Extra: The Targeting Of Gun Transactions

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 18 February 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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For years, Second Amendment advocates have long raised concerns about both the government and the public sector collecting and tracking gun purchase data. They say this is a privacy issue and a pathway to deny people their rights to own a weapon or target gun owners legally. The state of California recently passed a law that says banks and credit card companies must assign merchant category codes to firearm sellers by May of next year so they can flag suspicious activity and alert law enforcement. Members of Congress have also recently raised alarms over reports the Treasury Department is conducting surveillance on gun owners. On the FOX News Rundown this week, Jessica Rosenthal spoke with Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, who has been outspoken about his opposition to such practices and why tracking gun purchases is a violation of the law. Jessica also spoke with former ATF Senior Executive Scott Sweetow about how effective a database on gun purchases could be when trying to stop gun trafficking and mass shooters. We made edits for time and thought you might like to hear our entire conversations with both guests. On today's FOX News Rundown Extra, you'll hear even more from Montana AG Austin Knudsen and former ATF agent Scott Sweetow about gun data collection and whether or not that information would a helpful tool for law enforcement. Photo Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.3	This is the Fox News Run Down Extra.
0:33.7	I'm Jessica Rosenthal.
0:38.6	This past week we spoke to Montana's Attorney General and a former ATF executive about tracking gun purchases through merchant
0:46.0	category codes.
0:47.0	The state of California passed a law that says banks and credit card companies must assign
0:51.8	merchant category codes to firearm sellers by May of next year,
0:56.1	so they can flag suspicious activity and alert law enforcement.
1:00.2	This past week a major media outlet reported that three major credit card companies had
1:04.4	resumed work on that code in order to comply with California's law.
1:08.8	Now before California passed the law, the credit card companies had begun work on codes for gun stores but they stopped
1:14.6	due to pushback. While most retailers do have merchant codes, things purchase at gun stores
1:19.8	have previously been labeled as sporting goods or other and gun control advocates say
1:24.9	large purchases in short time periods of items from gun stores could lead law
1:29.7	enforcement to stop mass shootings. Several Republican states attorneys general say trying to track gun store purchases may be illegal.
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