More than a dozen companies have cut ties with the NRA — and pro-gun-rights activists are furious

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February 26, 2018 3:51 PM

Companies that have cut ties with the National Rifle Association after enduring boycott threats are now facing backlash from the right.

Now, people who support the NRA are threatening to boycott the companies that cut ties with the gun-rights organization.
Brands including Hertz, United, Delta, and Enterprise Rent-a-Car are being flooded with boycott threats from the right.

Companies that have cut ties with the National Rifle Association after anti-NRA boycott threats are facing backlash from the right.

Delta, United Airlines, Hertz, and MetLife are among more than a dozen companies that have cut ties with the NRA in the past week after the school massacre this month in Parkland, Florida. The decisions followed a social-media boycott campaign targeting companies that offer special deals to NRA members who, as part of their membership, receive discounts on things like car rentals and prescription drugs.

Gun-control activists have celebrated the companies that have cut ties — but not everyone is happy.

"[S]ome corporations have decided to punish NRA membership in a shameful display of political and civic cowardice," the NRA said in a statement this weekend. "In time, these brands will be replaced by others who recognize that patriotism and determined commitment to Constitutional freedoms are characteristics of a marketplace they very much want to serve."

Many supporters of the NRA vowed to boycott companies that cut ties with the organization, flooding the brands' social-media pages with complaints.

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"Since you decided to join politics and drop the NRA, I will no longer do business with you," one person wrote on Delta's Facebook page Monday. "I just booked a vacation and I made sure not to use your airline. You might want to stick with flying planes and stay out of politics."

I didn#emo#t join the @NRA to g... @ Dr. Kelli Ward I spent 42 years defending ... @ David

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