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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Feb. 22, 2023) - On Tuesday, a Florida Senate committee passed a bill that would prohibit financial institutions operating in the state from using a credit card merchant code to track the purchases of firearms and ammunition. Sen. Daniel Burgess (R) filed Senate Bill 214 (S214) on Jan. 17. The legislation would prohibit
Titled the Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act, the proposed law would prohibit a financial institution or its agent from requiring or “assigning” a specific firearm or ammunition merchant code to any firearms business located in Mississippi.
The legislation would prohibit any West Virginia governmental entity from accessing or obtaining a record of a transaction involving a credit card that is retrieved, characterized, generated, labeled, sorted, or grouped based on the assignment of a firearms code without a warrant or a subpoena in most situations.
The conflict between gun owners and credit card companies is heating up as so-called red states move to ...
Credit card companies will track gun sales, to some degree, but this is likely to be just the beginning.