US companies split with NRA

NEW YORK (AP) — MetLife is joining other U.S. companies in severing ties to the National Rifle Association following a school massacre in Parkland, Florida.

The insurer terminated discounts that had been offered to NRA members on the NRA website . Enterprise Holdings has already ended its discount program and First National Bank of Omaha won’t renew its contract to issue an NRA-branded Visa credit card.

Members of the NRA have access to a host of discounts on its website , ranging from life insurance to wine clubs. Some of the companies that partnered with the NRA, as the backlash grows, have begun to distance themselves.

The software company Symantec Corp., which makes Norton Antivirus technology, said Friday that it had ended its NRA discount program.

One day earlier, the car rental company Enterprise Holdings, which also owns Alamo and National, said it was cutting off discounts for NRA members. First National Bank of Omaha, one of the nation’s largest privately held banks, announced that it would not renew a co-branded Visa credit-card with the NRA.

NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre said this week at the Conservative Political Action Conference, that those advocating for stricter gun control are exploiting the Florida shooting which killed 17 people, mostly high-school students.