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Rep. Hill seeks to ban financial tracking of firearms sales by merchant codes; bill would impose $10,000 penalty per violation
Summary
Rep. Ted Hill introduced RS 32,273 to prohibit financial institutions from using merchant codes or other payment-processing tools to track firearm and ammunition purchases; the draft would allow $10,000 injunctions per violation and was introduced for hearing.
Rep. Ted Hill, R-District 14, introduced RS 32,273 on Wednesday to extend prohibitions on tracking firearms purchases beyond major credit-card companies to include financial institutions more broadly.
Hill told the House State Affairs Committee the intent of the measure is to stop what he described as a backdoor surveillance…
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