CCRKBA Adds White Sox to ‘Do Not Feed’ List of Anti-Gun Businesses

June 11, 2026
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The Chicago White Sox just joined an expanding roster of corporations that treat the Second Amendment like a liability rather than a constitutional right, prompting the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms to place the team on its “Do Not Feed” list. By funneling support to gun-control organizations, the Sox have signaled that ticket revenue from law-abiding Illinois gun owners is welcome, yet the values those fans hold are not. In a city already struggling with historic levels of violent crime, the optics of a major-league franchise aligning with policies that disarm the very citizens most at risk of becoming victims is more than tone-deaf—it’s a calculated business decision that prioritizes coastal donor optics over local realities. For the 2A community, the move underscores a widening cultural gap between professional sports franchises and their core regional audiences. When teams chase ESG scores and big-city political favor, they risk alienating millions of middle-American households whose discretionary spending keeps stadiums solvent. The CCRKBA list functions less as a blacklist and more as a consumer GPS, steering dollars away from entities that lobby to restrict the same tools law-abiding citizens rely on for self-defense. In practical terms, every hot dog, beer, and jersey not purchased at Guaranteed Rate Field becomes a quiet referendum on whether corporations can harvest revenue from gun owners while simultaneously funding efforts to curtail their rights. The larger implication is that the battle for the Second Amendment is shifting from legislative chambers to boardrooms and front offices. Each new entry on the “Do Not Feed” roster reminds pro-2A Americans that economic pressure remains one of the few levers still fully within their control. If enough fans treat their wallets like ballots, franchises may eventually recalculate whether virtue-signaling on gun control is worth the forfeited gate receipts and merchandise sales. Until then, the message from Illinois gun owners is straightforward: play ball on the field, but leave the politics of disarmament in the dugout.

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For the 2A community, the move underscores a widening cultural gap between professional sports franchises and their core regional audiences. When teams chase ESG scores and big-city political favor, they risk alienating millions of middle-American households whose discretionary spending keeps stadiums solvent. The CCRKBA list functions less as a blacklist and more as a consumer GPS, steering dollars away from entities that lobby to restrict the same tools law-abiding citizens rely on for self-defense. In practical terms, every hot dog, beer, and jersey not purchased at Guaranteed Rate Field becomes a quiet referendum on whether corporations can harvest revenue from gun owners while simultaneously funding efforts to curtail their rights.

The larger implication is that the battle for the Second Amendment is shifting from legislative chambers to boardrooms and front offices. Each new entry on the “Do Not Feed” roster reminds pro-2A Americans that economic pressure remains one of the few levers still fully within their control. If enough fans treat their wallets like ballots, franchises may eventually recalculate whether virtue-signaling on gun control is worth the forfeited gate receipts and merchandise sales. Until then, the message from Illinois gun owners is straightforward: play ball on the field, but leave the politics of disarmament in the dugout.

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