Recurring allegations continue to surface in cyberspace that the Bank of America has adopted a policy prohibiting it from doing business with firearms manufacturers and retailers.
               
BoA, one of the world's largest financial institutions with 57 million individual banking accounts and four million small business customers, has been the focus of enmity on many pro-Second Amendment websites since April last year.
               
In April 2012, McMillan Manufacturing in Phoenix, Ariz., claimed BoA told the firearms-maker, a 12-year customer of the bank, that the "company's business would no longer be welcomed ... because (it) manufactures firearms."

In a Feb. 25 interview with Anthony Licata, Editorial Director of Field & Stream and Outdoor Life, Vice President Joe Biden outlined the Obama Administration's case for universal background checks for all firearms transactions.

In justifying this, Biden repeats a dubious claim he's questioned himself — that an estimated 40 percent of all gun sales in the United States are conducted without a background check. There's one more important point concerning the proposed universal background checks system to ponder from Biden's comments: Biden dismisses with little comment growing fears, that a universal background check system could provide the administrative infrastructure for a federal gun registry.

Macro-media consolidation has distressed civil libertarians for decades. Second Amendment advocates now share this concern with the recent announcement by Comcast Corp. that it will no longer accept gun-related commercials on its extensive media networks, which include holdings in television, cable, Internet, radio, and voice services in two-thirds of the nation's markets.
               
Philadelphia-based Comcast is one of the biggest media corporations in the world with annual revenues exceeding $55 billion. In early February, it announced it had acquired NBC Universal from GE in a deal valued at $16.7 billion.

According to Adam Winkler, a UCLA professor of constitutional law and author of "Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America," the next significant gun rights cases that will come before the Supreme Court will likely address the right to carry firearms in public, an issue that the high court has yet to rule on.
               
"They've said you can have a gun, and you can have a gun in your home," Winkler told Christina Wilkie in her Feb. 25 Huffington post article. "So the logical next step is to see where else you can have one. The next great battle in the war over the Second Amendment is going to be who gets to argue concealed carry rights."