Posted on 01/31/2008 12:37:02 PM PST by fr4tad
A major credit card company (First Data Corp., which operates Citi Merchant Services.) has issued a letter to a gun dealer canceling his payment processing services because of corporate concerns firearms were being sold to consumers in other states, in "a non face-to-face environment." Now the move has raised the ire of the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Cancel the cards that use this service.
If I had any Citi cards, I would cancel.
What’s in YOUR wallet?
Imagine the screeching if a credit card company tried to this to abortion clinics.
This was announced quite some time ago (weeks?)
Prepaid Visa and ATM’s in all gun stores’
I have canceled my two Citi cards and will never again use them or any Citi services for anything.
Yes and then reversed, but you know clowns at the daily.
WND sure covers breaking news (/sarcasm). Already discussed at length here at FR, TheHighRoad, AR15.com, and I’m sure plenty of other places.
All you have to do is handle the transaction through a federally licensed firearms dealer.
Most pawnshops, for instance, have an FFL licensee and will handle the transaction for a flat-rate of $25 or 10% of the purchase price.
The end state was always clear and all these little “paper cuts” are there to construct little hurdles bureaucratic, cost-prohibitive, and through exclusion. Child locks, taxes, no lead, assault weapons (whatever that means), waiting periods, any small criminal infraction will deny you the right to bear arms (Even if you paid for your actions), gun free zones (We see how well that works), extra licensing fees or taxes, laws restricting transport and storage in stores........
When you look behind the scene of those advocating gun control, the end state is not some child lock, to protect the “children,” no lead to protect the “environment,” or waiting periods to stop “crimes of passion.” Their ultimate agenda is to literally undermine the Second Amendment and deny this right to the people. They can’t come out and outright crap on the US Constitution, but they can reinterpret it, and cut it to shreds with administrative policies and laws that frankly go against the spirit of what was meant when the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were written.
To hell with this. Just closed both Citi accounts.
Heck with them!
I paid cash for my last gun purchase a week ago - no one else’s database needs to know I bought a GUN...
I canceled mine, two months ago. I have no use for Citi Group.
Scary that even though this was discussed ad nauseam a couple of weeks ago (and turned out to be the action of an unauthorized employee, in conflict with company policy), that so many people here still don’t have a clue what credit card processing is, and think they could avoid using this processor by cancelling their Citi credit cards. The processor provides services to the MERCHANT, who uses a single processor for all credit cards regardless of who issued the card. You have no idea what company a merchant is using as a processor and you could pay with a credit card issued by the NRA and it would still be processed through this processor at every store where you use the credit card — drugstore, grocery, gas station, you name it.
Sure it is legal, which is why this is so outrageous. There is a face to face interaction with the FFL holder when you pick your gun up and the background check is done. Probably better to buy your guns with cash anyway.
While each service only processes some cards, it's really the merchants that are their customer. The merchant signs a contract with the service to process charges for them. The service then goes to individual institution to collect the money and pass it back to the merchant.
Unless the contract was up for renewal, or had very broad "cancellation at will" provisions, this might be a breach of contract.
However, the story is old, and by now CDNN probably has another, less nosy, provider. I'd still sue the old one though, since it has to have cost CDNN money and bother to get the new one, not to mention some lost sales perhaps.
BTW, CDNN is an Abilene Texas company.
A bunch of lint right now until I get paid tomorrow.
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