WASHINGTON, D.C. — NSSF, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, is encouraged by the announcement from Visa and MasterCard that they will “pause” plans to implement a special Merchant Category Code (MCC) specific to purchases at firearm retailers with their credit cards. That announcement was later echoed by American Express and Discover, which previously announced plans to implement the special codes.
This is a positive development that the major credit card companies have recognized the hazards of implementing this special MCC for purchases at a firearm retailer. However, this is an announcement of a pause, not an abandonment of these special codes.
NSSF is committed to ensuring that these specific MCCs not be used at all as they have the potential for exploitation of customer privacy and denial of services by politically-motivated activists. These codes were the product of Amalgamated Bank and Andrew Ross Sorkin to specifically track the lawful purchases of firearms and ammunition by law-abiding Americans.
In reality, it is just the first step, by the admission of these two parties, to isolating and eventually denying the exercise of a Constitutional right by those who oppose lawful firearm ownership. NSSF will continue to work with state legislators and Congress to put an end to this blatantly discriminatory practice of using private enterprise to construct a back-door firearm registry.
About The National Shooting Sports Foundation
NSSF is the trade association for the firearm industry. Its mission is to promote, protect and preserve hunting and shooting sports. Formed in 1961, NSSF has a membership of thousands of manufacturers, distributors, firearm retailers, shooting ranges, sportsmen’s organizations, and publishers nationwide. For more information, visit nssf.org
I don’t trust the credit card companies to do the right thing at all and the right thing is to not track firearm purchases.
I hereby announce I am implementing a “pause” in my use of credit cards of any kind for any purpose until such time as the relevant companies announce they have found a fix for their “cranio-rectal inversion syndrome”
They need us a whole bunch more than we need them.
Or just picked a day to make a run on the banks for cash.
Guess the clowns running these credit card companies decided that thier stupidity could cut onto thier profit margin . Nothing like the threat of loss of income to make the greedy clowns see the errors in thier ways .
I will be doing all gun store transactions in cash or money orders.
I will continue to use my plastic to purchase groceries, gas, and grub, even use it at the doctor and dentist.
But as for gunz……nah, that’ll be a hard pass NOPE! Cash will be king there at the store counter.
The problem is, I like to buy ammo on sale, in bulk, from online. Plastic is the norm there, unless anyone knows of a reliable replacement that isn’t so easily tracked?
Attention from whom? Don’t we have the right to spend our money as we please?
And just what is the bottom line here in all of this? A 100% corrupted and evil legal system is being used as a cudgel to beat us all into submission to the criminals in various governmental agencies!! Since when does the blatantly criminal legal system have the right to punish anybody?
Where is it written down, that every man or woman who gets sucked into the machinations of the legal system, will be treated fairly and evenly by it? If we don’t have that guarantee, then why would anyone choose to be involved in it in any way?