Another Win: Credit Card Companies Backing Down on Tracking

[kshaw]

The article does not mention whether the Discovery card is pausing too or going alone:

Visa, Mastercard Suspend Plans To Track Gun Purchases After Blowback | The Daily Wire

www.dailywire.com

 

[Slackdaddy]

Repeatably they said they are "Pausing" the program to track firearm purchases.

"Pause" , not stop, not abandon, but "pause"

 

[slsc98]

Repeatably they said they are "Pausing" the program to track firearm purchases.

"Pause" , not stop, not abandon, but "pause"

Yes. ‘Til the Republicans are the majority in the House (and all its committees with the power to summons the company execs before those committees)

 

[kshaw]

Repeatably they said they are "Pausing" the program to track firearm purchases.

"Pause" , not stop, not abandon, but "pause"

I think the letters from the state Attorney Generals made them reconsider their positions and if AGs follow through by blocking the tracking of these purchases within their states, then it is a done deal. DeSantis has been remarkably silent on this issue.

 

[Jim12]

Don't believe it.

They're just regrouping for another go at it at the right time.

 

[Mr H]

Like all good socialist failures, "It just hasn't been done the right way"... yet...

 

[jrumann59]

Fvck Elizabeth Warren. If Visa and Mastercard were tracking Plan B and other forms of morning after contraception she would be screaming from the mountain tops of how unfair it is.

Credit card companies like @Visa, @Mastercard, and @AmericanExpress can and should do more to help stop mass shootings,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) tweeted on September 6, adding that she is “urging these companies to step up and help identify suspicious purchases to prevent gun violence.”