Titled the “Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act,” the bills would prohibit a financial institution operating in Alabama from “requiring merchants to use a merchant category code (MCC) to distinguish a firearms retailer from a general merchandise retailer or a sporting goods retailer during a firearms transaction amounting to financial surveillance and from disclosing financial information regarding the transaction.”
Titled the “Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act,” the new law prohibits a credit card processor operating in Wyoming from requiring the usage of or assigning a firearm or ammunition merchant category code “to any merchant located in Wyoming that is a seller of firearms or ammunition separately from general merchandise.”
the Utah Senate gave final approval to a bill that would prohibit financial institutions operating in the state from using a credit card merchant code that would enable the tracking of firearm and ammunition purchases.
the Utah House passed a bill that would prohibit financial institutions operating in the state from using a credit card merchant code that would enable the tracking of firearm and ammunition purchases.
A Wyoming bill would prohibit a financial institution operating in the state from requiring the use of a firearms code that distinguishes firearms businesses from other retail or sporting goods businesses.