Let's Prevent Gun Ownership The Old Fashioned Way: Let's Shame Credit Card Companies and Their Customers

Leave it to the New York Times:

The New York Times published an article on Monday suggesting that credit card companies surveil cardholders who purchase firearms.

The NYT piece, authored by Andrew Ross Sorkin, noted that a number of mass shooters purchased their weapons and ammo using credit cards. Banks are required to alert federal authorities to purchases exceeding $10,000, but there are rules preventing them from seeing precisely what goods users are purchasing.

Nonetheless, NYT’s Sorkin suggests that banks track purchases at sporting goods stores and gun shops and prevent cardholders from purchasing multiple firearms “in a short period of time” and report unusual spending patterns.

I wonder what card was in Adam Lanza's wallet?

posted by Misanthropic Humanitarian at 05:06 PM

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