Two can play that game, jerkface!

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Last month the governor of New York tried to stick it to the National Rifle Association by ordering his officials to pressure financial institutions like banks and insurers to stop conducting business with the five million-member-strong gun rights organization. Little did he know at the time that he had just screwed up royally.

“I am directing the Department of Financial Services to urge insurers and bankers statewide to determine whether any relationship they may have with the NRA or similar organizations sends the wrong message to their clients and their communities,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a press release published April 19.

Roughly a week after the governor launched his veritable war against the NRA, one of the country’s “premier ammunition suppliers to law enforcement” struck back by completely cutting off Cuomo’s administration.

“Hornady will not knowingly allow our ammunition to be sold to the Government of the State of NY or any NY State agencies. Their actions are a blatant and disgusting abuse of office and we won’t be associated with a government that acts like that. They should be ashamed,” ammo manufacturer Hornady announced on Facebook:

While Hornady tried to humbly downplay the potential impact of this effective ban against Gov. Cuomo’s administration, the implications could in fact be huge, given that “[m]ultiple state agencies need guns and ammunition,” as noted by Tom Knighton at Bearing Arms:

“What happens when, because of his comments and his push to destroy the gun industry, they can’t get the resources they need? What then? Oh, someone will sell to them…at exorbitant prices that keep the retaliatory aspect intact. The law of supply and demand will come into play, after all. If you’re the only one who will sell to them, and they absolutely need it, you can name your own price.”

For such bans to truly be successful, however, more manufacturers need to follow suit. Just imagine what would happen if every manufacturer that provides ammunition, accessories or even guns to Cuomo’s administration cut him off.

Writing for Ammoland, David Codrea argued that gun owners and national/state gun rights groups should also do their part by making those manufacturers that stand up to the gun-grabbing left their preferred brands:

“It’s the best way to demonstrate that such leadership in appreciated form those who show it, and expected from those who do not. … This is something national and state gun groups could take the lead on, at least the ones not afraid to rock the boat. And it’s past time gun manufacturers stopped acting like neutral parties, willing to reap the benefits of RKBA activism as long as they don’t have to take a stand.”

In other words, if you believe in the Second Amendment, don’t just talk the talk — walk the walk!