On Tuesday, after the Wall Street Journal contacted Wells Fargo, Mr. Brozzetti received a call from the bank, acknowledging his letter and offering to exempt him from the increase.
An estimated 40% of all gun sales are private and therefore exempt from any background check, offering prohibited buyers a ready avenue to obtain guns, said Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
The story goes back at least as far as World War II, when industries, desperately competing for labor but unable to raise wages under wartime price controls, began offering health insurnace as a form of compensation exempt from wage restrictions.