Merchant category codes are four-digit codes that describe the retailer where a purchase is made, without detailing the specific item bought. These codescredit-card issuers to track and restrict purchases — for instance, offering rewards credit cards that give bonus points for travel purchases or cash-back on grocery spending.
Advocates for the new code for firearms merchants say it could help law enforcement spot suspicious purchasing patterns, potentially averting mass shootings where gun purchases were financed by credit cards. in 2012 charged more than $9,000 worth of guns, ammunition and tactical gear in the two months before his attack, which killed 12 people and injured 70.
Gun control advocates, along with two of the country's largest public pension funds, have supported use of the code. Merchant category codes now exist for almost every kind of purchase, including those made at supermarkets, clothing stores, coffee shops and many other retailers.
Oh well
So, save up and pay cash, the way the Founders intended
Pay with 'cash?'
Lol tracking is not new. Ask Google, Amazon, twitter, FB Microsoft, etc
Jesus—is CBS becoming FOX News lite?
Bravo credit card companies
Nothing escapes those paranoid.
Thank you Visa Mastercard AmericanExpress
Use credit card to purchase gift cards. Gift cards to purchase gun. Done.
And?
yeah, and what about it NRA dramatic asf.
I WISH we had a national registry of gun owners.
Folks, Russian money is drying up, let's make people angry so they donate to us... NRA
There should be a national register of owners of assault rifles and military grade weaponry
So tracking a woman's cycle is fine but it's not ok to know if you own a gun? Don't you need a license to own a gun? Last I checked you did not need a license to buy menstruation supplies, but we may soon enough...
If that doesn’t work, there’s always the NRA mailing list, for starters.
Thanks for sharing. If you want to buy a gun, use cash. It's not difficult to get a cash advance on a credit card. It might cost a few bucks, but privacy nowadays has a cost. The purpose is to track everything you do and buy; to market you and control you. Better wake up.
I thought they said they were PROUD gun owners. Why wouldn't they want everyone to know how many and what kind of guns they own?
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And..?
Maybe pay cash instead of credit. Reduces the impulsive buy for that next school shooting.
If you are truly a law abiding citizen you should have no problem with what the credit card companies are doing. What are you afraid of NRA? We all know that you help protect people who shall we say are not so law abiding! Time you became part of the solution.
To Bad, the NRA is notorious but a criminal organization anyway. Way would they have a issue with it, they afraid it would stop criminal for buying a gun. Because they NRA doesn’t care who get killed, even a bunch kids.
Credit card companies, retail stores, mail order outfits, basically everybody, tracks your purchases. Grow up, NRA, and stop whining. You're just looking for another way to politicize a non-political matter. If you don't want your purchases tracked, pay cash.
🔵° A really great move .this information is long overdue. 🤔`
They have every right to pay with cash.
But if people aren't doing anything wrong by making the purchase, then why should they care if their names are recorded They have a Constitutional right to buy guns, and CC companies have a right to establish their own record-keeping parameters.
The GOP has no problem with a database of voters and abortionists but not gun owners. Go figure.
The problem with a national registry is that information could be used to get death threats and harassment from anti gun people or organizations as well as someone hack it and use it as a shopping list for criminals. The majority of criminals are buying from a person with cash.
NRA gets offended by any changes yet they don't change. 😅
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The fact that a registry would even be a problem for people is disgusting.
that's what i want though a national registry of gun owners so that when the trigger gets pulled one of you is a suspect we need a national registry of gun owners
NRA are murderers
Boo hoo
Well duh!
Good.
I'm no NRA member but this is not a path we want to go down. Do we really want banks to have that much power?
Good. NRA aren't militia anyway
nothing wrong with registry why be upset who knows what guns you own? Mine are already in database in case it gets stolen like what happened to me years ago.
They all free to cancel their credit cards and resort to using cash payments or debit cards. Problem solved.
GOOD... I am glad that the credit card industry is doing something that congress refuses to do.
Where was the NRA Gun Sales Company Sponsored Mass Murder Event Today?
This is great! It's about time someone did something. The NRA doesn't care how many kids are killed or life at all except for the almighty gun. We have to do something to stop these deaths. Republicans only care about fetuses that are aborted not the death of children
Thoughts and prayers
Oh Good!
PAY CASH. I don’t need a debit or credit card to get to and spend my money.
Since Conservatives don’t want to follow the US Constitution about regulating a militia well, it’s good someone will.
The NRA IS AN ORGANIZATION OF PEOPLE WHO MUST REGISTER TO JOIN THE NRA SO THEY CAN BE OUTRAGED AT THE IDEA OF REGISTERING TO BUY GUNS. stupidityLoop
✨Impeach Joe Biden✨
Gun dealers who take cash will be suspect.
ever thought about making extra cash and too busy for that ? ,ever wondered how the crypto world works and still confused on how people make money , want to start earning extra 10000USD weekly? Dm fx_leslieraul get started .
Imagine the liberal outcry if we kept a separate data base for abortion users.
NRA is a domestic terrorist organization.
Cash does wonders… in all property transactions… Js! I agree with the cc companies though! I guess Iff’n you’re relying on other peoples money, it’s their choice to record it as such!
NRA, please explain why there should be not record of who owns a gun? Cars have to be registered. You need a license to fish legally. Why shouldn’t guns be tracked? Because you want criminals to be able to buy guns with no record 😡
We need a nation registry of gun owners!!! What is wrong with the people at the NRA? ( well I know 🙄)
Good. Finally something sensible
Well yes
The are grifting their supporters and members. The NRA only cares about money.
They want to strut around with them but don't want to be accountable when something goes wrong.
NRAISATERRORISTORG
Pay cash, problem solved
We pay cash for all our guns. No worries
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