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Banks Increasingly Back Political Scheme To Track Gun Purchases by Credit Card
Reason ^ | 3.6.2023 | J.D. TUCCILLE

Posted on 03/06/2023 12:49:18 PM PST by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 03/06/2023 12:49:18 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

ATM some cash to pay the bill.


2 posted on 03/06/2023 12:51:47 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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Banks don’t need any prompting from fedzilla to spy and snitch on their customers. They do it willingly. All bank employees who deal directly with customers are trained to get to know the customers so the employees can report any behavior they think is “unusual.”


3 posted on 03/06/2023 12:53:23 PM PST by Avalon Memories (Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. -- P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: rktman; nickcarraway

The pot shops here in California don’t take credit cards. Just bring cash. Only a fool would try to rob a gun store.


4 posted on 03/06/2023 12:56:02 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: nickcarraway

Needs to be banned, although the libertarians running Reason may not like that.


5 posted on 03/06/2023 12:58:45 PM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: monkeyshine

Why don’t they take credit cards?


6 posted on 03/06/2023 12:59:23 PM PST by nickcarraway
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I’m not 100% sure but think it’s because banks (or CC companies) are federally regulated and pot is not legal at the federal level. But obviously the banks and the feds are looking the other way as these massive cash deposits are made every day from 1000’s of pot shops. Plus of course, the states and cities are raking in cash on the taxes. If the feds stuck their noses in the states would cry. But the banks so far don’t want to stick their necks out I guess.


7 posted on 03/06/2023 1:02:12 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: nickcarraway

Cash Only for just about everything is my motto, I use a credit card for mail order stuff I just can’t go buy and gas in my airplane. Everything else is Cash or a check is mailed.

Every Time you make an electronic transaction, your are tagged, tracked, marketed and then bought and sold like a $2 whore to advertisers.


8 posted on 03/06/2023 1:04:06 PM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. — George Orwell, “1984”


9 posted on 03/06/2023 1:05:40 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (D.I.S.T.R.A.C.T.I.O.N.S.)
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To: eyeamok

And electronic transactions are exactly what they want!


10 posted on 03/06/2023 1:07:34 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (D.I.S.T.R.A.C.T.I.O.N.S.)
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To: nickcarraway

There are nearly 400 million guns in this country. And they want to start “tracking” now?

It’s laughable.


11 posted on 03/06/2023 1:10:16 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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"ATM some cash to pay the bill."

How much longer do you think it will be before the government clowns:

A) Prohibit gun dealers from accepting cash

or

B) Get rid of cash altogether? You know they want to.

12 posted on 03/06/2023 1:11:31 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: nickcarraway

Bank of America offers their Snitchin™ Service as a free benefit to all of their card holders.

They’re saving the taxpayers millions by Snitchin™ on their customers to the FBI without requiring the pesky and time-consuming process of obtaining a meddlesome warrant.


13 posted on 03/06/2023 1:14:54 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: nickcarraway

In 2-3 years from now we will all be on the QFS and not using banks.


14 posted on 03/06/2023 1:19:44 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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What about buying legal marijuana with credit card? There are many medical issues: https://www.cdc.gov/marijuana/health-effects/index.html


15 posted on 03/06/2023 1:20:58 PM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: nickcarraway
Cancel Discover.

The good news is that this will probably spawn a competing payment solution (in addition to cash)
16 posted on 03/06/2023 1:40:49 PM PST by indthkr
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To: rktman

Who buys guns or ammunition with a credit card?


17 posted on 03/06/2023 1:42:17 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: nickcarraway

BETCHA gun stores are happy-—NO MORE OUTRAGEOUS C C FEES ON HIGH END PURCHASES.

At least $25 on every $1000.


18 posted on 03/06/2023 1:43:18 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Sicon

Simply get rid of gun buyers. 😲


19 posted on 03/06/2023 1:44:47 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: kiryandil

LOTS of people.


20 posted on 03/06/2023 1:45:20 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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