It has long been FedGov’s practice to harass those in the firearms industry to discourage people from taking part. Clinton put two thirds of Federal Firearms Licensed dealers out of business via regulatory means.
Now we have Operation Choke Point, designed to harass those providing service to firearms dealers, treating them as criminals, in order to discourage them from providing their services to firearms related businesses.
Dept. of “Justice” is pressuring banks to shut down accounts without pressing charges against firearms merchants or even establishing that the merchants have broken the law. It’s simply another case of federal agencies being used for political purposes.
<http://www.infowars.com/justice-dept-launches-covert-sanctions-against-gun-owners/>
“Federal law enforcers are targeting merchant categories like payday lenders, ammunition and tobacco sales, and telemarketers – but not merely by pursuing those merchants directly,” Jason Oxman, the CEO of the Electronic Transactions Association, wrote on the subject. “Rather, Operation Choke Point is flooding payments companies that provide processing service to those industries with subpoenas, civil investigative demands, and other burdensome and costly legal demands.”
Oxman explained the superficial logic behind Operation Choke Point: by increasing the legal and compliance costs of serving “disfavored merchant categories,” financial institutions will “simply stop providing service to such merchants.”
IMHO, DOJ should be charged under RICO.