SB301 establishes the "Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act" to protect the financial privacy of firearms and ammunition retailers. The law prohibits government entities from maintaining registries of privately owned firearms or their owners, except during active criminal investigations or as otherwise required by law. It also restricts financial institutions and payment card networks from assigning merchant category codes that specifically identify firearm retailers or from declining transactions based solely on such codes. The Attorney General is authorized to investigate alleged violations and seek injunctions if necessary.
The Louisiana State Senate passed SB301 on May 28, 2024 by a vote of 27 to 9. We have assigned pluses to the ayes because this bill prevents the unlawful use of credit card payment information to track firearms purchases. Recent adoption of a new merchant category code for "gun and ammunition shops" by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)-a globalist collaborative linked to the United Nations-aids unconstitutional efforts by the federal government to conduct mass surveillance, which, in part, is intended to create a national gun-owner database and confiscate firearms from law-abiding citizens. States should nullify any such actions taken by private or public entities, that frustrate, if not blatantly violate, the Second and Fourth Amendment rights of the American people.
United States Constitution
Second Amendment
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
United States Constitution
Fourth Amendment
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
United States Constitution
Article VI
All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
