Notes from the Resistance
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.
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:
Florida’s new agriculture commissioner proposes ban on Merchant Category Codes for gun, ammo purchases [More]
ICYMI:
[Via Jess]
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?
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.
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]
Florida Will Act Against Credit Card Companies Who Target the 2nd Amendment [More]
Good. Hit ’em where it hurts.
[Via MPH]
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.
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]
David Codrea on banks, credit cards, and AFT analysis comparing two AFT citizen confrontations caught on tape [Listen]
And on the ATF Hunter Biden lawsuit– I broke the news in the third segment.
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.
[Via Bluesgal]
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]
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]
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.
