SB58 forbids financial institutions from using a merchant category code to identify firearms retailers, prevents government entities from keeping any list of privately owned firearms or firearms owners, and bars firearm liability insurance requirements or fees.

The Senate passed SB58 on December 18, 2024, by a vote of 25 to 6. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because this bill prohibits the unlawful use of credit card payment information to track firearms purchases as well as “no-fault” firearms liability insurance mandates. 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. Moreover, no person should have to pay a government-imposed fee for the possession of a firearm. 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.