I don't doubt this for a moment. Gun stores over the past few years have even had their financing cut off. If you want to stay in business you play by the rules of who has the money supply.
I know of independent alternate news websites that are having trouble getting funds from their website supporters because the funds are being stopped or diverted or even stolen by those wanting them out of business and off the internet.
It is said if you control the money you control everything. People don't have a clue what is going on because mass media, which is 98% controlled, isn't reporting what the people need to know is going on. I have to laugh at where fake news really is coming from.