Every year gun-control extremists work to come up with new ideas and tactics to disarm America’s law-abiding sportsmen and gun owners. This year is no different and Montana’s pro-gun legislators are pushing back.
Senate Bill 359 protects Montana’s sportsmen and gun owners by prohibiting a financial institution from applying a code or otherwise denoting or recording a transaction with information (such as firearms) that is different from that of a general transaction.
Many will recall that in September 2022, the International Organizations for Standardization (ISO) approved the creation of a new merchant code for firearm retailers to use when their customers use a credit card to purchase firearms and ammunition. The big credit card companies like American Express, Mastercard and Visa are already working to implement this new merchant code. 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.
Just as important as protecting our credit card and purchase privacy, Senate Bill 361 prohibits any finance, lending, credit, insurance, investment or state investment entity from discriminating against any individual, group, association or business involved in the manufacture, distribution, sale or possession of firearms, firearm ammunition or firearms accessories. This bill will protect the Second Amendment and our firearms freedom from discrimination.
Both these bills are scheduled to be heard tomorrow, Feb. 22, at 8 a.m. in room 422, by the Senate Business, Labor, and Economic Committee. Please use our take action button to email the members of the committee urging them to protect sportsmen and gun owners by supporting SB 359 and SB 361.
Don’t forget to urge your family, friends, and fellow sportsmen to also email the members of the respective committees to support SB 359 and SB 361.
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.
