Kentucky’s pro-sportsmen legislators are working to join seven states to ensure that the merchant category codes (MCC) to track firearm and ammunition purchases with credit cards never come to the Bluegrass State.
Yesterday, Wednesday, February 21, the House Banking and Insurance Committee passed House Bill 357. This important legislation prohibits a financial institution or its agent from requiring or incentivizing the use of a firearms merchant category code (MCC) and prohibits any person, governmental or private entity from knowingly or willfully keeping any list, record or registry of privately owned firearms or any list, record or registry of the owners of those firearms created or maintained through the use of a firearms code.
Please use our Take Action button to email your state Representative urging him/her to protect the privacy of credit card purchases of sportsmen and gun owners by voting YES to HB 357.
In 2022, the International Organization 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. 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 into law allowing credit purchases of firearms and ammunition to be tracked. The big credit card companies are moving forward to comply with California’s new law. This means every anti-sportsman and anti-gun legislator will be looking for their chance to introduce legislation to track sportsmen and gun owners’ credit card purchases.
It is now more important than ever for sportsmen and gun owners to protect their credit card purchase privacy.
Don’t forget to share this important alert with your family, friends, and fellow sportsmen asking them also to contact the state Representative urging him/her to support HB 357.
