A group of Republican attorneys general are pushing the major payment networks - Visa, Mastercard and American Express - to drop their plans to start tracking sales at gun stores.
FILE - American Express, Visa and Master card cards are on display in Richmond, Va., Thursday, July 1, 2021. A group of Republican attorneys general are pushing the major payment networks _ Visa, Mastercard and American Express _ to drop their plans to start tracking sales at gun stores, arguing the plans could infringe on consumer privacy and push legal gun sales out of the mainstream financial network.
In their letter, the AGs threaten to use all legal tools at their disposal to stop the payment networks from tracking gun sales. In recent weeks gun control advocates argued that separately categorizing gun store sales could potentially flag a surge of suspicious sales activity to public safety officials. They have used the example from the, where the shooter purchased $26,000 worth of ammunition ahead of the massacre.
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