TexasCHLforum.com

Let's hope it is permanently stopped:

Top payment networks including American Express Co , Mastercard Inc (MA.N) and Visa Inc (V.N) said on Thursday they have paused work on implementing a new sales code for gun merchants, citing Republican pushback in various U.S. states on concerns about improper tracking of consumer behavior.

https://www.reuters.com/business/financ ... ce=twitter

I have another question... Will this be used to deny merchants credit? What good is it even if we can pay cash (for now), but the merchant cannot order from manufacturers?

I hope the gun industry is looking at some kind of class action Tortious Interference claim.

Here is another interesting take at Daily Caller:

A newly approved code intended to track purchases at firearms stores could lead to a situation akin to “privatized government surveillance” of Americans, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

https://dailycaller.com/2022/09/13/iso- ... perts-say/

NRA-ILA has released a statment:

Not in the article, just my 2 cents worth: This appears to be a redo of Operation Choke Point introduced by the Obama Administration. But instead of having the FDIC do it, which was clearly illegal, they get corporations to do it.

The inevitable goal of such a campaign is to convince banks and payment processors to stop dealing with the firearm industry entirely by claiming that it is “too risky” of an industry to be involved with.

https://www.nraila.org/articles/2022091 ... n-registry

This looks like they are copying the playbook with big tech and free speech. Since they can't control the 1st and 2nd Amendment via the government, it will be done by giant corporations.

On Friday, the International Organization for Standards announced that it had approved a new merchant category code for gun retailers. In other words, the ISO caved to longstanding pressure brought by the gun control industry and politicians including a group of US Senators to create the new code.

This is a big step in the gun control industry’s long push to privatize much of gun control after years of being frustrated at the federal level and, most recently, by the Supreme Court’s Bruen ruling.

But this is a first step toward a larger surveillance system that’s ultimately aimed at controlling and deplatforming as many aspects of the firearms industry as possible.


https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/major ... purchases/