credit card gun purchases

Credit Card Companies ‘Pause’ Implementation of New Gun Purchase Tracking Code

The pushback against Amalgamated Bank CEO Priscilla Sims Brown’s plan began almost as soon as she started to seriously push for a new merchant category code for gun retailer transactions. And when she finally managed…

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Poll in Gun Control-Friendly Washington, D.C. Shows Americans Don’t Want Banks Monitoring Their Gun Purchases

The recent news about major credit card companies tracking purchases at firearm retailers is ruffling feathers. That is, with everyone except the nation’s largest gun control groups and supporters. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) announced late…


NY Legislators Want to Force Credit Card Companies to Track and Report Gun Purchases

Credit card companies track spending based on the type of retailer where a card is used — though they do not track the individual items that are purchased. Each purchase is tagged with what’s called…