Tomorrow, January 18th, at 8:30 a.m., in room 156-A, the House Committee on Financial Institutions is scheduled to hold a hearing on House Bill 1084, a bill to protect the credit card privacy rights of sportsmen.
Gun control extremists are using every possible avenue to disarm law-abiding sportsmen and gun owners, including how to uncover personal identifying information on who owns firearms in America. The latest tactic on this front is to track credit card purchases of firearms and ammunition. Gun control fanatics like New York Attorney General Letitia James and California Attorney General Rob Bonta are looking forward to embracing this new “tool” so they can focus their efforts on legal purchasers of firearms and ammunition in their ongoing quest to destroy our firearms freedom.
In September of 2022, the International Organizations for Standardization (ISO) approved the creation of a new merchant category code (MCC) for firearm retailers to use when their customers use a credit card to purchase firearms and ammunition. Credit card companies have always used merchant codes, but previous codes were general with firearm store sales listed as general merchandise or sporting goods. The new codes are specific to firearms and ammunition. The big credit card companies like American Express, Mastercard, and Visa have already decided to pause the implementation of MCCs.
Pro-gun legislators in several states have already introduced and passed legislation on the topic and now it is Indiana’s turn. HB 1084 prohibits a merchant acquirer or a payment card network from using, or requiring the use of, an MCC in a way that distinguishes a firearms retailer with at least one physical location in Indiana from general merchandise retailers or sporting goods retailers. The bill also prohibits a governmental entity or any other person from knowingly or willfully keeping any list, record, or registry of (1) privately owned firearms or (2) the owners of firearms with respect to Indiana consumers.
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