Tag: Merchant Category Codes

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]

Merchant Codes Show for Gun Owners It Doesn’t Pay to Discover

But if the merchant codes don’t go to the SKU (stock keeping unit) level and identify specific items purchased, some may question what the big deal is. For that, look to the proponents of the codes and how they have announced they intend to use them. [More]

The rope-selling “capitalists” don’t seem to realize what historically happens when their usefulness is up.

It Pays to Discover?

Discover Financial Services, a provider of credit cards, told Reuters it will allow its network to track purchases at gun retailers come April, making it the first among its peers to publicly give a date for moving ahead with the initiative, which is aimed at helping authorities probe gun-related crimes. [More]

So the rope-selling capitalists at Discover have sided with the in-your-face communists at SEIO/Amalgamated on their precrime snitch system.

Any gun owner who does not cancel his Discover card is giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Any FFL who accepts them is willfully giving up customer information.

That seems like the kind of thing NSSF could make go widespread — if it wanted to.

[Via Jess]

UPDATE

The merchant code in question is “5723 – Gun and ammunition shops,” and to that end, I’m hoping to get some Twitter play out of this:

Code Red

Florida’s new agriculture commissioner proposes ban on Merchant Category Codes for gun, ammo purchases [More]

ICYMI:

[Via Jess]

‘Progressive’ Bank Developing ‘Department of Precrime’ ‘Snitchware’ on Gun Owners

For some reason, the IT term “GIGO” (Garbage In, Garbage Out) comes to mind. That and Priscilla Sims Brown sitting at her desk in a trance asking, “Magic 8 Ball: Should I report this purchase to the feds?” and then acting on its response. [More]

Who knew Amalgamated kept a trio of precogs in a tank over at HQ?

Marxist Category Codes

Gillibrand calls upon feds to implement advisory for financial institutions to report suspicious gun purchases [More]

What an evil political whore.

And I can prove it.

Just don’t tell Jacob.

I’ve got a new AmmoLand article on the bank codes I have yet to promote here. I had solo granddaughter duty for 3 hours today and I’m behind on everything.

[Via Jess]

Collusion by Any Other Name

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, along with Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti and a coalition of 22 other states, is alerting the Chief Executive Officers of three major credit card companies that the recent creation of a Merchant Category Code for the processing of firearms purchases from gun stores is potentially a violation of consumer protection and antitrust laws. [More]

You fellas are going to have to do more than alert them.

All of Them?

Over 100 GOP Reps. Sign Letter to Credit Card CEOs: Which Gun Sales Do You Plan to Flag? [More]

My guess is they’ll play it on the risk management CYA side and not want to be accused of being negligent for NOT reporting someone who later creates a liability. That, and politically powerful tyrant wannabes will be putting on the squeeze.

It’s typical Opposite Day “progressivism,” really– they bow to an ISO category “standard” with no clearly defined and legally supportable standards for snitch triggers.

[Via bondmen]

And So It Begins

MCS has removed firearm sales from our website. The step was taken to ensure we would not have to change our merchant code ID with our credit card processors. Transactions on our website are classified as sporting goods. [More]

What I’m wondering is why they appear to think it will only apply to online sales.

Brought to you courtesy of embedded communists who want to destroy the old structures and set up an unchallengeable totalitarian world order.

Change my mind.

[Via Bluesgal]

Metastasizing

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]

Where Credit is Due

Attorneys general from New York and California sent a letter Friday to the CEOs of three major credit card companies asking them to establish a specific code to identify purchases from gun stores. That code, called a merchant category code, could then be used to flag purchases of weapons and ammunition and make it easier for law enforcement officials in their investigations.[More]

I warned about this here and identified the literal communist supporters behind it here.

[Via Robert J]

Proposed Banking Merchant Category Codes Latest Backdoor Ploy to ID Gun Owners

The software would know “prohibited person” status? How? Are banks now going to tap into NICS and perform after-the-fact “background checks”? How is such data sharing with private parties authorized by law? [More]

Rope-selling phony “capitalists,” that is, embedded Marxists and economic fascists, are banking on disarmament.

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