Texas Scorecard by Soli Rice October 7, 2022
“As our respective States’ chief legal officers, we are tasked with protecting the constitutional rights of our citizens.”Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is among a group of state attorneys general fighting back against the latest attempt to suppress the Second Amendment rights of citizens.
On September 9, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) approved a Merchant Category Code (MCC) for firearm retailers. This change in the MCC asks major credit and debit card issuers to track purchases of firearms and flag any that appear to be “suspicious.”
The ISO claims that this move was made to target “gun violence.” Opponents say the move impedes on individual privacy and could lead to a blacklist of gun owners.
“It should be assumed that the goal of this program is to share all collected firearm retailer MCC data with government authorities and potentially private third parties that may include gun control organizations and anti-gun researchers,” said the National Rifle Association.
Major card issuers such as Visa, Mastercard, and American Express have already acted to enforce this code.
Recently, Paxton joined more than 20 other attorneys general in composing a letter to the CEOs of these three major companies. The letter was led by the AGs from Tennessee and Montana.
The AGs contend that the new code will not promote the protection of public safety and infringes on the constitutional right to purchase firearms.
“The potential damage to Americans’ constitutional rights includes hacking this confidential information and misusing the data to punish law-abiding gun owners merely for exercising their 2nd Amendment rights,” Paxton explained.
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