Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) and Gov. Bill Lee (R-TN) signed Second Amendment privacy acts this week barring the use of credit card merchant codes to collect data on retail firearm purchasers.
Kemp signed HB 1018 on Monday and Lee signed SB 2223 on Tuesday. Their signatures bring the total number of states with Second Amendment privacy act protections to 14.
On February 13, 2024, Breitbart News reported that Visa, Mastercard, and American Express are implementing a special merchant code to track gun and gun-related purchases in California.
CBS News reported that the new merchant code will be used to comply with a “California law that will allow banks to potentially track suspicious gun purchases and report them to law enforcement.”
This comes after major credit cards adopted, then rescinded plans to use a new merchant code to track gun and gun-related purchases…
