Posted on 09/22/2022 4:45:45 AM PDT by Jacquerie
On Wednesday, Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis issued a statement claiming that he would work with Florida lawmakers to penalize credit card companies like Visa and MasterCard should they apply a new sales code to distinguish firearm purchases at U.S. gun stores.
The announcement follows claims in the media that Visa, MasterCard, and American Express will create a new merchant category code for gun sellers. According to gun control advocates, the new sales code provides banks and credit card firms with tools to identify irregular patterns of purchases, such as a potential mass shooter stockpiling weapons and ammunition and report them to law enforcement.
Patronis, however, asserts that the new code’s use is a violation of second amendment rights, claiming on Twitter that the companies’ use of the tracking measure amounts to a corporate watch list.
Patronis went further to claim that the group of credit card companies is sympathetic to ESG standards, otherwise known as Environmental, Social, and Government regulations. These indicators are increasingly being used by investors to assess the social and environmental worth of the business or company they are interested in acquiring or investing in. Patronis last month spoke out against such metrics.
“If we come to the legislative session and companies like Visa, Mastercard, and American Express are generating these reports to create a chilling effect against the purchase of firearms, then I’ll work with the Legislature to pass a law penalizing businesses who are targeting the right to bear arms,” said Patronis. “We’ve seen a groundbreaking ruling come out of the Fifth Circuit limiting corporations’ ability to curtail American’s constitutional rights.
Patronis additionally threatened to bar such companies from conducting business in Florida in an attempt to “send a message to large corporations.”
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Baloney. Everybody knows mass shooters buy their mass-shooting Barrett AK-15s from gun shows where they pay cash and there are zero background checks.
According to gun control advocates, the new sales code provides banks and credit card firms with tools to identify irregular patterns of purchases, such as a potential mass shooter stockpiling weapons and ammunition and report them to law enforcement.
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Fascism when private business work with governments doing what our laws and Constitution prohibits the government from doing.
Glad I live here. I have thought that the “mark of the beast” may not be an actual visible mark but like this...receiving an ESG number or something like that.
Pretty sure he is our next governor.
- How many guns should a normal person own?
- About five.
- That sounds like a gun enthusiast to me...
- No a gun enthusiasts owns about fifteen.
- That sounds like a person obsessed with guns to me...
- No, people obsessed with guns own hundreds.
- That sounds like a psycho to me....
- No, psychos seldom own guns, or get maybe one or two.
- But that sounds like a normal person to me....
- No, a normal person owns about five, we already covered that...
Bud’s Gun Shop offers a 3% cash discount for purchases at their website. Either mail in a check (that will have to clear first), or a direct transfer from a bank acct.
I can see more gun vendors doing it this way.
? Are you missing the /s, or are you serious.?
Yep...I should’ve included a /sarc tag. I was simply mocking the Left’s beliefs.
I think that the “AK15” was a dead giveaway.
Did you forget the “sarcasm” tag, or do you not know it’s a left-wing fantasy that a firearm can be purchased at a “gun show” without a background check?
Every state has a corporation commission and business governance agency that have the legal power to disallow licenses to operate in their state.
Time to start using these... Operating in your state is a privilege not a right.
HA.!! I missed that.. :)
I have seventeen. My granddaughter (who BTW enjoys shooting my 1911) joked "Grandpa, why do you have so many guns?" I told her "My safe's capacity is 18 - so I've got one more to go!" "Until you get your next safe!" She laughed.
... the new sales code provides banks and credit card firms with tools to identify irregular patterns of purchases, such as a potential mass shooter stockpiling weapons and ammunition and report them to law enforcement.
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This will do nothing except act as a form of intimidation. The FBI inevitably supplies arms to the biggest of the mass shooters (e.g. Mandalay Bay).
The last gun show I went to...3-4 weeks ago in Hillsville, VA...prices were outrageous. There are several guns, whose prices I’m familiar with, I might’ve paid attention to if I’d seen them, but I’m a NC resident and couldn’t purchase there anyway.
The only ammo I was curious about was CCI Mini Mag 22LR. Prices were $20-$25 for a 100-round box! I passed. I did find the hollow point version of the Mini Mag at a Wal-Mart in Charlottesville. Bought their last 2 boxes for $10 each...on a charge card. I read the article about guns/ammo charge card purchases a couple days later.
I guess I’m on another list now.
Excellent. I’ve said this several times....the red states need to get together and adopt legislation to punish big tech censorship, to punish any attempts to discourage fossil fuels, to punish any attempts at gun grabbing.....in short to punish any attempts at pushing the Leftist agenda through the market.
No matter what they claim, these woke CEOs could not bear to lose half the country. That would be an absolutely crippling blow for their companies and would get their asses fired by shareholders immediately.
If the Leftists like Cuomo can lean on banks, if Leftists in Commiefornia can lean on hedge funds, etc then red states can leverage their political power to lean on them the other way. We must engage in the fight in the same way the Left has. We have the means to do it.
I’m up to about 80. There are still dozens and dozens on my list to get.
Absolutely...
I haven't made it to a gun show in years.. I once bought a Chinese SKS for $90 at a show in Chillicothe.(?)
I sure wish all my investments were that successful. I should have bought a dozen of them... :)
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