House Passes Bill Preventing Credit Card Companies from Tracking Gun Sales

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House Passes Bill Preventing Credit Card Companies from Tracking Gun Sales
AWR HAWKINS16 Jul 2026
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/07/16/house-passes-bill-preventing-credit-card-companies-from-tracking-gun-sales/

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On July 14, 2026, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to block credit card companies from tracking gun and ammunition sales.

The bill, H.R. 1181, passed on a vote of 221 to 201. Two-hundred-and-fifteen Republicans voted for the bill, along with five Democrats and one Independent.

H.R. 1181 is sponsored by Riley Moore (R-WV).

Breitbart News reported Moore’s introduction of the bill on February 12, 2025, noting that he titled it the “Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act.”

He introduced it after major credit card companies succumbed to the gun control lobby during the Biden Administration and made plans to track the sales of guns and ammo.

 




 
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Champion of Credit Card Tracking of Gun Owners Having a Bad Time of Things
By Tom Knighton  | 8:29 AM | July 24, 2026
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2026/07/24/champion-of-credit-card-tracking-gun-ownerss-having-a-bad-time-of-things-n1233279?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=fc85d9fd0a377773055f1925941bbce485d3c69b5dace0c187ab5912dd7d0cd7&lctg=26251812

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The idea behind using merchant category codes (MCCs) to "track" gun sales has been around for a few years, and it was premised on the idea that banks could use the same tools they use to detect money laundering to detect that someone was about to go and commit a mass killing. Of course, this idea only makes sense if you only look at mass shooters and their buying tendencies without comparing them to the population as a whole, and even then, the idea falls apart quickly.

MCCs are store-specific, not item-specific. That means a credit card company can't tell if you bought a pile of guns or a fishing boat from Bass Pro Shops. All they can see is that you spent a lot of money at a store with a gun store MCC.

But no one is really comfortable with our financial institutions tracking our sales, judging our purchases as if they're some watchdog, rather than a service we use to finance purchases.




 
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Buy your guns off the back of a truck with cash money. Nobody knows nobody. All the tracking problems disappear. Only two of my guns were bought over a counter. All the rest, nobody knows.