That "Gun Purchase" Tracker? Big Labor Pushed It.

 Americans who keep track of the people who keep track of Americans know that gun-store purchases are now being tracked.  Discover card is merely the latest outfit to join the spy-on-you crowd.

...A Discover company spokesperson told Reuters that other payment network firms have also decided to impose the new MCC code in April, without naming the firms. “We were following the industry for consistent implementation,” the spokesperson said.

Back in September, Mastercard, Visa, and American Express also announced that they will be assigning category codes for sales that take place at gun stores and on gun-related purchases from stores dealing in sporting goods....

The tracking-code was mandated by the consortium (IOC) which issues such codes and mandates their use.

The request for this spying activity was made by the Amalgamated Bank, which is owned by US labor unions.  The bank is not "big."  But Big Labor is "big" and has a lot of influence with the Installed Regime (see, e.g., Big Labor Nepot Trumka who will soon kill off gas stoves.)

Here's the Amalgamated Bank on the matter:

...Priscilla Sims Brown, president & CEO of Amalgamated Bank, told CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin at the Evolve Global Summit on Wednesday that the banking and financial industry can, and should, use these codes to track gun purchases in order to help prevent acts of gun violence....

... Credit card companies could detect any unusual activity, and submit a suspicious activity report with law enforcement, if needed. This type of activity monitoring would prove to be particularly important, Brown said, in detecting when someone purchases large amounts of weapons, or when someone is buying weapons for somebody that is not legally allowed to do so....

The tracking will also establish a gun-owner registry.  But Ms. Brown "forgot" to mention that, because it is the real reason for this request.  And if you think that this was Ms. Brown's idea, you are dumber than she is.  This came directly from the White House, whether they admit it or not.

One wonders how many Teamsters and Steelworkers know that their own union is watching them purchase AR's.

Heh.