems | Andrew Feldman | Founder and CEO |
| Chipotle | Brian Niccol | CEO |
| Circle Medical | George Favvas | CEO |
| ClassPass | Fritz Lanman | CEO |
| Clearbit | Alex MacCaw | CEO |
| Clever | Tyler Bosmeny | CEO |
| Clockwise | Matt Martin | Co-Founder and CEO |
| CNN | Jeff Zucker | CEO |
| Color Genomics | Othman Laraki | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Comcast | Brian Roberts | CEO |
| Conde Nast | Roger Lynch | CEO |
| Costco | Craig Jelinek | CEO |
| Credit Karma | Ken Lin | Founder and CEO |
| Crunchbase | Jager McConnell | CEO |
| Curalate | Apu Gupta | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Curtsy | David Oates | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Dannon | Juan Dalto | CEO |
| Delta Airlines | Ed Bastian | CEO |
| DICK’S Sporting Goods | Edward Stack | CEO |
| Disney Company | Bob Chapek | CEO |
| DoorDash | Tony Xu | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Doxel, Inc. | Saurabh Ladha | CEO |
| Ebay | Jamie Iannone | CEO |
| Ecolab | Doug Baker | Chairman and CEO |
| Edelman | Richard Edelman | President and CEO |
| Elektra Labs | Andy Coravos | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Emerson Collective | Laurene Powell Jobs | President |
| Enterprise | Chrissy Taylor | CEO |
| Eventbrite | Julia Hartz | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Farmstead | Pradeep Elankumaran | Co-Founder & CEO |
| Full Picture | Desiree Gruber | CEO |
| Fundera | Jared Hecht | Founder and CEO |
| Gap Inc. | Art Peck | CEO |
| Gateway Computers | James Coleman | CEO |
| GE | Lawrence Culp | CEO |
| GEICO | Todd Combs | CEO |
| Goat Group | Eddy Lu | CEO |
| Golden | Jude Gomila | Founder and CEO |
| Graphic Packaging | Michael Doss | CEO |
| Group Nine Media | Ben Lerer | Co-Founder & CEO |
| Guru | Rick Nucci | Co-Founder & CEO |
| Hallmark Cards | Mike Perry | CEO |
| Hard Rock Cafe | James Allen | CEO |
| Havas Group | Yannick Bollore | CEO |
| HBO | Richard Plepler | CEO |
| Hint, Inc. | Kara Goldin | Founder and CEO |
| HipDot | Jeff Sellinger | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Hooked | Prerna Gupta | CEO |
| Horizon Media | Bill Koenigsberg | President CEO and Founder |
| Humbition | Cyrus Massoumi | Managing Partner |
| Impossible Foods | Patrick Brown | MD, PhD, Founder and CEO |
| Interpublic | Michael Roth | Chairman and CEO |
| Intuit | Sasan Goodzari | CEO |
| JOOR | Kristin Savilia | CEO |
| Jumbo Privacy | Pierre Valade | CEO |
| Kabbage Inc. | Rob Frohwein | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Kadena | William Martino | Founder and CEO |
| Kanga | Jake Perlman-Garr | CEO |
| Knowable | Warren Shaeffer | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Lattice | Jack Altman | CEO |
| Levi Strauss & Co. | Chip Bergh | President and CEO |
| Lucent Technologies | Patricia Russo | CEO |
| Lyft | Logan Green | Co-Founder and CEO |
| MetaProp.vc | Aaron Block | Co-Founder and Managing Director |
| MetLife | Michael Khalaf | CEO |
| Microsoft | Satya Nadella | CEO |
| Modern Fertility | Afton Vechery | Co-Founder and CEO |
| MongoDB Inc. | Dev Ittycheria | President and CEO |
| MSNBC | Phil Griffin | CEO |
| MTV | Chris McCarthey | CEO |
| Navient | John Remonid | CEO |
| NBC Universal | Jeff Shell | CEO |
| NCR Corp. | Michael Hayford | CEO |
| Neighborland | Dan Parham | Founder and CEO |
| NewsCred | Shafqat Islam | CEO |
| Nextdoor | Sarah Friar | CEO |
| NowThis | Athan Stephanopoulos | President |
| Nurx | Varsha Rao | CEO |
| Oaktree Capital | Howard Marks | Co-Chairman |
| Oberndorf Enterprises | William E. Oberndorf | Chairman |
| Oceans | Steven Rosenblatt | Co-Founder and General Partner |
| OfferUp | Nick Huzar | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Okta | Todd McKinnon | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Omnicom Group | John Wren | Chairman and CEO |
| Openpath | James Segil | Co-Founder and President |
| Panera Bread | Niren Chaudhary | CEO |
| Parabol | Jordan Husney | CEO |
| Paravision | Doug Aley | CEO |
| Paypal | David Schulman | CEO |
| Ben Silbermann | Co-Founder and CEO | |
| Plato Design | John Milinovich | CEO |
| Postmates | Bastian Lehmann | Co-Founder & CEO |
| Presto | Rajat Suri | CEO |
| Prima | Christopher Gavigan | Founder and CEO |
| Progressive Insurance | Tricia Griffith | CEO |
| Prologis | Hamid Moghadam | Chairman and CEO |
| Publicis Groupe | Arthur Sadoun | Chairman and CEO |
| Quartzy | Adam Regelmann | Founder and COO |
| Steve Huffman | CEO | |
| Ribbon Health | Nate Maslak | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Ro | Zachariah Reitano | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Roofstock | Gary Beasley | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Royal Caribbean Cruises | Richard Fain | CEO |
| RXR Realty | Scott Rechler | Chairman and CEO |
| Sara Lee | John Bryan | CEO |
| SelfMade | Brian Schechter | CEO |
| Shoptiques Inc. | Olga Vidisheva | Founder and CEO |
| Showtime Cable Network | David Nevins | CEO |
| Shutterstock Inc. | Jon Oringer | Founder and CEO |
| Sidewalk Labs | Dan Doctoroff | CEO |
| Sift | Jason Tan | CEO |
| Skillshare | Matt Cooper | CEO |
| SkySafe | Grant Jordan | CEO |
| Small Door | Josh Guttman | Co-Founder and CEO |
| SmartAsset | Michael Carvin | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Snapdocs, Inc. | Aaron King | Founder and CEO |
| Solve.io | Neil Capel | CEO |
| Sonic | J. Clifford Hudson | CEO |
| Southwestern Bell | Mark Keiffer | CEO |
| Splash | Ben Hindman | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Square and Twitter | Jack Dorsey | CEO |
| Squarespace | Anthony Casalena | Founder and CEO |
| Standard Bots | Evan Beard | Founder and CEO |
| Subway | Trevor Haynes | CEO |
| Sundia Corporation | Bradford Oberwager | CEO |
| Sunlight Health | Ross Feinstein | CEO |
| Superplastic | Paul Budnitz | CEO |
| SurveyMonkey | Zander Lurie | CEO |
| SV Angel | Ron Conway | Founder |
| Symantec | Vincent Pilette | CEO |
| ThirdLove | Heidi Zak | Co-Founder and Co-CEO |
| Thisopenspace inc. | Ashar Nejati | CEO |
| Thrive Capital | Joshua Kushner | Founder and Managing Partner |
| Thrive Global | Arianna Huffington | Founder and CEO |
| ThunderCore Inc. | Chris Wang | CEO |
| Tillable | Corbett Kull | CEO |
| Tinder | Sean Rad | CEO |
| TOMS | Blake Mycoskie | Founder and CEO |
| Twilio | Jeff Lawson | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Uber | Dara Khosrowshahi | CEO |
| Uniform Teeth | Meghan Jewitt | CEO |
| Viosera Therapeutics | Nicholas Goldner | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Virtual Kitchen | Ken Chong | CEO |
| Voxer | Irv Remedios | CEO |
| Voyage | Oliver Cameron | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Watsi | Chase Adam | Co-Founder and CEO |
| WayUp | Liz Wessel | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Whalar | Neil Waller | CEO |
| Wizeline | Bismarck Lepe | CEO |
| WPP | Mark Read | CEO |
| X.ai, inc. | Dennis Mortensen | Founder and CEO |
| Y Combinator | Geoff Ralston | President |
| Yelp | Jeremy Stoppelman | Co-Founder and CEO |
| Yum Brands | Greg Creed | CEO |
| Zola | Shan-Lyn Ma | Co-Founder and CEO |
About CCRKBA
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org) is one of the nation’s premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.
I would like to know about citibank for sure as I have a card there and it was not on the list
i had printed out this list, taped the pages end to end and put it hanging from the bulletin board at my local rod and gun club/range. Over a year later it was still hanging there.
I thought Auto Zone was shown to have been put on the list erroneously. I THINK that I recall reading the CEO is pro 2A and he was surprised that AZ was on this list. Somebody please correct me if I’m wrong, or correct the list if I’m right.
I appreciate the list, however can you give me a list of the businesses that I can and should support. Just like trying to buy things made in America, I can easily find things that aren’t made here. It is much harder to find the American made alternatives to the cheap imports. I will gladly support businesses that support the 2nd amendment if you will call them out.
It’s bad enough when these businesses (many times corporations) take a position against a right which has been guaranteed – in this instance the right to bear arms, as protected by the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution. When a corporation like Levi’s goes even further by incentivizing anti-gun “activism” by paying their employees their regular wages for anti-gun volunteer work, then something has to be done in response (retaliation).
Any of these establishments that say no guns, if it’s concealed, how are they going to know ??
No metal detector and no pat down = places I am allowed to carry. Just like the bad guys. Always has been true, always will be.
The Wal-mart near me still sells long guns and ammo and (I think) a sign on the door requesting no open carry. But this is Texas and I think most businesses go with the local opinion on guns. A Wal-mart in another part of the country might see things entirely different.
Walmart is not on the list so why bring it up?
I don’t really care about those businesses saying “no” to firearms on premises(what they don’t know won’t hurt you). I DO care about those who are actively supporting gun control with endorsements & financial contributions. CCRKBA needs to distinguish between the two.
I’m with you, I carry wherever I want, if ever needed I’m good, if not ,no harm no foul, gun free zones are just plain Lunacy
There are too many on the list to even remember. In my opinion if we picked out a chosen few and boycotted them with media attention, I think the effect would be greater. Maybe get out the message to the others “you could be next”. Just my 2 cents.
I don’t see any signs prohibiting in the Costco near me and that’s what’s required in Illinois. I still carry there. Maybe I need to look harder as the signs can be small. There are so many places where you cannot carry that you either have to conceal carefully (and be technically illegal) or not bother
Costco is a ‘membership’ organization and your signature on the membership agreement indicates that you agree to not carry in the warehouse.
I’ve been stopped and ‘reminded ‘, multiple times.
How are they gonna know you’re carrying? They won’t! Don’t be stupid and tell them.
Worst that can happen is they’ll ask you to leave the store.
If you refuse, then they could call the cops and charge you with trespassing.
He missed Citibank too.
Why is Walmart not on this list? They passed antigun several years ago, and have now gone full on communist. For instance hiring Bernie Sanders as the keynote speaker at last year’s stock holder’s meeting, while he was campaigning.
I was thinking the exact same thing when I got all the way to W and Wal-Mart is not on the list. Wal-Mart is indeed going full communist. The CEO wrote a letter to president Trump calling for another so called “assault weapons ban”. Please dont shop at Wal-Mart if you believe in the US Constitution and want to keep your 2nd ammendment rights!
I hate Walmart. Only go there if I absolutely must.
I always spend cash at these places ( if I need the product) with my gun owner stamp on the money. makes eyes big but they have never refused my bucks and it tells them a different story
What is a “gun owner stamp” on money?
Keep in mind also these companies support the rioters who have been burning down our big cities recently. They call it “social justice.”
My definition of “social justice” is public executions for traitors & criminals.
You missed CVS. They banned concealed carry in their stores last year.
If you own stock in any of these companies, vote against the CEO when they have elections for the Board of Directors.
Seriously? With companies like Google (i.e. Alphabet Inc. is Google’s parent company) and Microsoft on your list… Good luck guys!
Boycotting is only useful when its impact on the target organizations’ financial performance is both materially significant and has a clear causal relationship. Otherwise, it can actually be more self damaging to those who deny themselves access to useful products and/or services rather than imposing any clear & measurable consequences on your boycott target.
Don’t be stupid… Select your boycott targets strategically if you want to be taken seriously by anyone.
Your a Google employee I’m guessing.
Ricky B.,
You obviously didn’t bother to actually read the article, which raises suspicions that you are a troll.
From the article:
“We’re not calling for a boycott of these companies,” Gottlieb explained, “but we are providing this information to American gun owners so they can make informed decisions about where to spend their hard-earned money without unknowingly supporting efforts to erode an important constitutional right.
“As we said earlier,” he added, “Businesses and the people who own them can support whatever kind of philosophy they want, and gun owning consumers can likewise not spend any money with those firms. Let the marketplace decide.”
Me skipping down to the list of target organizations after reading the first several paragraphs of this article leads you to believe I am a troll? While we will have to agree to disagree about that… I do admit that I had not read that specific part of the article. Thanks for pointing it out, my friend!
So attempting to label what is clearly a boycott effort as specifically NOT a “boycott” effort is what is called arguing semantics. This doesn’t make my point any less valid… If anything it demonstrates this organization’s own awareness of the validity of my specific point (i.e. the futility of any effort that is based on this kind of ideological purity). I’m guessing these guys don’t like the term “boycott” because it is a political weapon that is more often associated with liberals… You know, like those faggots who tried to boycott Chick-fil-A but only ended up increasing that company’s revenue when their loyal customers countered the gay boycott by increasing their own consumption of Chick-fil-A’s delicious products.
Speaking of delicious products… You’ll have to excuse me, I’m fixing to go enjoy one of the delicious desserts at my local Sonic drive-in so I gotta go now. Afterward, I think I’ll go enjoy some trigger time at my local gun range. You have a good day sir!
Ricky, I don’t think you were trolling at first, but the last comment might be the finest example of trolling I’ve ever seen. Bravo sir!
Agreed. Boycotts are ineffective unless scaled to the organization, and that usually means massive in scale.
I’ve found that direct mail addressed to the CEO and/or president gets results, or at least a response of record.