AMERICANALMANAC (Alex Tanzer) - House passes bill to ban credit card companies from tracking gun purchases — just five Democrats crossed the aisle
The House approved legislation barring payment networks from tagging lawful firearm purchases with a special tracking code, and only five Democrats voted yes out of more than 200 in the minority caucus. The Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act, H.R. 1181, cleared the chamber on a 221, 201 vote, capping a years-long fight over whether credit […] The post House passes bill to ban credit card companies from tracking gun purchases — just five Democrats crossed the aisle appeared first on American Almanac .
The House approved legislation barring payment networks from tagging lawful firearm purchases with a special tracking code, and only five Democrats voted yes out of more than 200 in the minority caucus. The Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act, H.R. 1181, cleared the chamber on a 221, 201 vote, capping a years-long fight over whether credit card companies should sort gun-store transactions into their own merchant category code, a classification gun-rights groups say amounts to a backdoor registry of legal buyers. Rep. Riley Moore, the West Virginia Republican who sponsored the bill, framed the vote as a direct rebuke of financial-industry efforts to single out Second Amendment activity for surveillance. Five Democrats broke ranks to…Open