PNC Bank - No Gun Transactions

[338 dude]

Prejudice No Charge

 

[Jdne5b]

Gun ownership isn't a protected class, so discrimination won't work.

 

[Leo Smith]

Bank of Communist America is one of the worst.

 

[ebb]

I just spent 30 minutes on the phone with PNC customer service. They told me that on a personal account there are no restrictions on what you buy, "it is your money spend it how you see fit." They did say that business accounts had some restrictions, but between 3 supervisors none could/or would tell me what they were.

 

[ebb]

Dave were your accounts business or personal? I don't really see the difference.

 

[284winner]

Very long story made somewhat shorter, my three PNC Bank checking accounts were compromised and eventually locked. I noticed the fraudulent withdrawal and called them in late May. Took them four days to do anything and once they did the accounts were locked - couldn't take any money out. Yesterday I was on the phone setting up a meeting with a nice, helpful young lady and during the discussion she asked me if I had made the five recent mobile deposits which I had. Meeting set for Thursday morning.

Another young lady called me this morning, Wednesday, to confirm the meeting and said it appeared that some of the transactions were for guns. Also that they do not permit gun transactions using their accounts and if that was my intent they would give me a cashiers check for the combined balances - implying that I could take my business elsewhere. These combined checking accounts totaled quite a bit of money. I would think they would very much want to keep me as a customer but apparently not.

How did they figure it out? One of my buyers on Gunbroker sent a cashiers check and in the Memo field he had written Tikka T3 NIB. That was one of the mobile deposits and is the only way I can think of.

Here, in the middle of conservative, rural, Trump country PA you can't use a PNC checking account to buy or sell a gun? Might tell her I want it in cash and bury it out back...

I'm sure there's some sort of fine print BS stating these rules if you did enough research you'd find but I think I would continue to do just exactly as you've been. It took this long to figure it out. Move your money if you get checked again by the company. I have to agree about the PNC Bank being in PA having issues with this kind of activity. The headquarters office is in PA and not NY or CA. Pretty sad really.

 

[Dave Berg]

Updated the original post to continue the drama.

Seems they don't want to do business with anyone who sells a firearm, especially an online sale. WTF?

 

[Rick in Oregon]

Here's another example of a non gun-friendly bank:

Bank of "America" notified a major bullet manufacturer we all know well here and told them they would no longer be their bank of choice because of what they manufactured. Some gunsmiths also were notified of this.

I closed all my accounts with these commies and will never do business with them again. This is just another example of how the libtards are trying to limit our second amendment rights.

 

[LarryDScott]

Liberals are control addicts. Its do as i say do.
Years ago BofA wouldnt issue me a Bass Pro card
because i have an FFL. LDS

 

[Dave Berg]

I just spent 30 minutes on the phone with PNC customer service. They told me that on a personal account there are no restrictions on what you buy, "it is your money spend it how you see fit." They did say that business accounts had some restrictions, but between 3 supervisors none could/or would tell me what they were.

This is what I was told regarding personal accounts. They don't seem to care if you use their account to buy a gun BUT if they figure out you sold one and deposited the check in that same account they'll close it. Also was told that a business account can't be firearm related so no selling there either.

I don't know if this is new or they just never "caught" me. Over the past five years I've taken the checks and money orders from gun sales into that bank, about $10K at a time, and openly discussed the source with some of the tellers who out of curiosity asked why people were sending me all that money. I think one of the problems is the banking industry pays so poorly that you rarely see the same teller twice anymore.

Dave were your accounts business or personal? I don't really see the difference.

They were personal accounts. Two were joint accounts with my wife and the third was an account I used only for PayPal.

 

[Evan]

Thanks for sharing and sorry for your trouble. Another business to add to the list, although I've never heard of PNC, so avoiding them won't take any special effort.

 

[Edd]

..........They were personal accounts. Two were joint accounts with my wife and the third was an account I used only for PayPal.

Hammer Bullets was accepting paypal payments for bullets. Paypal closed their account and kept the money that was in it.

 

[338 dude]

Hammer Bullets was accepting paypal payments for bullets. Paypal closed their account and kept the money that was in it.

That should be illegal that is theft the business may have been against their policies but that is not illegal so how do they have the right to keep his money that is BS

 

[linebaugh]

Just wait. Communism is in full bloom and will not stop where it's heading at this point in time. The funny thing is that as soon as powerful idiots run out of one segment of society to try to control they will turn to another and eventually on their own. All of this while NOT practicing what they preach. It's an eliteist mindset and they feel they must control us as we are not capable.
As stated above quit lending your voices and for gods sake your money to tyranny which you want to be freed from. We are effectively creating our own prison.

I do have facebook as I kind of need it to get my shooting sports itinerary, however next year I plan to shoot less competition and will dump it also. No paypal, no tv, no cable, no paper here. I nearly never shop at walmart and it gets less every year.