{"id":1845647,"date":"2023-02-13T17:35:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T22:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1845647"},"modified":"2023-02-13T17:35:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T22:35:40","slug":"west-virginia-legislature-takes-step-to-thwart-tracking-of-gun-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/west-virginia-legislature-takes-step-to-thwart-tracking-of-gun-purchases\/","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia Legislature Takes Step to Thwart Tracking of Gun Purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwest-virginia-legislature-takes-step-to-thwart-tracking-of-gun-purchases%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1845647&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<\/p>\n<p>Amalgamated Bank\u2019s campaign to impose new credit card code for gun purchases has ignited political firestorm    Getty Images    <\/p>\n<p>Last week, West Virginia&#8217;s legislature passed a bill to block credit card companies using a special category for tracking gun purchases. This is the first step in what will likely become a long political battle between the left-leaning bank that initiated the initiative and Republican lawmakers across America.<\/p>\n<p>The move by the West Virginia state legislature follows expressions of concern at the state and federal level over the creation \u2013 at the behest of Amalgamated bank, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amalgamatedbank.com\/political-organizations\">Left-wing financial institution<\/a> that services Democratic campaigns across the country \u2013 of a special designation, known as a merchant category code, for purchases made at gun stores.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s another indication that Amalgamated has dragged the credit card industry into what could be a protracted political battle: The bill\u2019s passage follows on the heels of a letter from 24 Republican attorneys general <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/09\/21\/gop-attorneys-general-ask-credit-card-companies-to-drop-gun-store-code-.html\">sent a letter<\/a> Credit card companies were warned in September by the FBI to not track gun sales.<\/p>\n<p>Gun purchases used to be classified as sporting items, but were Amalgamated last yea <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amalgamatedbank.com\/news\/amalgamated-bank-petition-new-code-gun-and-ammunition-stores-has-been-approved-international\">A successful campaign was led by me<\/a> To create the new category alongside existing goods categories like transportation and groceries.<\/p>\n<p>It did this despite opposition from credit card giants Visa and American Express. They are now required by law to use the new code because merchant codes are universally applicable across all companies and around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Although the new code provides credit card companies with information about how much was spent in a store, it does not give payment companies any insight into individual purchases. This limitation contradicts the claims of progressive advocates\u2014and some conservative critics\u2014that credit card companies now have the ability to track individual firearm purchases.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Categorizing the constitutionally protected right to purchase firearms unfairly singles out law-abiding merchants and consumers alike,&#8221; The letter was sent by the 24 GOP attorneys general. &#8220;Social policy should be debated and determined within our political institutions. Americans are tired of seeing corporate leverage used to advance political goals that cannot muster basic democratic support.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West Virginia legislature earlier this month passed a bill that would throw up a roadblock to prevent credit card companies from using a special category to track gun purchases, the first sally in what is likely to become a protracted political battle between the left-wing bank that spearheaded the initiative and Republican lawmakers across the country.<br \/>\nThe post West Virginia Legislature Takes Step to Thwart Tracking of Gun Purchases appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":1845650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[7012,4199,8795,5101,4259,18547,10103,5468,3841],"class_list":["post-1845647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-gun","tag-legislature","tag-purchases","tag-step","tag-takes","tag-thwart","tag-tracking","tag-virginia","tag-west"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1845647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1845650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}