[Gen.Blather]

The only guys I’ve known who made their own AR15 style rifles paid cash for the parts. For credit card companies to deny payment would require a mechanism that notifies the company what the part is or perhaps who it’s being bought from. I just don’t see an easy, effective way to mechanize that. Since the parts are not illegal is this not restraint of trade?

Of course, private companies, so long as they aren’t bakers or wedding photographers, can deal with whomever they want. But if someone had the money and the time to sue, they’d probably win...depending on the venue.

[hanamizu]

“Of course, private companies, so long as they aren’t bakers or wedding photographers, can deal with whomever they want.”

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The distinction you mentioned is, of course, perfectly logical. Being gay and requiring others to celebrate your gayness has always been a sacred part of our Constitution. It is ‘who we are’.

Owning a gun, besides being antisocial, is a completely outdated idea that has no part of 21st-century American life. The so-called ‘right to keep and bear arms’ is a product of 18th century slave owners! It is not ‘who we are’.
/s