First National Bank of Omaha (FNBO) has announced that they won’t be renewing the co-branded credit card deal with the NRA. “Customer feedback has caused us to review our relationship with the NRA,” said First National Bank of Omaha spokesman Kevin Langin. For those unfamiliar this card earns 5% cash back on gas and sporting goods purchases. It isn’t clear at this stage if they will continue to issue the Ducks Unlimited credit card which has the same rewards structure. It also isn’t clear when the the current co branded deal with the NRA ends and what will happen to existing cardholders.
Small update: Looks like the NRA card isn’t accepting new applications currently, but the Ducks Unlimited card is.
I know readers on both sides of the gun divide will have extremely strong views on this. I plead you to remain respectful of each other in the comments.
Hat tip to reader Raphael S & Gadget
Got a letter today that the NRA card will be converted to a PenFed Platinum Rewards Visa on April 24. https://www.penfed.org/conversion contains FAQ and opt-out option, though not specified what FNBO will do to accounts that opt out.
DoC, any idea if they’ll keep the rewards structure on this card and/or allow a product change to the Ducks Unlimited card? I have a 50 mile commute (each way), so 5% at gas stations is important to me. I would rather not take another hard pull for a Ducks Unlimited card.
In the past they have turned them into flat 2% cards I think. I wouldn’t worry too much for now, unsure how long their NRA contract still has left so existing cardholders should be fine for now.
So an online lynchmob harrassed them into cancelling the card, leaving only the worse non-bonus alternative and setting the standard that all you need to do to ruin a deal is put on masks of anonymity and email burning crosses en masse to whichever bank you take issue with.
This is how hobbies die, and it’s a shame bloggers don’t have the courage to speak up in defense of them against the invading hordes of lefty brownshirts.
Because let’s be honest, you don’t see hordes of churchgoers going around harassing Discover because one of their card designs is based on the Jersey DEVILS.
It’s only left wing keyboard warriors who make it their life’s mission to impose their beliefs on the entire world as de facto modern day templars.
Honestly, I miss when the churnosphere was actually about churning, and it hadn’t yet been infested by the cancerous liberal inquisition.
Back then we could actually apply for the cards we wanted without having to worry about churning descending into a bitter political battleground.
But I guess that’s just not possible anymore, not as long as the cultural stalinists are trying to ruin this hobby like they’ve ruined so many others.
God forbid people are just allowed to enjoy things without a bunch of pompous blowhards screeching about how they’re not enjoying them the right way.
Let’s not beat around the bush here. When talking about your “hobby” of gun ownership, people “not enjoying them the right way” means committing murder. That is the discussion going on in this country right now.
Please don’t pretend it is something else. Nobody is saying: “Look at the guy enjoying his hobby. He looks like he’s having fun. I hate fun! Let’s stop that guy from having fun!”
Children are being murdered in their classrooms. That’s the discussion we as a nation are having right now.
Will:
Not sure why you open comments on a topic like this. No one stays on topic but you get 100 posts, in varying ways that state “My side is right! Your side is stupid! If you agree with me you’re kind, intelligent and noble. If you disagree with me, you’re unloved, ugly and eat Tide Pods!”
My off-topic comment aside, I sent an SM to FNB asking about what date they plan to discontinue the relationship with the NRA and what will happen to existing cardholders once they do.
I’ll report back when I get an answer. Put me down on the side of “open up the TravElite card.” 😀
The possibility of a DP among 100 posts?!?! Dilly, dilly!!
Got a response back from FNB:
1. Date unknown for cancelling NRA deal. Just said when contract comes up for renewal, they won’t renew it but no one seems to know when that is.
2. No option to convert to TravElite card or any other card. All cards will be replaced with generic FNB card.
3. My side is good! Your side is bad!
4. Dilly dilly.
Thanks for the info, curm.
Honestly I thought about closing the comments on this post. I didn’t for two reasons:
1. I didn’t want people to then post comments on other random posts regarding this/complaining about comments being closed.
2. I was hoping some regular readers that respect the site (like yourself) would actually post useful information rather than arguing with each other.
Poor guns. Gun gun gun gun gun GUN gun gun gun? GUN gun gun gun GUN! Jesus gun, freedom. Gun gun gun, gunnnnnssssss!
Gun.
DP: I’m just another liberal excited to see the NRA lose support. Hopefully some positive change can come out of defunding the NRA.
Anyone who is mad at FNBO over this (for either discontinuing the card or for offering it in the first place) should extract as many bonuses from FNBO as possible to punish them accordingly. Like I do to Wells Fargo.
Smart decision from the bank’s pov. I just got my card couple days and will be gladly flashing it every time I’m in a gas station and sports store.
Good that i got the DU few months back and been hitting heavily. Wish it continues and go the NRA card route. Fingers crossed.
so much for being civil and keeping politics out of it. Sorry, DoC, on behalf of what is supposed to be a civil community.
The NRA is a political organization. It is difficult to keep politics out of it.