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General Category => National/Breaking News => Second Amendment => Topic started by: mystery-ak on September 10, 2022, 02:05:17 pm
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A credit card industry group has approved a plan to track sales of guns and ammo with a new merchant code
John Sexton Sep 09, 2022 8:05 PM ET
CBS News has a big scoop this afternoon. The industry group that sets international standards for credit card companies has decided to create a new code for the purchase of guns and ammo that, while not identifying the exact purchases, will separate those items from the more generic category they had been lumped in with previously.
Merchant category codes are made up of four digits and are used across all sorts of industries as a means to classify retailers, while not revealing individual product purchases. Credit card companies currently lump firearm retailers in with other outlets, classifying them as either “5999: Miscellaneous retail stores” or “5941: Sporting Goods Stores.”
With a new code for firearms merchants, potentially suspicious purchasing patterns could be flagged to law enforcement — much the same way banks and credit unions made more than 1.4 million suspicious activity reports in 2021 for other types of transactions that might suggest anything from identity theft to terrorist financing.
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https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2022/09/09/the-credit-card-industry-has-approved-a-plan-to-track-sales-of-guns-and-ammo-n495512
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Fortunately, I imagine many Briefers like myself stocked up before much of this new anti-2A nonsense.
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Cash sales only..... :whistle:
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Cash sales only..... :whistle:
Yep, and always have.
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Yep, and always have.
I have two that were bought over a counter - full paperwork... I did it on purpose and consider em to be sacrificial. Two more were bought over the counter and sold off after a few years - Though I cannot tell you who I sold em to...
I learned something painting houses... If you are in the finishing stage and doing the punch list, leave a couple glaring errors for them to catch - Because if you don't they will nitpick the punch to death. But if they feel like they found something, they often will not look much further.
That's what those papered guns are for. A sacrificial tenth.
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I have two that were bought over a counter - full paperwork... I did it on purpose and consider em to be sacrificial. Two more were bought over the counter and sold off after a few years - Though I cannot tell you who I sold em to...
I learned something painting houses... If you are in the finishing stage and doing the punch list, leave a couple glaring errors for them to catch - Because if you don't they will nitpick the punch to death. But if they feel like they found something, they often will not look much further.
That's what those papered guns are for. A sacrificial tenth.
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It appears that some people don't understand the clear meaning of "Shall not be infringed."
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W.Va.'s attorney general responds to the credit card companies: https://ago.wv.gov/Documents/Letter%20to%20VISA%20Mastercard%20and%20American%20Express.pdf