A little over a month ago, merchant category codes for guns were still a little-discussed backdoor ploy.
Now they’re pounding on the front door with ISO announcing a global standard. (I know a bit about the process from a past life, back when everybody thought it was just about quality standards.)
Just a month and a half since my initial Firearms News warning, look at how this is dominating the narrative. Bottom line, if you want to do business, bureaucrats in Geneva say you have to turn snitch.
Funny thing about all those headlines spreading the same talking points: None of them are documenting the communist front groups behind the demand for this.
[Via several of you]
I kinda have vague memories of buying stuff with something called “cash.”
Now, I know what people reading that are thinking. Eventually they’ll figure it our and ban cash.
But that might be easier said than done.
“Article I, Section 8, Clause 5:
[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; . . .”
All credit card sales from a gun store will be flagged a sale from a gun store, whether they be firearms, ammo, firearm accessories, firearm safes and storage lockers, archery equipment, capsaicin chemical defense dispensers, t-shirts or caps. Sales from sporting goods stores will be flagged as sales from a sporting goods store store which may or may not include firearms and ammo. Sales from a pawn shop will be flagged as sales from a pawn shop which may or may not include firearms and ammo.
I predict that what we now consider a gun store will minimally expand what they offer to be reclassified as a sporting goods store, even if all they offer that they did not offer before this change in merchant coding are baseball bats. Watch for promotions of free baseball bats included with the sale of firearms. Carry barbed wire to accessorize the baseball bat and you can then be considered a farm and ranch supply store.
All ‘gun related’ (guns, ammo, parts, supplies, etc.) will now be lumped in as ‘suspicious transactions’ and directly sent to fedzilla.
And fedzilla will rightly claim ‘we ain’t recording anything’, ‘we can’t help it if Visa, MC, Discover, AMEX and all the rest report these things in real time.’ ‘It is simply our duty to investigate every transaction we can, in order to insure safety of course.’
If cash sales increase, the banks will demand retailers provide detail info on every such sale and do the same reporting up the chain.
Plausible deniability, always.