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BASC has written to Nikhil Rathi, chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), to provide evidence of sector-wide discrimination by many high-street banks against over a third of shooting-related businesses. Greg Smith MP, vice-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Fair Business Banking, said: “The Farage case of political debanking has only just blown the tip off the iceberg and it is now quite clear that there is widespread debanking going on for perfectly legal activities.” Payment service SumUp puts on its website hunt clubs, distributors of guns, firearms and airsoft guns, munitions sales, escort services and fortune-tellers in the same bracket of undesirable customers. Almost two thirds of BASC respondents reported difficulties in opening a bank account. Discriminatory Dr Conor O’Gorman, BASC’s head of policy and campaigns, said: “Discriminatory banking practices against businesses connected with shooting and other countryside pursuits is rife. We w