I wanted to give kudos to Arvest Bank for supporting firearms businesses.
My wife and I were in the Bartlesville location on Friday opening a commercial checking account for our LLC. The banker was making copies of the paperwork we brought in which included the FFL 07 license for the business. I saw the bank lady paying extra attention to the FFL and started to worry because I've heard that some financial institutions will not service firearms related businesses. When the lady came back from the copier she said she had to make a phone call before proceeding because she wasn't sure if there was "anything else" we needed to open an account because of the firearms aspect. She called someone up the chain from her on speaker phone and told him about the FFL license. She asked "is that ok? Do we need anything else?" The man on the other end said "Of course that's ok! Why would THAT matter?"
We opened the account without incident and I left happy knowing that I didn't have to find a new bank for ALL my accounts.
My wife and I were in the Bartlesville location on Friday opening a commercial checking account for our LLC. The banker was making copies of the paperwork we brought in which included the FFL 07 license for the business. I saw the bank lady paying extra attention to the FFL and started to worry because I've heard that some financial institutions will not service firearms related businesses. When the lady came back from the copier she said she had to make a phone call before proceeding because she wasn't sure if there was "anything else" we needed to open an account because of the firearms aspect. She called someone up the chain from her on speaker phone and told him about the FFL license. She asked "is that ok? Do we need anything else?" The man on the other end said "Of course that's ok! Why would THAT matter?"
We opened the account without incident and I left happy knowing that I didn't have to find a new bank for ALL my accounts.
