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Different approaches to gun makers
Citi Merchant Services and First Data Corp. are refusing to process credit card transactions for firearms licensees. UPDATE: that link doesn't work for some browsers, so here's a better one.
Meanwhile, Oklahoma is trying to attract gun makers there.
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Posted by: Don Hamrick at January 8, 2008 05:32 PM
Don,
Please give it up. You're a nutball with all your "I get a CCW cuz I'm a merchant seaman". Your documents make us laugh, if it weren't so tragic that someone actually wasted time in creating them.
BTW GOA ratings are pretty irrelevant given GOA is a pretty useless organization. Hell, we're still trying to recover from screwups of GOA-spawned GOC idiocies in California (GOC's Sam Paredes screwup brought us microstamping and lead ammo bans.)
Bill Wiese
San Jose CA
Posted by: Bill Wiese at January 9, 2008 12:03 PM
Flame wars aside, would readers be interested in a "blogburst" to try to convince CitiBank's of the error of their ways?
If we can get sufficient numbers of 2A-supporting types to cut up their Citi cards and send CitiBank a piece of the card with a letter explaining that it's not nice to piss off all gunowners, then maybe we could make a difference.
I'll carry the ball on my (non-commercial) blog if David will agree to proofread my appeal to make sure it's not an illegal secondary boycott.
Another way to do this would be to examine the interbank rules for MasterCard, which might prohibit the type of discrimination that Citi has just pulled off.
Our goal here should be nothing less than a proper apology from CitiBank, acknowledging that it's not nice to "chill" a basic Constitutional right like that, and with their assurance that the dumkopf(s) who promulgated this rule has/have been either dismissed or reduced in rank to where they can't make such mistakes in the future.
Posted by: Rivrdog at January 9, 2008 01:54 PM
Citi Merchant Services and First Data Corporation are, in their ignorance and paranoia regarding federal law, refusing to process perfectly legal financial transactions by CDNN related to firearms. While I deplore their actions, please excuse me if I can't really work up a lot of outrage on behalf of CDNN, which in its ignorance and paranoia regarding Massachusetts law, refuses to make perfectly legal sales to C&R licensees and others here in Massachusetts.
Posted by: Ken at January 9, 2008 03:40 PM