{"id":276,"date":"2022-09-25T14:40:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T14:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/?p=276"},"modified":"2022-09-25T14:40:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T14:40:57","slug":"goa-nra-saf-credit-card-companies-shift-sets-stage-for-gun-sale-data-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"GOA, NRA, SAF: Credit Card Companies\u2019 Shift Sets Stage for Gun Sale Data Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Gun Owners of America (GOA), the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), and the National Rifle Association (NRA) are warning that the credit card companies\u2019 capitulation to Democrat pressure to recategorize gun purchases sets the state for gun sale data collection.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Washington Times<\/em>\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/sep\/12\/gun-rights-backers-call-credit-card-plan-step-towa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">quoted<\/a> GOA senior VP Erich Pratt suggesting the recategorization of gun sales is \u201cthe latest attempt by anti-gun lunatic activists to pressure corporations into collecting their own business partners\u2019 data in a way that threatens their privacy, as well as the privacy of the millions of customers who rely on these services for electronic transactions each year.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/09\/11\/visa-caves-will-recategorize-gun-purchases-so-democrats-can-flag-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that Visa issued an announcement on September 10, 2022, that it would be recategorizing the way purchases from gun stores are labeled.<\/p>\n<p>This announcement came after weeks of pressure from\u00a0Gabby Giffords, her gun control\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GiffordsCourage\/status\/1563961112126754820\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">group<\/a>,\u00a0Democrat lawmakers in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/08\/30\/new-york-lawmakers-urge-visa-mastercard-to-flag-gun-sales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York<\/a>, and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) \u2014 all claiming that labeling gun purchases under categories such as sporting goods or general merchandise was not sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul went so far as to contend that major credit card companies need to take action and \u201cdo their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/09\/07\/kathy-hochul-urges-visa-american-express-do-their-part-gun-control\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">part<\/a>\u201d for gun control&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/09\/12\/goa-nra-saf-credit-card-companies-shift-sets-stage-gun-sale-data-collection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breittbart<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunowners.org\/goa-nra-saf-credit-card-companies-shift-sets-stage-for-gun-sale-data-collection\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gun Owners of America (GOA), the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), and the National Rifle Association (NRA) are warning that the credit card companies\u2019 capitulation to Democrat pressure to recategorize gun purchases sets the state for gun sale data collection. The\u00a0Washington Times\u00a0quoted GOA senior VP Erich Pratt suggesting the recategorization of gun sales is \u201cthe latest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-2a-rights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americangunpeople.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}