Posted on 09/08/2022 12:49:27 PM PDT by bitt
The mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, along with other elected officials and state pension fund trustees, have requested that major credit card companies implement a weapon code for the purchase of firearms and ammunition.
“New York City Mayor Eric Adams, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, trustees of the New York City Employees’ Retirement System, Teachers’ Retirement System and Board of Education Retirement System, and elected leaders today called on American Express, MasterCard and Visa, three of the world’s largest credit card companies, to support a proposal to establish a merchant category code (MCC) for gun and ammunition stores,” according to the news release.
Officials in New York City and the state of New York have asked American Express, MasterCard, and Visa to make a four-digit merchant category code (MCC) like the ones used for other retail categories to better identify and report suspicious behavior, such as large purchases of firearms.
“The creation of a new code would help financial institutions detect and report suspicious activity, such as unusually large purchases of firearms or ammunition, or purchases from multiple stores, that may be used for criminal purposes,” it claimed.
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I’d say that we need a non-trackable purchase method which means a non credit card. On the other hand, my employer has, as awards, given out no-name Visa & MC cards so I wonder if they can be tracked?
One thing I am determined about, I do not want a ‘cashless society’, that path will lead to a ‘social credit scoring’ and government ability to oversight!
I and my two biggest friends could not lift my collection but I’ve never purchased a firearm with a card or a check (remember those?), cash only. I’ve always thought the less of a paper trail the better.
Stupid idea, but that's Democrats for ya.
Easily side stepped:
USE CASH
DO NOT BUY OFF THE INTERNET
At this point in time-—UPS drivers KNOW more than anyone else WHO has such purchases.
Buy Twinkies for $750, get a free AR15.
Adams might be the dumbest mayor of a top-10 global city in all of human history. I mean, knuckle-dragging, blue-gum dumb. It's amazing to me that anyone would voluntarily visit NYC.
So Government asking the Credit Card Companies to act as a State Actor is addressed in United States constitutional law, a state actor is a person who is acting on behalf of a governmental body, and is therefore subject to limitations imposed on government by the United States Constitution.
Time to drag the Credit Card Companies into Federal Court!
Gross violation of privacy. But when did laws ever stop dimmocommies?
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