{"id":2536,"date":"2026-06-28T18:38:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T18:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2026-06-28T18:38:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T18:38:02","slug":"heres-what-2a-orgs-are-saying-about-gop-led-gun-purchasing-privacy-bill-making-its-way-through-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=2536","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s What 2A Orgs Are Saying About GOP-Led Gun-Purchasing Privacy Bill Making Its Way Through Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_1 --> <\/p>\n<p>Second Amendment organizations praised Republican lawmakers\u2019 legislation intended to prevent credit card companies, banks and other payment processors from tracking lawful gun purchases.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=2534\">Bill Maher Tells JD Vance His \u2018Vote Is In Play\u2019 As Democratic Party Continues To Elect Socialists<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cProtecting Privacy in Purchases Act\u201d would ban payment card networks from assigning specific codes to track lawful gun transactions or identify firearm retailers as being engaged in the business of selling firearms.\u00a0Firearm retailers would not be required to use a separate merchant category code (MCC), a multi-digit code used to classify merchants into a specific category based on the type of business, trade or services supplied.<\/p>\n<p>If passed, the attorney general would be required to submit an annual report to Congress that outlines all the investigations related to the issue and to provide any analysis relating to the law\u2019s efficacy.<\/p>\n<p>Gun rights organizations celebrated the bill\u2019s role in protecting Americans\u2019 Second Amendment rights. The National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) Executive Director John Commerford said payment card networks attempted to \u201csurveil and stigmatize\u201d Americans\u2019 Second Amendment rights. <strong>(RELATED: 2A Orgs Pop Champagne Corks Over Unanimous Supreme Court Ruling Paring Back Gun Law)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe National Rifle Association has led the fight across the country to protect the privacy of law-abiding firearm owners,\u201d Commerford told the Daily Caller News Foundation. \u201cH.R. 1181, the Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act, prohibits payment card networks and financial institutions from using special merchant category codes that single out firearms retailers, blocking the creation of a backdoor national registry of gun owners. The push for firearm-specific merchant category codes was a blatant attempt to surveil and stigmatize constitutionally protected activity by weaponizing the financial system against Second Amendment rights. The NRA urges every lawmaker who supports constitutional rights to support this critical bill and ensure its swift passage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_2 --> <\/p>\n<p>Gun Owners of America deputy director of Federal Affairs Ben Huyn Sanderson told the DCNF that entities like Bank of America turned over financial information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) during former President Joe Biden\u2019s administration with an emphasis on gun purchases.<\/p>\n<p>Bank of America told the DCNF they \u201cfollowed all applicable legal obligations and regulatory requirements\u201d in their interactions with law enforcement and the Treasury Department.<\/p>\n<p>A National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) spokesperson told the DCNF the legislation was \u201ccritical\u201d in preventing blue states from interfering in the lawful purchases of firearms.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_3 --> <\/p>\n<p><i>\u201c<\/i>This bill is an important step toward stopping the financial surveillance of peaceable gun owners. The feds have no business building a financial surveillance system to track what law-abiding Americans buy, especially when those purchases involve the exercise of a constitutional right,\u201d NAGR Director of Communications Director Taylor Rhodes said. \u201cOur position is simple: buying a firearm, ammunition, or gun-related product from any business should not turn an average citizen into a target for banks, credit card companies, activist bureaucrats, or anti-gun politicians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat policy is critical because blue states around the nation have made clear they are willing to use the banking system to monitor and intimidate gun owners and have even gone as far as shutting down banking for pro-gun businesses,\u201d Rhodes continued.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=2533\">GRAPHIC: North African Migrant Drenched In Blood After Bashing Neighbor\u2019s Head In With Hammer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2018, then-Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was sued by the NRA after his administration used the threat of investigations to coerce banks and other financial services companies into ending business relationships with the gun-rights group.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Reps. Riley Moore of West Virginia, Andy Barr of Kentucky and Richard Hudson of North Carolina introduced the legislation in the House in February 2025. Republican Tennessee Sen. Bill Hagerty introduced it in the Senate. The bill advanced through the House Financial Services Committee in December 2025 and the House Rules Committee approved a closed rule for floor consideration in an 8-4 party-line vote, placing it on the House floor calendar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve spent the better part of my short career in public service fighting financial institutions that push a political agenda. Let me be clear: any attempt to collect data on Americans simply exercising their God-given rights is wrong, and I won\u2019t stand for it,\u201d Moore said. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen how the Biden Administration pressured financial institutions to hand over data on their customers, and the possibility of a private database of gun owners falling into the hands of a future anti-gun administration is unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans questioned the implementation of the International Organization for Standardization\u2019s MCC in September 2022 to make it easier to track gun purchases, according to a February 2025 press release by Hudson\u2019s office. Visa, Mastercard and American Express paused the implementation of the code in March 2023 over legal uncertainties and confusion on how the codes would function. The pause was never lifted.<\/p>\n<p>Visa, Mastercard and American Express did not respond to the DCNF\u2019s requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Barack Obama\u2019s administration launched \u201cOperation Chokepoint,\u201d which used the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to pressure banks into denying financial services to companies in the firearms industry. While the first Trump administration halted the practice, some financial institutions, such as Citigroup, continued to pressure companies in the firearms industries to adopt certain practices or face account closure for years afterward.<\/p>\n<p>Citigroup announced in June 2025 it would end its practice of debanking firearms retailers who sold guns to young adults ages 18 to 20, citing \u201cregulatory developments, recent executive orders and federal legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a May 2014 , the House Oversight Committee noted that firearms sales were among the legal industries targeted by \u201cOperation Choke Point,\u201d which used the threat of investigations under Section 951 of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 to force financial institutions to close the accounts by entities like coin dealers, firearms dealers and short-term lending establishments.<\/p>\n<p>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter\u2019s byline and their DCNF affiliation. For any questions about our guidelines or partnering with us, please contact\u00a0licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=2531\">Iran Claims It Attacked US Military, Risking Ceasefire<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is advancing legislation to prevent credit card companies and banks from the targeted tracking or flagging of lawful gun purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2731,510,247,740,2732,26],"class_list":["post-2536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-bill-hagerty","tag-congress","tag-guns","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-riley-moore","tag-second-amendment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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