Tag: Merchant Category Codes

Banking on Disarmament

WHAT IS HB38?: HB38, the Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act, prevents payment card networks from using a firearms code for purchases in North Carolina. It would also prevent payment card networks from maintaining a record of individuals residing in this State who own firearms. More importantly, it would prohibit a payment card network from discriminating against a firearms merchant, including refusing to serve or declining a lawful payment card transaction. [More]

What, they don’t want the Department of PreCrime snitchware being pushed by a communist bank?

Breaking the Code

To prohibit payment card networks and covered entities from requiring the use of or assigning merchant category codes that distinguish a firearms retailer from general-merchandise retailer or sporting-goods retailer, and for other purposes. [More]

But…but…but precrime snitchware…

Now we’ll see if there are enough Vichycons joining Democrats to block it…

[H/T CCRKBA]

The Men Behind the Curtain

Tennessee, Georgia, Adopt 2A Privacy Acts to Bar Data Collection on Firearm Sales [More]

Everyone realizes who is behind Merchant Category Codes?

Amalgamated, majority owned by Workers United, “has aggressively carved out a position as the left’s private banker, leveraging deep connections with the Democratic establishment.” Workers United, in turn, is a Service Employees International Union (SEIU) affiliate, which, per The Washington Free Beacon, “rakes in millions from Dem campaigns, liberal orgs.”And the SEIU, in turn, has organized rallies and marched in solidarity with communists.

It’s all about Marx for our Lives.

Always has been.

[Via bondmen]

Thank God Almighty, We’re Free at Last!

This NSSF-supported law protects the privacy and sensitive financial information of people purchasing firearms and ammunition in Iowa. [More]

I sure am seeing a lot of breathless hyperbole over blocking Merchant Category Codes…

So they’re switching from NICS to BIDS…?

And maybe change that to “law-abiding people.” Criminals already have those advantages.

[Via Jess]

The Pre-SWAT Checklist

Guns Down America is headed up by the career prohibitionist who partnered with the commie union-affiliated Amalgamated Bank to come up with its Department of Precrime algorithm.

You don’t think any LE’s sent out to investigate are going to show up unprepared for a mag dump, do you?

[Via WiscoDave]

They’re Makin’ a List and Checkin’ It Twice…

Gun rights group urges senators to press Yellen over Treasury targeting gun transactions – Gun Owners of America alleges the Treasury Department is abusing gun owners’ privacy by monitoring firearms transactions [More]

By hook or by crook, they mean to amass a confiscation list.

[Via Jess]

Banking on Disarmament

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren and 48 other Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday urged top payments companies to resume work on implementing a sales code for gun merchants, according to letters seen by Reuters, citing how states have passed conflicting requirements on the issue. [More]

Instead of worrying about “precrime” (as if that’s their real motive), I’d like to focus on real crime, like those how those gold bars tied in with a violent robbery ended up stashed by co-whiner Bob Menendez.

I never realized that sleazy collectivist was the son of Cuban refugees. And still with the “¿Armas para Que?“

That makes him a double scumbag in my book.

[Via Jess]

As Rome Burns

A male Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. supervisor in San Francisco invited employees to a strip club. A supervisor in Denver had sex with his employee, told other employees about it and pressed her to drink whiskey during work. Senior bank examiners texted female employees photos of their penises. All of the men remained employed at the agency. [More]

And when the house of cards collapses and burns, ordinary lives throughout the land are ruined, and the elites get richer, how many of the derelict guards who let it happen on their watch while they ignored their duties and reveled in self-serving corruption will be called to account?

And why is the insider, whose desk the buck supposedly stops at, not even mentioned? What color is his parachute?

At least any bank left standing will still have Merchant Category Codes…

So Much for Coexistence

Senate Majority Leader @SenSchumer is negotiating with the NRA to pass his priority bill – the SAFE Act, a cannabis banking legislation – with Section 10 added as a sweetener for the NRA-backed Senate Republicans. We appreciate @SenJackReed working to modify the bill to ensure that regulators can warn banks about risky customers – like gun retailers. Congress should not be negotiating with the NRA, a terrorist group that is pushing its any guns to anyone everywhere agenda. Guns are the #1 killer of our children & gun deaths have increased 50% since the Sandy Hook shooting tragedy. [More]

That’s OK. I don’t authorize anyone to negotiate on my behalf with hate groups.

Especially when it involves naked tyranny.

These people are quickly becoming my favorite guntard group — every time the bigger ones start to sound like they’re “commonsense” and “moderate,” just share something these fanatics post to show how any “compromise” will never be enough.

They’re so cartoonishly over the top, I’m starting to suspect Po Murray of being our gal in the gun ban camp…

[Via Jess]

All Your Purchase Are Belong to Us

Unlike decentralized digital currencies like Bitcoin, CBDCs are issued and backed by a government entity and transact on a centralized, permissioned blockchain. Not only would this CBDC model centralize Americans’ financial information, leaving it vulnerable to attack, it could be used as direct surveillance tool into the private transactions of Americans. [More]

Oh look: Joe Smith bought ammo…

And this sector is problematic. Shut it down.

[Via Antigone]

When Mini-Tyrants Rage

A coalition of 14 attorneys general condemned payment networks majors including Visa Inc, American Express Co and Mastercard Inc for pausing work on a merchant code to help detect suspicious gun sales in the United States. [More]

That tells me everything I need to know.

Why is Reuters calling state attorneys general “U.S. attorneys general”?

[Via Jess]

Related UPDATE

Senators Menendez, Warren urge regulators to support new gun sale code [More]

And that tells me everything I need to know, too.

[Via Steve T]

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