The anti-gun crusade intent on establishing a national database of firearm purchases appeared to be dead not long ago, but a few states opposed to the Second Amendment have breathed new life into the effort.

No less than 17 states now prohibit credit card companies from tracking firearm and ammunition purchases. This sent a clear warning to the financial services industry that Americans will not submit to having constitutional freedoms filtered through Wall Street boardrooms.

Under pressure to establish firearm-specific Merchant Category Codes (MCCs), these firms received the message loud and clear. Faced with laws banning these tracking measures, credit card companies backed down.

However, rising from the ashes of legal defeat are now three states that bucked the trend to protect the Constitution.

California, led by anti-gun radical Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), led the charge to mandate that credit card companies follow through with the controversial MCCs.

Colorado leaders who apparently looked to the Golden State for guidance in all matters related to the Second Amendment quickly followed suit.

And now New York is toeing the line. Gov. Kathy Hochul strengthened her anti-Bill of Rights credentials last week when she signed a series of laws into effect. That means three states now require financial firms to keep a database of gun and ammunition purchases made with credit cards.

Hochul’s signature was celebrated by the usual ring of suspects: Everytown for Gun Safety, Moms Demand Action and March for Our Lives.

New York is still throwing a collective temper tantrum after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down its system, which denied virtually all citizens the right to carry a firearm. The 2022 case reestablished the preeminence of constitutional gun rights, and state lawmakers have stumbled over themselves ever since to enact every conceivable law to thwart the will of the high court.

Now, they have put credit card companies in an unenviable position.

Tasked with navigating a patchwork quilt of laws across 20 states is a daunting undertaking and almost enough to make one sympathetic to the plight of these firms.

Almost.

It was two years ago when these same companies, faced with only the slightest bit of pressure from anti-gun advocates, quickly buckled and moved to establish these tracking systems. This movement was pushed by New York City officials and certain pension funds controlled by anti-Second Amendment advocates.

Just weeks after the Wall Street request, the International Organization for Standardization created a separate category for these lawful purchases. 

A series of announcements from firms such as Visa, Mastercard and Discover heralded this new MCC that would magically thwart criminals from owning weapons.

Gun sales historically have been categorized as “general merchandise.” However, supporters of the new MCCs argue that the ability to track and flag such purchases will somehow enable them to prevent mass shootings and violent crime. 

However, Second Amendment supporters quickly rose in unison against this scheme, and by early 2023, these same firms had backtracked.

That should have been enough to derail the movement to log gun and ammunition transactions, but it wasn’t.

Instead, California initiated the opposition, which was quickly followed by Colorado and now New York. Is there any doubt that Illinois, New Jersey and Oregon are not far behind?

It is vitally important that Congress take up this issue and pass legislation to outlaw tracking these purchases across the nation. That will not happen under Washington’s current makeup, but the pending election could radically alter the current proposal’s chances of passage.

That result would go far toward heading off the ultimate goal of activists currently celebrating New York’s new laws. That, of course, is firearm confiscation across the board.

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