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Posted By: Imright, 3/9/2023 7:22:22 PM

Visa and Mastercard have halted their plans to use a new merchant code to track gun purchases. WAFB reported that Visa and Mastercard’s pivot is “a significant win for conservative groups and Second Amendment advocates who felt that tracking gun shop purchases would inadvertently discriminate against legal firearm purchases.”West Virginia Treasurer Riley Moore reacted to the news by tweeting: (Tweet) Discover card plans to begin tracking gun and ammunition purchases in April, Breitbart News reported March 2. Reuters pointed out that Discover Financial Services was ahead of Visa and Mastercard in February 2023, noting that Discover would “allow its network to track purchases at gun retailers come April, making it the first

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Reply 1 - Posted by: bogeegolf 3/9/2023 7:33:15 PM (No. 1421426)
Great! I got rid of my Discover card after 32 years. I have to rely on my wife’s Visa card now. Of course I told Discover why I was leaving.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: JHHolliday 3/9/2023 7:35:12 PM (No. 1421429)
The final wet dream of the left. If they can find out who has the guns, the next step is confiscation of all legally owned firearms. When I first read that the Shylocks in the usurious credit card business were considering this, I wrote Visa and told them where they could stick their card. It’s stiff plastic and would probably be painful. The blowback must have caused them to reconsider. Whatever we do, fight for your life against digital currency.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: WV.Hillbilly 3/9/2023 7:51:28 PM (No. 1421446)
For now. If I buy a gun, I use cash.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: RWPollock 3/9/2023 7:55:17 PM (No. 1421448)
I guess the idiots finally realized how many Americans have guns and support gun rights. Is it not like 73-75% of Americans support gun rights?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: chumley 3/9/2023 7:58:37 PM (No. 1421451)
I'm with #3. Cash only from now on. And even better if its a private purchase from a stranger. There was a time when I would have a cop friend run the serial number to make sure it wasn't hot, and I would insist on a signed bill of sale. That was in the 80's, before the big bans. Now I dont ask for any of those things. Best if there is no paper trail at all.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Lawsy0 3/9/2023 8:16:04 PM (No. 1421459)
So cute, isn't it. Someone waved a weapon at them and they changed their minds. Precious.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: czechlist 3/9/2023 8:59:58 PM (No. 1421472)
does anyone really believe the FBI destroys the records of background checks as required by law?
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Mizz Fixxit 3/9/2023 10:13:26 PM (No. 1421508)
I am fearful of the federal government and don’t trust credit card companies. For at least 30 years, I have used cash only for purchases of gun related products. Poster 7, I don’t believe the FBI. At best, the FBI, aka gestapo, is compiling a back door gun registry with records the bureau confiscates from defunct gun shops.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: mean Gene 3/9/2023 11:06:24 PM (No. 1421536)
Next, doctors. What business is it of theirs if I have guns in my home or not?
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Heraclitus 3/9/2023 11:48:30 PM (No. 1421556)
Good. And also good to know Discover hasn't discovered the sacred value of our rights and freedoms. They'll probable come around once the bottom dollar dwindles.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Muguy 3/10/2023 12:26:27 AM (No. 1421565)
That’s what they say NOW. Then WE FIND OUT later that they just say that to get out of the news cycle….
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Reply 12 - Posted by: hoosierblue 3/10/2023 7:23:07 AM (No. 1421659)
It probably would have failed anyway as most gun dealers added a 3% fee to guns that were bought with credit cards and most buyers paid cash. Another reason to fight against the new digital currency the feds are instituting, that would do away with cash.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Old Army Vet 3/10/2023 8:15:05 AM (No. 1421696)
I don't trust them, I don't believe them and I certainly think that the dimocRATS in the swamp are behind this.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Faithfully 3/10/2023 6:58:59 PM (No. 1422149)
Once paper money is abolished, the government will be able push a button and "presto" citizens will not have the freedom to purchase anything that Big Brother considers unnecessary. Another flick of the switch will take away access to any of your ether money. Brave new world.
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