Walberg Defends Second Amendment and Demands Answers from Credit Card Companies

Washington, D.C.—This week, Congressman Tim Walberg (MI-07) joined 100 of his House colleagues in sending letters to the CEOs of American Express, Mastercard, and Visa expressing concern with the new firearm-specific Merchant Category Code (MCC), designed to track the use of credit cards used to purchase firearms. As this new classification is implemented, the letter calls for ensuring it is not used to track law-abiding gun owners or infringe on their Constitutional rights. Click here to read the letter.

“Shortly after the new code, we have already seen far-left officials urging credit card companies to flag allegedly suspicious firearms transactions, establishing a dangerous new precedent resembling a government gun registry,” said Walberg. “This system raises all sorts of Constitutional concerns and is ripe for government overreach, which was clearly the intended purpose when anti-gun activists lobbied for private companies to create this new code. We simply cannot allow a backdoor attempt to track law-abiding gun owners with such unprecedented access. I will continue to work with my colleagues to provide transparency, demand answers, and will always protect the Second Amendment rights of the American people.”