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Posted by: Kate Prince on Sep 20, 2022

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti has joined Montana’s attorney general in heading up a coalition of 24 states in alerting three major credit card companies that a new “merchant category code” created to process firearms purchases from gun stores potentially violates consumer protection and antitrust laws. A letter from the coalition to American Express, Mastercard and Visa states that the monitoring and tracking of firearms purchases establishes a “list of gun buyers” and creates a risk that consumer information might be obtained and misused. “Giant financial companies must not use their combined market power to circumvent our representative democracy,” Skrmetti said in a release. Read more from the AG’s office.