A group of Senate Republicans sent a letter to the CEOs of Visa, Mastercard and American Express demanding they reverse the decision to track gun store sales.
major credit card companiesSen. Roger Marshall, Kansas, is leading a group of 12 GOP senators in demanding that the CEOs of Visa, Mastercard and American Express scrap plans to track gun store sales. The companies recently announced they would apply the International Organization for Standardization’s new merchant category code to gun shop sales. Transactions at firearm stores were previously labeled as "general merchandise.
Sen. Roger Marshall, Kansas, is leading a group of 12 GOP senators in demanding that the CEOs of Visa, Mastercard and American Express scrap plans to track gun store sales. According to the letter, the ISO is a voluntary organization that cannot unilaterally prescribe the way in which business is carried out.
The credit card companies recently announced they would apply the International Organization for Standardization’s new merchant code to gun shop sales. Transactions at firearm stores were previously labeled as"general merchandise."but to intercede on behalf of law-abiding American gun owners if their companies insist on tracking gun shop sales.
New York City officials had put pressure on the ISO and banks to adopt the new code on gun shop sales.
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