Big and Small, N.R.A. Boycott Efforts Come Together in Gun Debate<br />Students who survived the Parkland shooting, who have become vocal proponents of gun control —<br />and some of whom now have hundreds of thousands of social media followers — began pressuring specific companies to follow the bank’s lead.<br />Judith Pearson’s home in rural Minnesota is stocked with guns for hunting and recreational use, but<br />that didn’t stop her from venting her frustration with the National Rifle Association after the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Fla.<br />Ms. Pearson, a retired school principal, was irked by the group’s repeated efforts to preserve civilian access<br />to semiautomatic rifles, like the AR-15 the gunman used to kill 17 students and school staff members.<br />Some companies have resisted calls to sever business relationships with the N. R.A.<br />On Monday, FedEx said that while it disagreed with the N. R.A.’s policies on semiautomatic<br />firearms, it would continue to offer discounts to the group’s members<br />On Thursday, the First National Bank of Omaha, which issued the credit card, publicly confirmed its break from the N. R.A.<br />“Then the floodgates were open,” said Judd Legum, who founded ThinkProgress.<br />But the calls for a boycott remained vague until last week, when lists of companies linked to the N. R.A.<br />began tearing across social media.
