Three Car Rental Firms Have Dropped Their Support For The NRA

Three car rental outfits that had offered discounts to NRA members are cancelling the incentives as of next month, following the recent tragic school shooting in Florida

Matt Kimberley

Updated: 23 Feb 2018

Three Car Rental Firms Have Dropped Their Support For The NRA

Enterprise Holdings has cancelled a car rental discount scheme aimed at National Rifle Association (NRA) members in the US.

The Enterprise, National and Alamo car rental companies will stop offering incentives to NRA members as of 26 March. None of them would initially make a statement as to why, but the very obvious link is the latest school shooting in Florida, in which 17 people were killed by an ex-pupil-turned-terrorist carrying an easily-sourced semi-automatic rifle.

At the time of writing, car rental providers Avis and Budget still offer an NRA discount. Car buying service TrueCar has a special NRA members’ website that claims to offer extra discounts, while almost 20 other companies offer similar incentives.

First National Bank earlier this week cancelled a credit card promotion aimed at NRA members after “customer feedback.” It previously offered ‘the official credit card of the NRA.’ More commercial NRA supporters may decide to cut ties in the coming days and months.

UPDATE: Hertz car rental has also now cancelled its NRA discount scheme.

Comments

Thanks mr skeltal

No school - kids from the chance of meatballs movie (The first one)

Fun fact: During the civil rights movement, Mississippi added an amendment to its consitution that would allow the state government to abolish the public school system. This was in case politicians got desperate to stop integration.

So we can blame an association based around safe use of guns for an adult not listening to what the NRA says about safe gun use and shooing people in a school? This is like blaming Car Throttle for someone going bout and hitting someone else with their car.

There is one key difference you are overlooking here. Guns were invented for one single reason: to kill people.

My little home town of Aransas Pass, TX has had 3 treats this week, just an hour ago all of the highschoolers were sent home due to another threat

Enjoy a cool sip of champagne sitting in your Rolls Royce Cullnian Viewing Suite whilst watching the angry mob react to this.

that doesn’t make any sense tho

All this commenting is reminding me of the time when the UK tried to ban the Lotus Carlton because it was used in robberies….
Not sure what to do about that.

The difference is that the Carlton wasn’t designed as a tool for bank robberies. It just happened to be good for that

Frankly everything had a purpose, whether for practical or fun reasons, but never evil. But everything is often used for evil too.
Regulations should be mainly focusing on the people who are using them and the methods of obtaining them.

Good. An organisation that lobbies for civilian access to weapons of war that are designed purely to make killing people as easy as possible shouldn’t be rewarded with cheap car rental