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Discover Financial Services will allow tracking of purchases made at gun retailers starting in April, according to Reuters' exclusive report.
"First, Discover tracks your gun purchases. Then, Democrats take your guns," Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) tweeted Friday.
\u201cFirst, Discover tracks your gun purchases. Then, Democrats take your guns. https://t.co/vQI3VjIVQz\u201d— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Rep. Jim Jordan) 1677885170
"They are coming for your guns little by little," Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) said in a tweet earlier this week.
\u201cDiscover Card will begin tracking firearm purchases starting next month. \n\nThere are more than 50 million Discover cards in use right now. \n\nThey are coming for your guns little by little.\u201d— Congressman Troy E. Nehls (@Congressman Troy E. Nehls) 1677799336
"This is a massive problem Congress needs to address immediately!" Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) tweeted Thursday, using all-caps to emphasize "massive" and "immediately."
\u201cBeginning in April, Discover will begin to track gun purchases made with their cards.\n\nThis is a MASSIVE problem Congress needs to address, IMMEDIATELY!\u201d— Lauren Boebert (@Lauren Boebert) 1677795700
\u201c@laurenboebert Close your accounts y\u2019all.\u201d— Lauren Boebert (@Lauren Boebert) 1677795700
The coming change follows an announcement by the International Organization for Standardization. The ISO reportedly decides on "classification of merchant categories used by payment cards." It approved launching a code specific to gun retailers last September.
The code, dubbed "5723 - Gun and ammunition shops," will not show specific purchases, according to Reuters.
"While the merchant code doesn't yet enable the kind of tracking of individual gun purchases many owners are concerned about, that concern doesn't come from nowhere, The Reload founder Stephen Gutowski told TheBlaze on Saturday.
"The whole idea of creating a specific code for gun retailers came from gun-control activists hoping to track and prevent gun purchases they deem suspicious," Gutowski added.
"Discover, Visa, and Master Card don't seem to be able to tell anything beyond that you spent some amount of money at a store that sells guns at this point. But that could change down the road."
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