Democratic lawmakers ask payment firms to renew work on gun code

[The Heretic]

Democratic lawmakers ask payment firms to renew work on gun code

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren and 48 other Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday urged top payments companies to resume work on implementing a sales code for gun merchants, according to letters seen by Reuters, citing how states have passed conflicting requirements on the issue. In March, the...

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[VinnieBoomBah]

Truthfully I am surprised the payment firms haven't already done this on their own so they could sell that data to advertisers

 

[Longwalkhome]

More tracking of the public.

 

[parallax]

if the government forces a switch to government controlled, "digital only" currency, they can shut down all gun transactions. Bonus* new cars will have a remote disable switch., if your virtue score gets too low.

 

[The Heretic]

Truthfully I am surprised the payment firms haven't already done this on their own so they could sell that data to advertisers

They did work on it, but there was pushback and they stopped.

 

[VinnieBoomBah]

They did work on it, but there was pushback and they stopped.

I thought they did that to potentially restrict firearms transactions, not to profit off the data from them

 

[The Heretic]

I thought they did that to potentially restrict firearms transactions, not to profit off the data from them

both

 

[Mark_Dorman]

I'm pretty sure most of the payment processing companies are scared of the backlash. If one of them holds out a huge majority of gun owners will switch to that payment firm.