A group of Republican attorneys general are pushing the major payment networks _ Visa, Mastercard and American Express _ to drop their plans to start tracking sales at gun stores
The letter comes more than a week after the payment networks said they would adopt the International Organization for Standardizations new merchant code for sales at gun stores. – A group of Republican attorneys general are pushing the major payment networks — Visa, Mastercard and American Express — to drop their plans to, arguing the plans could infringe on consumer privacy and push legal gun sales out of the mainstream financial network.
In their letter, the AGs threaten to use all legal tools at their disposal to stop the payment networks from tracking gun sales. In recent weeks gun control advocates argued that separately categorizing gun store sales could potentially flag a surge of suspicious sales activity to public safety officials. They have used the example from the, where the shooter purchased $26,000 worth of ammunition ahead of the massacre.
The payment networks said when they adopted the policy that they are just following the guidance from ISO. It will be largely up to the banks who issue the credit and debit cards to decide whether they want to stop sales under certain merchant codes.
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