From today's Washington Times: How's this for a Catch 22??

One major national firearms retailer, for example, has been under fire for more than two years from the Obama administrations Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. It seems the company wont hire convicted felons, which the commission claims amounts to illegal racial discrimination. The federal government these days argues that policies that have what government lawyers call a disparate impact on racial minorities amount to impermissible discrimination - even when the policies themselves were not put in place for discriminatory reasons. Thus, the government argues that a higher percentage of minorities within the felony population than in the population at large means that any policy that discriminates against felons as a class is discriminatory because its impact falls disparately on minorities.

Company officials pointed out to commission investigators threatening to charge the company with discrimination that they couldnt hire felons even if they wanted to, because federal law prohibits federal firearms licensees from hiring felons. The investigators response was, according to a company official I talked to: Thats your problem, not ours. These are investigators and regulators who can read between the lines, know their bosses are anti-gun and will do anything they can to please them.


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I have subsequently learned that the company is Bass Pro Shops.

Last edited by italiansxs; 03/28/13 04:30 PM.
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