Central Louisiana News

U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy and Steve Daines, along with 19 Republican colleagues, have introduced the Firearm Industry Non-Discrimination (FIND) Act. This legislation aims to prevent the federal government from entering into contracts with entities that discriminate against firearm associations or businesses. The bill seeks to ensure that corporations cannot benefit from taxpayer-funded contracts while discriminating against businesses involved in firearms, ammunition, or related products.

“It’s clear leftist corporations are determined to push policies that undermine the Second Amendment,” said Dr. Cassidy. “Our government must protect the rights of law-abiding citizens, not fund efforts to restrict them.”

Senator Daines expressed similar concerns: “Democrats and woke corporations have proven over and over again that they want to carry out an unconstitutional, overreaching gun-grabbing agenda, and under no circumstances should our federal government use taxpayer dollars for these efforts. Doing business with anti-Second Amendment corporations erodes Americans’ trust and infringes on law-abiding citizens’ Constitutional rights. It must stop.”

The bill was introduced by Senators Cassidy and Daines alongside Cindy Hyde-Smith, Cynthia Lummis, Rick Scott, Tom Cotton, Roger Marshall, Jim Risch, Roger Wicker, Ted Budd, Mike Crapo, Tim Sheehy, Pete Ricketts, Kevin Cramer, Deb Fischer, James Lankford, Joni Ernst, Eric Schmitt, Lindsey Graham, and Katie Britt.

Lawrence G. Keane of the National Shooting Sports Foundation emphasized the importance of this legislation: “This legislation is critical to ensuring ‘woke’ corporations don’t use their financial might...to deny essential services to the firearm industry...We thank Senator Daines for his leadership...protecting the ability of a lawful industry to compete for services without artificial and agenda-driven barriers.”