Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) warns that credit card companies have positioned themselves to track gun purchases and is asking the big three–Visa, Mastercard, and American Express–why they are inserting themselves into Second Amendment issues.
, New York Democrat lawmakers, and Gabby Giffords’ gun control group, Giffords, had all urged Visa to make this move.
Mastercard and American Express are redoing their merchant categorization for gun sales too, and Mastercard went so far as to praise Congress for the gun control laws that legislators passed earlier this year.a statement from Mastercard in which the credit card company said: “We understand and appreciate the significant policy imperative in reducing gun violence and see the recent bipartisan action in Congress as a positive step.
A man looks at cases of firearms in the halls of the Indianapolis Convention Center on Thursday, April 25, 2019, where the National Rifle Association will be holding its 148th annual meetings. In a letter to Visa, Mastercard, and American Express dated September 13 Hawley wrote, “I write to express serious concern with your decision to separately categorize gun-related purchases from other retail transactions made with your payment cards that so firearm purchases can be more easily tracked.”
He noted, “This new system is ripe for abuse and brings to mind similar policies of Big Tech companies and payment processors that have targeted law-abiding Americans for engaging in constitutionally protected activities. I urge to you to immediately reverse course.
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