1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Firearms Manufacturers and Dealers Protection Act of 2017 . 2. Findings and purpose (a) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Because of the actions of the Department of Justice and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (referred to in this section as the FDIC ), the program known as Operation Choke Point has become a threat to the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and to firearms dealers and manufacturers. (2) In the summer of 2011, the FDIC published an article in which it designated firearms sales and ammunition sales as high-risk industries. (3) The article published by the FDIC thus put manufacturers and dealers of firearms in the same category as cable box descramblers, credit card schemes, drug paraphernalia, escort services, get-rich products, home-based charities, lottery sales, online gambling, payday loans, Ponzi schemes, pornography, racist materials, and tobacco sales. (4) Most of the businesses grouped with the sale of firearms and ammunition involve activities that are inherently pernicious or patently illegal. (5) The obvious intent, therefore, of the inclusion of businesses in the FDIC's high-risk category was the eradication of those businesses. (6) The FDIC sought to achieve this eradication by encouraging banks to withdraw credit provided to targeted industries and otherwise terminate financial relationships with the businesses in question. (7) FDIC officials discussed mechanisms for guaranteeing that bank officials saw the list and [got] the message . (8) The FDIC and the Department of Justice worked together to implement Operation Choke Point to actively realize the objective of eradicating high-risk industries such as the sale of firearms and ammunition. (9) According to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of Representatives, the FDIC and the Department of Justice may have misled Congress about this partnership in connection with Operation Choke Point. (10) Committee language in both the