Opinion
The National Shooting Sports Foundation, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, applauds New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu for signing H.B. 1186, the Firearm Purchaser’s Privacy Act, into law last week. This NSSF-supported law protects the privacy and sensitive financial information of people purchasing firearms and ammunition in The Granite State. With New Hampshire, there are now 17 states with laws that protect the Second Amendment financial privacy of their citizens.
The law prohibits financial institutions from requiring the use of a firearm code, also known as a Merchant Category Code (MCC), from being assigned to firearm and ammunition purchases at retail when using a credit card. Additionally, the law gives enforcement authority to the state attorney general for any business entity found in violation of the law.
“Governor Chris Sununu’s signing of the Firearm Purchaser’s Privacy Act is a necessary tool to protect the Second Amendment and privacy rights of New Hampshire citizens from unlawful intrusion on their private purchases when purchasing firearms and ammunition with a payment card,” said Jake McGuigan, NSSF’s Government Relations – State Affairs Managing Director. “Law-abiding gun purchasers in the ‘Live Free or Die’ state won’t need to worry that ‘woke’ Wall Street banks, credit card companies and payment processors will collude with government entities to spy on their private finances for exercising their rights. No American should fear being placed on a government watchlist simply for exercising their Constitutionally-protected rights to keep and bear arms.”
NSSF worked closely with New Hampshire legislators to protect private and legal firearm and ammunition purchases from political exploitation. The Firearm Purchaser’s Privacy Act is designed to protect the privacy of lawful and private firearm and ammunition purchases from being abused for political purposes by corporate financial service providers and unlawful government search and seizure of legal and private financial transactions.
The U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) admitted to U.S. Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) in a letter that it violated the Fourth Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens that protect against illegal search and seizure when it collected the credit card purchase history from banks and credit card companies of individuals who purchased firearms and ammunition in the days surrounding Jan. 6, 2020. Treasury’s FinCEN had no probable cause, and sought the information without a warrant, to place these law-abiding citizens on a government watchlist only because they exercised their Second Amendment rights to lawfully purchase firearms and ammunition.
The idea of a firearm-retailer specific MCC was borne from antigun New York Times’ columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin and Amalgamated Bank, which has been called “The Left’s Private Banker” and bankrolls the Democratic National Committee and several antigun politicians. Amalgamated Bank lobbied the Swiss-based International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for the code’s creation. NSSF has called on Congress to investigate Amalgamated Bank’s role in manipulating the ISO standard setting process for political purposes.
Sorkin admitted creating a firearm-retailer specific MCC would be a first step to creating a national firearm registry, which is forbidden by federal law.
New Hampshire joins a growing list of states that are standing against the invasion of financial privacy when exercising Second Amendment rights, including Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Iowa, Kentucky, Wyoming, Indiana, Utah, Florida, Idaho, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Texas and West Virginia. These states passed laws protecting citizens’ Second Amendment privacy. Other states are considering similar legislation. U.S. Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) introduced S. 4075, the NSSF-supported Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act in the Senate. U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) introduced H.R. 7450, with the same title in the U.S. House of Representatives. Three states – California, Colorado and New York– have passed legislation requiring payment card processors to report purchases by a firearm retailer-specific MCC.
About The National Shooting Sports Foundation
NSSF is the trade association for the firearm industry. Its mission is to promote, protect and preserve hunting and shooting sports. Formed in 1961, NSSF has a membership of thousands of manufacturers, distributors, firearm retailers, shooting ranges, sportsmen’s organizations, and publishers nationwide. For more information, visit nssf.org
Unfortunately, Gov Sununu is retiring, and we’ll be very lucky if we get another Republican the way recent elections have gone. He has been pretty good on 2nd amendment issues for us.
The passage of this law has likely saved an unknown number of Law-abiding New Hampshire Citizens from being murdered by the ATF…shot down dead in their own homes while attempting to get some sleep for the next day’s work.
Use cash when purchasing gun related items when possible.
this should be applied federally.
To bad we have a second amendment that says our rights shall not be infringed, but, if you want to buy a gun in another state, you can buy it but they cannot give it to you and you have to have it sent to an FFL in your state so even though your credit card may not show you bought a gun in NH, your state still has record of the sale. I wonder if that rule applies to people that buy a gun in NH that have out of state credit cards. How could you control that other… Read more »
Music, which CC do you have? I might have to change mine
Oregoneistan, Utah, Nevada.
Good morning. I would like too but I don’t know if I will ever go down there. Oregoneistan is easy because I live here, Utah is easy because I have an Oregone Permit but in Nevada you have to stay there for a week in order to do the complete course. I have been bitching about Oregoneistan for so long, I find I have gotten older and physically I am in much worse shape along with the wife and could not handle shoveling snow and the extreme heat vs cold differences. I think I am stuck here on the coast… Read more »
So true………I can remember putting down cash to buy 5 acres, a house and a barn on the Pend Oreille river in Idaho. It was gonna cost $165,00 and with my property here in Washington State sold, I could have bought it cash.
My ex nixed it cuz she didn’t want to live 20 miles away from Sandpoint to do ‘real’ shopping. What a bitch!
I learned my lesson the hard way. I told the wife before 2008 when we lost everything that we should sell our home worth 550 thou. and move back into our little house and go from 1,800 a month back to 557. She said no. In 2008, our 2nd home we bought for 109 and put another 50 thou into was worth less than what we were into it. I became disabled and we lost it and had to sell our little house at a 10,000 profit only to pay taxes that year of 10,000 back to uncle sam. I… Read more »
OUCH
Music, Hindsight is not always 20/20, IMO. I agree about the 50/50, although it never seems to work out quite that way. When it comes to paying bills and prioritizing where the money goes and when, it should IMO, be the person with the most conservative tendencies and the least air headed one. As far as where one lives and choices about homes; if one wants to keep the marriage there has to be a meeting of the minds along the way. In my case the year was 1975, we had no kids, yet, and I was the only one… Read more »
Too bad you had to go through that but came out the winner with this one in the end. My wife is no business person. I will put it this way. We went to buy her horse, her sister was there. The lady wanted 800 dollars. My wife said we only have 500 and immediately the seller said that was ok, and just as fast my wife said, we can give you the other 300 next month. We agreed, gave her the 500 and took the horse. She left and my sister asked her why she told her she would… Read more »
have more than a few friends on number 5 or6 and to me none of them is a keeper just leaches
Did you read my comment where it says that the your proficiency test cannot be more than 2 years old and that the training has to be by an approved Texas agency?
K. I sent another that says thanks but don’t bother and why.
Hi Ope,
The fact that all that bogus stuff done to Trump is going away, really has no effect on the Dimwits who will vote for her. TDS is a terminal disease and those with it are bound to take themselves out, one way or another.
As MM said earlier today on another topic: It is in their jeans….LOL
they will still try to defend the bs
they had an interview with senator from mass. she said she would vote for a dead democrat before any republican pretty well says they are demented
they are called massholes for a reason. they dont believe in rights
that pretty well says it TRUMP/VANCE 2024!
should add VANCE 2028
Agreed, lets hope when they try again, that they fail again.
Out-of-state residents must supply a color copy, front and back, of a state driver’s license or ID card and a proficiency certificate not greater than 2 years old from a course approved by the Texas Dept. of Public Safety. Applications may be submitted online or via mail.
My shooting proficiency documentation is over 10 years old and I don’t know if Texas would accept it even though it was given by Oregon LEO.
Texas does not say current CCW from other states that require proficiency exam will be accepted.
Drag.
bet you can write them an email and ask
Even if it were approved because it is a LEO agency, that doesn’t change the fact that it is over 2 years old. My NV covers plenty including New Mexico where I was planned on going before covid. That’s all water under the bridge now and probably a scratch on my bucket list.
OMG awaiting approval.
lol
NV covers NM, I haven’t checked TX but I think it does.
good to see you back Ope
Don’t bother though I appreciate your time. I don’t think I will be traveling ever again and if I am lucky enough to be able to do so, it could be up to two years because the wife needs knee surgery and a bone chip removed from her ankle of which I have heard they will need to cut her Achilles tendon to do it. I don’t think so but it is her decision.
Not a medical doctor, but from what little I know of laparoscopic surgery the only way they’d need to cut Achilles tendon would be if chip is connected to part of it. Then they should only be trimming what is necessary to remove the chip. My second knee surgery was uncomplicated and resulted in pretty much one day of down time. Was much less painful or debilitating than tearing my hamstring. Talk to her doctors and get honest assessment of what she will go through, how much PT is required, likelihood of full recovery (and what that looks like) as… Read more »
PS: Meant to comment – I feel for you. Life’s difficulties can absolutely suck. Good luck with wife’s treatments and getting both of you up and out in the world.
Thank you so much. She needs to have both knees replaced, bone on bone but wont lose the 100 lbs to get the surgeries and yes I need to talk to the surgeon not the foot specialist that sold us a 800 dollar pair of shoes that didn’t fix jack but is supposed to be a doctor.
If only we could finally get that appointment.