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The two airlines join several other companies in retracting benefits for the NRA and its members, including rental vehicle companies Alamo, Avis, Budget, Enterprise and Hertz, First National Bank of Omaha and insurance providers Chubb and MetLife.
Hogg and peers at Stoneman Douglas have gained national attention as advocates for gun-law reforms since the February 14 attack that left 17 students and teachers dead.
United Airlines: United said in a tweet Saturday it is "is notifying the NRA that we will no longer offer a discounted rate to their annual meeting and we are asking that the NRA remove our information from their website".
The group has faced public anger before - after the massacre of schoolchildren at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012, for example.
PayPal, Square, Stripe and Apple Pay ended relationships with the NRA "years ago", notes the New York Times's Andrew Ross Sorkin in a recent column suggesting some big banks may be considering ways to restrict gun sales in a way Congress can't or won't.
But outrage over the Parkland shooting - sustained in part by politically active teenagers who survived the massacre - has shown no signs of dying out.
The Memphis, Tennessee, delivery company said it differs with the NRA and believes weapons like the AR-15 assault-style rifle that was used to kill 17 people in Florida shouldn't be owned by civilians.
Trump, who has backed gun rights and has been supported by the NRA, raised the idea of arming teachers during an emotional, hourlong discussion with people affected by school shootings.
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The Omaha bank appears to have been the first to respond.
Some of the backlash has centered on the National Rifle Association (NRA), an organization that promotes gun rights in the United States.
Earlier this week, First National Bank also announced that it would not renew an existing contract with the gun group, adding that the company will soon stop issuing NRA Visa Cards to members due to "customer feedback".
Enterprise followed suit a few hours later. Business Insider reported, though, that Wyndham ended its discount program for NRA members late previous year. They include Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National, Alamo, Hertz, and Avis Budget Group.
He also called for armed guards to be placed at every school, offered the organizations assistance in keeping schools safe, and dismissed the notion armed security makes Americans less safe as "completely ridiculous". The arrangement that offered discounts to NRA members was discontinued Thursday. Vehicle rental company Hertz and Symantec Corp., the software company that makes Norton Antivirus technology, did the same.
It has now spread across multiple industries and affected some of the world's largest corporations.
American companies are rising up against gun violence after a call to boycott the National Rifle Association (NRA) became the top trend on Twitter (#boycottNRA) as users of the global social media platform demanded that companies should sever their ties with the pro-gun group in the aftermath of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The hotel chains Best Western and Wyndham Hotels announced they are no longer affiliated with the NRA. As a result of the social media driven boycott, some companies have dropped their relationship with the NRA.
"For any of these named companies that are trying to recruit young people, if they feel part of their growing consumer base is being hurt, especially for college-aged people and below, then it's really unsafe for them to have this overt connection", Hunter-McDonnell said.
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