Earlier this week, both House Bill 389 and Senate Bill 281, bills to protect Alabama sportsmen’s credit card purchase privacy rights, passed their respective committees. There is talk that the banking community is attempting to push an amendment to remove their liability from the bills. Please use the both Take Action buttons to email your state Senator and Representative and ask them to SUPPORT HB 389 and SB 281 without amendments.
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As previously reported, 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. Big credit card companies are working to comply with California’s new law. it is more important now than ever for the Heart of Dixie to protect its sportsmen.
HB 389 / SB 281 prohibits a financial institution from requiring merchants to use a merchant category code (MCC) to distinguish a firearms retailer from a general merchandise retailer or a sporting goods retailer. The bill also authorizes the Attorney General to investigate alleged violations of this act, to enforce this act by bringing an action to recover civil penalties and to restrain and enjoin an individual or entity from violating this act.
Don’t forget to share this important alert with your family, friends, and fellow sportsmen. Ask them to contact their state Senator and Representative and ask them to support HB 389 and SB 281 without amendments.
About the Sportsmen’s Alliance: The Sportsmen’s Alliance protects and defends America’s wildlife conservation programs and the pursuits – hunting, fishing and trapping – that generate the money to pay for them. Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation is responsible for public education, legal defense and research. Its mission is accomplished through several distinct programs coordinated to provide the most complete defense capability possible. Stay connected to Sportsmen’s Alliance: Online, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
