Exercising the Right
Tennessee Seeks to Protect Gun Rights
The Tennessee Star posted on January 16 about two state legislators who are taking action to prevent anti-gun financial institutions from intruding on the Second Amendment.
This column previously reported about how companies such as American Express, Mastercard, and Visa announced plans to introduce a new merchant category code for the express purpose of tracking the purchases of firearms and ammunition.
Pro-Second Amendment advocacy groups were outraged and warned that the data would be used for state surveillance of perfectly legal activity. The credit card companies ended up abandoning their plan due to the backlash and the actions by multiple state legislatures to pass laws banning such tracking activity. Now Tennessee will be joining Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas, Florida, West Virginia, Idaho, North Dakota, and Montana with legislation of their own. State Representative Todd Warner and State Senator Joey Hensley have introduced legislation in their respective chambers to “prohibit banks, credit card companies and other financial institutions from tracking purchases of firearms.” The proposed legislation specifically prohibits “an unfair or deceptive trade practice … [of any] financial institution to require a firearms retailer to use firearms-specific transaction codes.”
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