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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Oliver O'Connell

Credit card companies will now categorise gun store sales separately

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Visa, the world’s largest payments processor, said on Saturday it would implement a new merchant category code for US gun sellers, which will identify transactions at firearms stores.

A slew of mass shootings in the US in 2022 has again reignited calls for stricter gun control and now credit card companies are moving to help track the purchase of weapons.

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