Oh, really? Perhaps you should read the news more often... your liberal bias is showing pretty clearly....
Democrats cheer credit card companies agreeing to track gun sales
By Angi Gonzalez and Eden Harris Washington, D.C.
PUBLISHED 5:17 PM ET Oct. 05, 2022
Three credit card companies announced in September they will voluntarily comply with a request from Democrats to create a system to identify gun and ammunition sales.
In
letters to the CEOs of Visa, Mastercard and American Express, Democratic lawmakers, including Massachusetts Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, joined in urging credit card companies to create a new merchant code to differentiate gun and ammunition sales from other purchases.
What You Need To Know
- Three credit card companies announced they will voluntarily comply with a request from Democrats to create a system to identify gun and ammunition sales
- In letters to the CEOs of Visa, Mastercard and American Express Senators Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Ed Markey D-Mass., and other Democrats joined in urging credit card companies to create a new merchant code to differentiate gun and ammunition sales from other purchases
- In June, the Biden administration celebrated signing the most significant piece of gun reform legislation in over 30 years, a bipartisan gun safety measure known as the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act
- Democrats are considering the creation of the new merchant code another triumph, but Republicans call it as a threat to Second Amendment rights, alleging that it opens the door to corporate surveillance