GOP attorneys general push Visa, Mastercard and AmEx not to track gun sales

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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.

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. But the 2nd Amendment lobby and its advocates have argued that the merchant code would do a poor job of tracking potential red flags and could unfairly flag legal gun purchases. A sale of a gun safe worth thousands of dollars would be categorized as a gun store sale just as much as someone buying thousands of dollars worth of ammunition, for example.

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