Published 1 year ago

Visa, Mastercard pause work on new payments code for firearms sellers

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Top payment networks Visa Inc (V.N) and Mastercard Inc (MA.N) said on Thursday they have paused work on implementing a new sales code for gun merchants, citing Republican pushback in various U.S. states on concerns about improper tracking of consumer behavior.

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Visa, Mastercard pause work on new payments code for firearms sellers

1 year ago·United Kingdom

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Associated Press News

Visa, Mastercard pause decision to track gun shop purchases

Visa and Mastercard paused their decision to start categorizing purchases at gun shops, a significant win for conservative groups and Second Amendment advocates who felt that tracking gun shop purchases

1 year ago·United States

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Visa, Mastercard pause decision to track gun shop purchases

1 year ago·United States

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CNN

Under legal threat from GOP lawmakers, Mastercard and Visa pause plan to track gun sales

Visa, Mastercard and Discover announced they will pause a plan to implement a new merchant category code for the nation's gun retailers after political pressure from Republicans.

1 year ago·Atlanta, United States

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Visa, Mastercard pause decision to track gun shop purchases

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Visa and Mastercard paused their decision to start categorizing purchases at gun shops, a significant win for conservative groups and Second Amendment advocates who felt that tracking gun shop purchases would inadvertently discriminate against legal firearms purchases. The decision is, at the same time, also a defeat for gun control groups. There had been hope that categorizing credit and debit car…

1 year ago·Colorado Springs, United States

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