Tomorrow, March 27, at 10 a.m., in room E, the Louisiana Senate Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs is scheduled to hear Senate Bill 301, a bill to protect the credit card purchase 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.
In September 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. At the time, big credit card companies like American Express, Mastercard and Visa paused the implementation of MCCs.
Unfortunately, California, the state that never says no to an opportunity to attack law-abiding sportsmen and gun owners, passed legislation allowing credit purchases of firearms and ammunition to be tracked. Big credit card companies are working to comply with California’s new law.
Pro-gun legislators in several states have already introduced and passed legislation protecting its sportsmen’s credit card purchase privacy, and now it is Louisiana’s turn.
SB 301 prohibits a financial entity from using a firearms merchant category code to distinguish a firearms retailer from other retailers and prohibits a financial entity from taking any action against a customer or merchant that is intended to suppress or track lawful commerce involving firearms.
Please use our Take Action button to email the committee members and urge them to vote “Yes” on SB 301. With credit card companies working to comply with California’s credit card tracking law, it is even more important that the Pelican State protect its sportsmen and gun owners’ credit card purchase privacy.
Don’t forget to share this important alert with your family, friends, and fellow sportsmen and urge them to contact the committee members and urge them to support SB 301. The committee needs to hear that Louisiana is a sportsmen’s paradise and that it must protect the credit card privacy of its sportsmen by supporting SB 301.
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