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| 10 states and counting: 2nd Amendment to the Financial Privacy Act |
| 2024-04-08 |
| [News On Line] Ten states — and counting — have passed a bill called the "2nd Amendment Financial Privacy Act," seeking to nullify a gun control oversight system in practice and impact. More about that good news soon. First some background. Would it surprise you to learn that this gun control program has its roots in the IRS? The same. We neither. "We neither"? In 2004, the IRS launched the use of something called a "Merchant Category Code," or an MCC, as a way to classify different types of businesses and identify the types of goods or services a business sells. Businesses that accept credit card payments are categorized with an MCC for their business type. It was, of course, sold as an improvement for better tax reporting, and is still touted, as CNBC put it, as a tool to "prevent things ranging from fraud to human trafficking." But never forget. When the government and its supporters tell you "it’s for your safety," it usually means "so we can control you." Soon, gun grabbers discovered that a special MCC could be created for a company that sold firearms, thus creating another de facto gun registry that the government could easily access. Some of the worst proposals call for using these codes to ban purchases. As NRA-ILA notes, the people promoting this are gun control advocates, so we shouldn’t be surprised at how they end up using it in the future: |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 Most gun sellers will accept money orders. The really good ones will accept cash. The really, really good ones will accept cash and not charge sales tax. Throw the money order receipt away. Problem solved. |
| Posted by: badanov 2024-04-08 12:29 |