Gun makers face legal challenges as states investigate the conversion of pistols into machine guns. Illinois lawsuit targets Glock for producing easily convertible weapons. Legislation across states aims to protect financial privacy in gun purchases, restricting financial institutions from using firearm-specific codes. Kentucky passes law prohibiting firearm ownership registries, receiving support from Second Amendment advocates.
“Kentucky’s lawmakers are showing their citizens what leadership in action looks like by protecting their privacy and preventing woke Wall Street from colluding with government to target them for exercising their Second Amendment rights,” said Lawrence Keane, National Shooting…
Second Amendment advocates who lobby to ensure the government isn't targeting firearm owners or businesses selling guns hailed the legislation. https://t.co/NIut1hy8bJ
Kentucky is the latest state to pass a law prohibiting keeping or causing to be kept any list, record or registry of private firearm ownership. https://t.co/NIut1hy8bJ
Those states also leaped to pass legislation this year when GOP lawmakers in January showed that the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network spied on Americans’ gun purchases through the MCC. https://t.co/NIut1hy8bJ
Florida, Idaho, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Texas and West Virginia legislatures passed these bills last year when Amalgamated Bank sought the firearm-retailer-specific MCC. https://t.co/NIut1hy8bJ
Progressives want to surveil Americans who shop at gun stores. It’s a weaponization of the financial system for political purposes. This is a dangerous path they’re pursuing. Be warned, if MCC codes are used as political cudgels, they could be wielded by conservatives, too. https://t.co/aOWyeaBBHk
These laws prohibit financial institutions from requiring the use of a firearm code, called a Merchant Category Code, for gun and ammo purchases at retailers when using a credit card. https://t.co/NIut1hy8bJ
Democratic lawmakers are calling on the Biden administration’s regulators to pressure financial firms into fully implementing new merchant codes for gun purchases. More from Vault co-author @BrendanPedersen: https://t.co/WdhNTnJjWL
States aiming to protect consumers’ financial privacy when buying guns, ammo https://t.co/YuxHq4zutr https://t.co/yKiXnFKu5Z
States are lining up to pass legislation that prevents the government from invading financial privacy when consumers purchase firearms and ammunition from retailers. https://t.co/6VsOzKhChD
States aiming to protect consumers' financial privacy when buying guns, ammo https://t.co/ZxoFNSDKIf
Gunmakers' relentless efforts across the US have eliminated most lawsuits brought by cities against the industry two decades ago. A bill signed into law this month by IN Gov. Eric Holcomb may be the final blow to the last one standing. https://t.co/tXRmiNvXrF
The lawsuit alleges that Glock executives knowingly make a product that can be easily converted into an illegal, full-auto weapon. It is the first suit of its kind under a new Illinois law to hold gun makers accountable. https://t.co/tAAOG541eI
For 25 years, gunmakers have repeatedly tried to end one city’s lawsuit over illegal gun sales. Meanwhile, illicit purchases of firearms continued at an unrelenting and hazardous pace. https://t.co/yNk9NQKhxR
12 states and Washington, D.C., have sent a letter to gun maker Glock, asking the company to preserve documents about its pistols and their ability to be converted into machine guns as the states investigate whether the sale of the guns violates their laws https://t.co/ae7DFomz4m https://t.co/jE6Up2iwlT