H3930 prohibits government entities from knowingly keeping registries or records of privately owned firearms or their owners (outside of criminal investigations). It also bans payment card networks and other financial processors from using or encouraging merchant category codes (MCCs) that identify firearm or ammunition retailers in order to track those transactions.
The South Carolina State House of Representatives passed H3930 on April 9, 2025 by a vote of 85 to 10. We have assigned pluses to the ayes because this bill blocks unconstitutional efforts to track lawful firearm purchases through credit-card data. The ISO’s adoption of a merchant category code for gun and ammunition retailers—backed by globalist entities and embraced by federal agencies—paves the way for mass surveillance and a de facto national gun registry. Such tracking violates the First, Second, and Fourth Amendments; chills lawful purchases; and opens the door to illegal searches and eventual confiscation.
