On Wednesday, January 21, the Senate Public Safety Committee is holding a hearing on an important bill to protect the financial credit card privacy of Arizona’s sportsmen and gun owners from overreach by financial institutions and third-party data collectors. SB 1058 is scheduled to be heard at 1:30 p.m. in Senate Hearing Room 109 in Phoenix.
The Sportsmen’s Alliance is here to protect every aspect of sportsmen’s rights. This means defending the right to keep and bear arms and defending the privacy and financial infrastructure that allows that right to be exercised freely.
SB 1058, the “Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act,” should look familiar to sportsmen. It is returning from last year, where it passed the Senate and the House, and Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed it.
Please use the Take Action button to email the committee members and urge them to protect Arizona’s sportsmen’s privacy again by voting “Yes” on SB 1058. Financial transactions involving legal products should not be used to create de facto registries of law-abiding gun owners. Arizona citizens should not have to worry about their legal private purchases being flagged or monitored by payment networks and government officials.
The primary objective of SB 1058 is to prohibit the use of specific merchant category codes (MCCs) to track firearm and ammunition purchases. This legislation is essential for several reasons:
- Preserves Privacy: Financial transactions involving legal products should not be used to create de facto registries of law-abiding gun owners. Arizona citizens expect their private purchases not to be flagged or monitored by payment networks.
- Prevents Discrimination: By prohibiting distinctive codes for firearm retailers, this bill ensures that lawful businesses and their customers are not unfairly targeted or subjected to secondary surveillance based on their exercise of a Second Amendment right.
- Prevents Government Overreach: This bill correctly bars government entities from using financial data to compile lists of firearm owners, reinforcing the principle that the state should not monitor the private, legal activities of its citizens without cause.
Don’t forget to share this important Take Action alert with your family, friends, and fellow sportsmen. Urge them to email the committee members and urge them to vote “Yes” on SB 1058.
There has never been a more crucial time in sportsmen’s history than now to be involved and engaged in protecting our way of life. If we remain silent, others will shape the outcome. We cannot allow that to happen in Arizona. The legacy of hunting, fishing, and trapping depends on our actions today. Urge your family and friends to join you and the Sportsmen’s Alliance in the fight against the rising tide of animal extremism and gun control activism.
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