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Offline Dand

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Emanuel To Banks: Stop Supporting Gun Makers
« on: January 25, 2013, 07:54:37 PM »
CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is putting more pressure on gun makers to get behind his push for an assault weapons ban and criminal background checks for gun purchasers.
This time, he wants to go after their bottom line.
Emanuel is pushing two major financial institutions to stop their financial backing of gun makers, unless those companies support “commonsense reforms, including requiring criminal background checks on all gun sales.”
The mayor is urging that banks to stop lines of credit, financing for acquisitions and expansions and financial advising........


............Last week, Emanuel ordered a portfolio analysis from the five pension and retirement funds for Chicago employees to determine if fund managers hold financial interests in companies that manufacture or sell assault weapons.This week, the Chicago Municipal Employees Annuity and Benefit Fund (MEABF) board voted to divest more than $1 million from three companies that manufacture assault weapons – Freedom Group, Smith and Wesson and Sturm Ruger..........
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/01/25/emanuel-to-banks-stop-supporting-gun-makers/
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Re: Emanuel To Banks: Stop Supporting Gun Makers
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2013, 10:42:09 PM »
And if that's not bad enough, hussein is trying to bring back liability on the gun makers for crimes commited with a firearm.
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Re: Emanuel To Banks: Stop Supporting Gun Makers
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2013, 01:58:13 AM »
That's a very interesting bit of stupidity for bankers.  Have you ever noticed that the most successful finacial institutions do not listen to democraptic mayors when it comes to investing money.  Bankers have a long history of watching cities and states go into bankruptsy or sink to c or even d financial ratings for stupid investing ideas and this is no different. 
 
One great thing about a capitalist economy is that when one 'institution' fails, others pick up the slack.  So who the hell cares about banks in rahm-land or hobama-city, let them fail.  Most bankers in stripped suits know full well that the gun industry is a investment winner and they will put their money where it will grow the best.  I seriously doubt that any banker stupid enough to pull just one million from 3 firms it previously invested in will get hurt from that divestiture, but it sure might get pretty damn lean from other investors pulling their money out. 
 
And let's face it, the gun industry is not going to go down in flames just because some a-ho chicago schmuck wants to short change them.

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Re: Emanuel To Banks: Stop Supporting Gun Makers
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2013, 02:27:24 AM »
Mayor Nutter in Philadelphia is also trying to have the Philadelphia  City Pension fund divest itself of gun maker investments

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Re: Emanuel To Banks: Stop Supporting Gun Makers
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2013, 12:11:00 PM »
With gun sales what they are lately I'm guessing stocks in gun related businesses are a bright spot in any portfolio.

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Re: Emanuel To Banks: Stop Supporting Gun Makers
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2013, 04:41:48 AM »
With gun sales what they are lately I'm guessing stocks in gun related businesses are a bright spot in any portfolio.
Temporarily. Once the panic subsides sales will probably decrease. There is a limited market for guns like anything else. Once the demand has been fulfilled sales will subside. Just like the  toilet paper and other panics.

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Re: Emanuel To Banks: Stop Supporting Gun Makers
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2013, 05:44:51 AM »
If I had money invested in the gun market I think I would worry more about the government getting involved with regulations and lawsuits that adversely effect the industry rather than a decrease in demand and sales.

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Re: Emanuel To Banks: Stop Supporting Gun Makers
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2013, 10:51:20 AM »
Two of the banks Emanuel is urging to deny funding to gun makers, is TD Bank, which is giving a 60 million credit line to S&W, and Bank of America provides a 25 million line to Ruger. I bet Chicago's current and retired public employee's wish the city had invested more in both companies.
I guess Emanuel he is trying to emulate NY and Calif. who both have mammoth unfunded pension liabilities. Chicago has unfunded liabilities of 25 billion. Being the socialist/Marxist that Emanuel is, he would never invest the cities money in a gun manufacturing company. Chicago's pension funds are predicted to run dry by the end of the decade. NY state public pension fund, and Calif's teachers pension funds have been divested of gun holdings. The fund for other Calif. public employees is expected to follow suit with the teachers pension funds.
I guess as long as the liberals are feeling good about themselves, nothing else matters. Which is the usual point of liberalism.     
Since Obama was sworn in four years ago, there have been 65 million requests for backgound checks of gun purchases. In the last four years S&W stock has gone up 258% As for Ruger, their stock has gone up 691% in the last four years.
As long as we elect people with a character of Obama and Rahm Emanuel, Gun companies are going to do very well, and I don't see that changing.         
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