Visa and Mastercard have halted their plans to use a new merchant code to track gun purchases.
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 among its peers to publicly give a date for moving ahead with the initiative, which is aimed at helping authorities probe gun-related crimes.”
The code for tracking gun purchases was approved by the International Organization for Standardization in September 2022, and an ISO representative indicated, “The decision to use the new merchant category code is eventually left up to the users in the industry.” AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of
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