from WND:
‘I’m a professional fireman. I do everything the right way. It’s messed up’
Wells Fargo, one of the nation’s “wokest” major corporations, has taken its far-left social agenda up a notch by abruptly shutting down the bank accounts of a professional firefighter and his gun store, Wex Gunworks, three days before Christmas.
On Dec. 22, Wells Fargo sent a letter to Wex Gunworks, owned by Brandon Wexler and based in Delray Beach, Florida, with this message: “Wells Fargo performs ongoing reviews of its account relationships in connection with the Bank’s responsibilities to manage risks in its banking operations. We recently reviewed your account relationship and, as a result of this review, we will be closing your above-referenced accounts.”
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“The accounts are expected to close by February 9, 2023 or you may contact the Bank to initiate closure at an earlier date,” read the letter from the San Francisco-headquartered bank, as first reported Jan. 13 by The Reload, a pro-gun-rights publication. “The Bank’s decision to close your accounts is final.”
Jennifer Langan, a Wells Fargo spokesman, denied to Reload that the closure had anything to do with the gun “industry,” instead claiming it was “based on our analysis of the risk associated with this customer.” But Wexler and Second Amendment advocates are not buying it.
“I’ve been with them [Wells Fargo] for 25 years,” Wexler told the pro-gun-rights publication The Reload. “I’m a professional fireman. I do everything the right way. It’s messed up.”
He told Reload founder and journalist Stephen Gutowski that he had done nothing different with his business to warrant the Wells Fargo “review.”
“It feels like it’s a direct attack against gun dealers,” he said. “I’ve never seen anything like this.”
Mark Oliva, who represents the National Shooting Sports Foundation, or NSSF, told Reload, “Wells Fargo’s decision to abruptly cancel all business ties with Wex Gunworks is the most recent example of ‘woke’ banking discrimination against the firearm industry.”
