We Will Not Be Tracked. We Will Not Be Tagged. We Will Not Be Disarmed.
The state of South Dakota has fired a direct and deliberate shot across the bow of the surveillance state. With the stroke of a pen and the strength of overwhelming legislative support, Senate Bill 81 became law in February. With its passage, South Dakota drew a bold and righteous line in the sand: You will not use the financial system to spy on law-abiding gun owners — not here, not now, not ever.
SB81 is more than a bill — it’s a battle flag. It bans banks, credit-card companies, and financial institutions operating in South Dakota from using so-called merchant category codes to flag or track purchases of firearms and ammunition. These codes, recently introduced by international financial bodies, are the digital tools of a modern-day registry — a silent surveillance apparatus that quietly catalogs every transaction at your local gun store. And South Dakota has smashed that apparatus to pieces.
No more backdoor registries, no more Orwellian data harvesting, and no more treating free Americans as criminals for daring to exercise their God-given, unalienable, and constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms.
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