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Two dozen Republican attorneys general have sent a letter to Visa, Mastercard, and American Express demanding the credit card companies abandon plans to track gun sales in the United States through firearm-specific transaction codes.

Credit card companies face pressure from gun control groups and lawmakers sympathetic to their cause to adopt new merchant category codes (MCC) for firearms, which now fall into the โ€œgeneral merchandiseโ€ category.

This, in turn, was prompted by a decision on the part of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), a Switzerland-based group that sets and monitors quality standards for various industries, to establish firearm-specific codes.

Reacting to the ISO decision, Visa said in a statement that it would โ€œproceed with next steps, while ensuring we protect all legal commerce on the Visa network in accordance with our long-standing rules.โ€

The National Rifle Association (NRA) criticized the shift, calling it an erosion of Second Amendment rights.

โ€œThe decision to create a firearm-specific code is nothing more than a capitulation to anti-gun politicians and activists bent on eroding the rights of law-abiding Americans, one transaction at a time,โ€ an NRA spokesperson said.

More pushback against the adoption of firearm-specific codes came in the form of a Sept. 20 letter penned by 24 Republican attorneys general.

In the letter, the attorneys general argued that the new codes wonโ€™t protect public safety, unfairly single out law-abiding merchants and customers, and are prone to being misused.

โ€œFirst, efforts to track and monitor sales at gun stores would only result in vague and misleading information. This categorization would not recognize the difference, for example, between the purchase of a gun safe and a firearm,โ€ they wrote.

The codes also wouldnโ€™t capture gun sales at department stores and so would result in โ€œarbitrarily disparate treatmentโ€ targeting sellers and buyers at gun stores.

โ€œMore importantly, purposefully tracking this information can only result in its misuse, either unintentional or deliberate,โ€ the attorneys general wrote.

Byย Tom Ozimek

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