Simple question for ya.

If I refused to do business with a company solely on the basis of that companies stance on guns, I'd have a lot less stuff and a lot more money.

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Tennjed, you are correct sir.
They are not out to take our rights, just limit them or at least what we spend our money on. If your fine with that good on ya, it bugs me a bit that a company decides what I can spend my money on.

Not trying to argue with you fellas just trying to grasp the concept why we would support a co. That is not support us is all. or only willing to support us where they see fit (IE: keep a good public image).

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Most companies decide what we can spend our money on to an extent. My Walmart sells AR15 but not handguns. Are they anti gun? The difference is we are passionate about the things paypal has limited. Other companies limit things you are not passionate about, so you do not notice. But I would be willing to bet your do business with companies that put limits on things every day. Paypal isn't passionate one way or the other. Paypal has attorneys telling them to do this. How do you get companies to change policy? $$$.

The fact of the matter is there are 3 types of people (and companies) when it comes to guns.

1) pro gun (passionate)
2) anti gun (passionate)
3) middle road/undicided. (not passionate)

I love pro gun. I hate anti gun.

I want to educated the non passionate middle ground people. They have 2 choices on whose side they can be on if they decide to jump off the fence. Do you want them on our side or the other? Sometimes we think everyone out there is as passionate about firearms as us, so if they are not 100% pro gun they must be 100% anti gun. The fact of the matter is there are lots of people that are indifferent and not passionate. Lets educate them. Paypal is one of the largest corporations in the country. The fact that they allow some gun transactions is actually a huge plus for us, it helps all gun owners.

I go out of my way to support pro gun.
I will avoid anti gun.
I will treat middle road, with indifference. I will not go out of my way to use paypay, but I will not avoid them. THEY ARE NOT ANTI GUN.

Dont have one. Wont ever do that again.

I would rather commit ritualistic suicide with a dull steak knife, than to offer that company profits totaling a single dime that I've used for plinking practice over the last 3 days.

Never, ever ever EVER again.

Their business practices were devious, corrupt, and foul LONG before guns got even factored into the mix as far as I'm concerned.

Massive corporate bankruptcy ? Stockholder revolt ? Angry liquidation ? Regulatory shredding ? Die in a fire ?

All the same to me. Coming up on the 4th annicersary of being pay-pal free, and I've loved every single VISAtastic day of it.

Had it, killed it. Don't buy on fleabay any more.

I have paypal because I sell a lot of stuff on ebay.

Have used them for eBay & for stuff I sold on GB (but not directly linked, just sent buyers invoices). The fees got to me and also a dispute over the return of a set of binocs to Optics Planet that is now in its 3rd month, even though OP has confirmed receipt of returned merchandise…

Will be closing my acct once the dispute is settled.

HOME DEPOT I noticed a coupled of days ago accepts paypal as form of payment.

i know they are anti-gun. that is part of why i use it. to buy gun related things. as long as it is processed as misc goods, or something similar, they run it through no problem. but i know i have just stabbed them in the sides, though my "shank" is only a pin. anything i can do to stick it to them makes me feel good.

I also have a PayPal account for online sales. I also responded to this post on my Chinese made IPad sitting in my clothes made in India watching my Japenese TV with my German made car parked in the garage filled with gas made from oil pumped from Saudi Arabia all purchased from places that ban carrying and carry products made from countries with gross gun control. All paid for by U.S. dollars earned that I paid taxes to a goverment to that's taking away our 2nd Amendment rights working with people where over half of them supported the current adminstration. People will have their views, opinions and beliefs and are entitled to them. If I avoided everyone that disagreed with me, I be homeless cold and starving.

I used to have a paypal account. Got rid of it years ago because of their anti-gun policies.

About eight years ago, they allowed an identity thief to open an account in my name and use it to siphon money from one of my credit cards. They never bothered to verify the identity of the person opening the account.

I will never do business with them.

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I also have a PayPal account for online sales. I also responded to this post on my Chinese made IPad sitting in my clothes made in India watching my Japenese TV with my German made car parked in the garage filled with gas made from oil pumped from Saudi Arabia all purchased from places that ban carrying and carry products made from countries with gross gun control. All paid for by U.S. dollars earned that I paid taxes to a goverment to that's taking away our 2nd Amendment rights working with people where over half of them supported the current adminstration. People will have their views, opinions and beliefs and are entitled to them. If I avoided everyone that disagreed with me, I be homeless cold and starving.

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PPT, thanks for the best post in this thread.

I also have a PayPal account for online sales. I also responded to this post on my Chinese made IPad sitting in my clothes made in India watching my Japenese TV with my German made car parked in the garage filled with gas made from oil pumped from Saudi Arabia all purchased from places that ban carrying and carry products made from countries with gross gun control. All paid for by U.S. dollars earned that I paid taxes to a goverment to that's taking away our 2nd Amendment rights working with people where over half of them supported the current adminstration. People will have their views, opinions and beliefs and are entitled to them. If I avoided everyone that disagreed with me, I be homeless cold and starving.

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Winner....

Another poll... (yawn). Polls are one of my pet peeves. Americans seem to thrive on opinion polls as entertainment. Thus the media makes money on them, regardless of whether they have any statistical significance or societal merit.

I don't have one but I use my wife's when I buy something off ebay......chris3

I have eBay, and therefore pretty much have to have PayPal if I want to do anything. I have discovered from reading this poll however that maybe I shouldn't have PayPal, because they are anti-gun. I'm all for boycotting those who hate freedom, but I am not aware of what PayPal has done to let us know they hate freedom. Can someone enlighten me?

Not trying to hijack your thread OP, but I assume this is basically the purpose of the poll anyhow, so hopefully I am not.

I use Paypal because I like and use eBay.

If I have to boycott everything and everybody who doesn't like or support gun rights I'm going to live a very boring, sequestered life. I'm not going to fight every battle, only some.

I also have a PayPal account for online sales. I also responded to this post on my Chinese made IPad sitting in my clothes made in India watching my Japenese TV with my German made car parked in the garage filled with gas made from oil pumped from Saudi Arabia all purchased from places that ban carrying and carry products made from countries with gross gun control. All paid for by U.S. dollars earned that I paid taxes to a goverment to that's taking away our 2nd Amendment rights working with people where over half of them supported the current adminstration. People will have their views, opinions and beliefs and are entitled to them. If I avoided everyone that disagreed with me, I be homeless cold and starving.

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^^ This ^^

People who cry Pay Pal is anti-gun don't know the whole story. As has been pointed out, they allow you to use it to buy most gun-related items. They "ban" actual gun purchases, hi-cap mags and ammo. Everything else is ok with them. A few years back they did have a hard line on guns and gun-related stuff but they relaxed their rules in the last year or so.

So, I'll call hippocrite to anyone who slams anyone for using Pay Pal when they get in their imported car, buy their Arab country gas on their way to BOA to pay for their mortgage with BOA or any number of anti-gun lenders and run their Intuit software at work. Face it guys, companies have their stances for and against many things, including guns.

Choosing to use some anti-gun businesses and not others, because it's hard to remortgage or switch banks, smacks of the definition of hippocrite especially when you consider Pay Pal is not anti-gun. Do they tell you what you can or can't buy? Does every Walmart carry every gun sold? Does your supermarket sell ammo? That's a poor excuse to slam someone who uses Pay Pal, or any other business, because it's works for them.

I have one because it is the only way to pay a custom bullet mould maker whom I really like. He live is Slovenia or something like that.