S8479 requires financial institutions to use merchant category codes to identify firearm retailers.
The Senate passed S8479 on June 4, 2024, by a vote of 45 to 16. We have assigned pluses to the nays because this bill requires the unlawful use of credit card payment information to track firearm purchases. It follows 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—that 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 interpose between and nullify the actions of private or public entities that frustrate, if not blatantly violate, the Second and Fourth Amendment-protected rights of the American people.