{"id":3603,"date":"2024-07-16T12:59:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T12:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=3603"},"modified":"2024-07-16T12:59:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T12:59:32","slug":"new-hampshire-joins-states-pushing-back-against-credit-card-codes-for-gun-related-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=3603","title":{"rendered":"New Hampshire Joins States Pushing Back Against Credit Card Codes for Gun-Related Purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/AP_19054801868218.jpg\" data-caption=\"New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu  (AP Photo\/Jose Luis Magana)\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"523\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/AP_19054801868218.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/AP_19054801868218.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/AP_19054801868218-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/AP_19054801868218-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/AP_19054801868218-700x526.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/AP_19054801868218-683x513.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"\" title=\"new hampshire veto 3 gun control laws\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (AP Photo\/Jose Luis Magana)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Friday, July 12th, Governor Chris Sununu (R-New Hampshire) signed HB 1186, \u201can act relative to firearm purchaser\u2019s privacy,\u201d into law. Thanks to the tireless work of leading New Hampshire gun rights advocate Rep.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gencourt.state.nh.us\/house\/members\/member.aspx?pid=8422\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">Jason Janvrin<\/a>\u00a0(R-Rockingham District 40)\u00a0and the strong support of NRA members, New Hampshire becomes the seventeenth state\u00a0to protect the privacy of law-abiding gun buyers by prohibiting financial institutions from collecting and misusing their personal information.\u00a0The NRA and its members\u00a0thank Governor Chris Sununu, Rep. Jason Janvrin, and pro-gun New Hampshire lawmakers for supporting Granite Staters\u2019 Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\n<p>In the Fall of 2022, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iso.org\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">International Organization for Standardization (ISO)<\/a>\u00a0approved a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iso.org\/standard\/79450.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">Merchant Category Code (MCC)<\/a>\u00a0for firearm retailers.\u00a0MCCs are used by payment processors (like Visa and Mastercard) and other financial services companies to categorize transactions. MCCs enable payment processors and banks to identify, monitor, and collect data on certain types of transactions. Before the ISO decision, firearm retailers fell under the MCC for sporting goods stores or miscellaneous retail.<\/p>\n<p>Collecting firearm retailer financial transaction data amounts to surveillance and registration of law-abiding gun owners. Those promoting this scheme are in favor of firearm and gun owner registrations. Therefore, it should be assumed that the goal of this program is to share all collected firearm retailer MCC data with government authorities and potentially private third parties that may include gun control organizations and anti-gun researchers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gencourt.state.nh.us\/bill_Status\/billinfo.aspx?id=1169\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">HB 1186<\/a>\u00a0prohibits the assigning of a specific merchant category code to the sale of firearms, ammunition, or firearm accessories, and provides a civil penalty for violations.\u00a0This critical legislation protects\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nraila.org\/articles\/20230717\/mcc-update-pro-gun-states-block-credit-card-gun-registry-scheme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">gun-owners privacy<\/a>\u00a0and ensures that bad actors cannot use credit and debit card transactions to create a gun-registry or block cardholders from making gun-related purchases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2014Courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nraila.org\/articles\/20240712\/new-hampshire-critical-pro-gun-privacy-bill-signed-into-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NRA-ILA<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/new-hampshire-joins-states-pushing-back-against-credit-card-codes-for-gun-related-purchases\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (AP Photo\/Jose Luis Magana) Next Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6 On Friday, July 12th, Governor Chris Sununu (R-New Hampshire) signed HB 1186, \u201can act relative to firearm purchaser\u2019s privacy,\u201d into law. Thanks to the tireless work of leading New Hampshire gun rights advocate Rep.\u00a0Jason Janvrin\u00a0(R-Rockingham District 40)\u00a0and the strong support of NRA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reviews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}