Little-Acorn
01-08-2008, 11:45 AM
A large firearms retailer, CDNN Sports, recently received an "interesting" letter (shown below) from a credit-card processor, saying the processor was refusing to conduct transactions for them. The letter contained several remarkable whoppers, even for an anti-gun-rights whacko.
"A violation of the [Federal 1968] Gun Control Act occurs when a gun offered omnlie is sold to an individual in another state..."
Flatly false. No violation occurs when a gun is sold to anyone in another state or the same state. The lettter writer carefully omits pointing out what section of the law forbids interstate sales, because there isn't one.
"...the act prohibits selling a handgun to a resident of another state."
The 1968 GCA does no such thing, of course. It carefully outlines what procedures must be followed to sell a handgun or any other firearms to someone in another state... procedures which CDNN Sports has always followed to the letter.
"Shipping [guns] across state lines is also banned..."
This letter-writer better call the cops - she's got the scoop of the century here. Or she would, if her vaporings were true. Literally millions of such shipments occur every year, all under the benevolent approval of the Federal government and every other govt of the areas involved. Federal law requires that interstate shipments of firearms must go to a holder of a Federal Firearms License (FFL), who must then perform a standard background check and turn the gun over to the intended recipient. Such FFL holders are in every city, usually licensed firearms dealers, sporting good stores, private individuals, etc. CDNN Sports does this every time, without exception, and has for years. If they didn't, they'd have been raided and shut down by the Feds years ago.
Note, of course, that not every state has a gun manufacturer or importer within its borders. If the writer's wishes were true, many states would be completely free of legal firearms. (Hint to the wishful-thinking writer: They aren't.)
This silly letter points out the obvious (and intended) results of the national campaign to demonize firearms and terrify the public against them. Most people don't even know what the laws actually are concerning firearms, but are so convinced guns are eeeevil that they figure it's all right to treat them, and their owners, like criminals "just in case". Black people who had done nothing wrong were treated the same way before (and after) the Civil War. The gun-rights-haters profess to recoil from such treatment of blacks, but have no problem doing the same thing to firearms owners.
Hopefully this credit card company will suffer the loss of business they deserve - credit cards are used extensively for purchases of firearms, ammunition, supplies, etc., and they are high-dollar items. There are plenty of other credit-card companies out there. There's no point in using one that is so paranoid and business-unfriendly.
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http://www.migunowners.org/forum/showthread.php?t=23203
CREDIT CARD PROCESSING COMPANY REJECTS FIREARMS INDUSTRY
REFUSES TO PROCESS TRANSACTIONS . . . Citi Merchant Services and First Data Corp. are refusing to process any credit card transactions between federally licensed firearms retailers, distributors and manufacturers -- a move which will severely limit available inventory of firearms and ammunition to military, law enforcement and law-abiding Americans.
The first company to be affected by this decision appears to be firearms distributor CDNN Sports Inc.
"We were contacted recently by First Data/Citi Merchant Services by a June Rivera-Mantilla stating that we were terminated and funds were being seized for selling firearms in a non-face-to-face transaction," said Charlie Crawford, president of CDNN Sports Inc. "Although perfectly legal, we were also informed that no transactions would be processed in the future, even for non-firearms. I find this very frightening."
To voice your concern to Citi Merchant Services and First Data Corp., please contact June Rivera-Mantilla at 631-683-7734 or her supervisor Robert Tenenbaum at 631-683-6570.
To change to an NSSF-affiliated credit card processing program, contact Payment Alliance International at 1-866-371-2273 (ext. 1131).
http://www.nssf.org/share/images/letter.jpg
"A violation of the [Federal 1968] Gun Control Act occurs when a gun offered omnlie is sold to an individual in another state..."
Flatly false. No violation occurs when a gun is sold to anyone in another state or the same state. The lettter writer carefully omits pointing out what section of the law forbids interstate sales, because there isn't one.
"...the act prohibits selling a handgun to a resident of another state."
The 1968 GCA does no such thing, of course. It carefully outlines what procedures must be followed to sell a handgun or any other firearms to someone in another state... procedures which CDNN Sports has always followed to the letter.
"Shipping [guns] across state lines is also banned..."
This letter-writer better call the cops - she's got the scoop of the century here. Or she would, if her vaporings were true. Literally millions of such shipments occur every year, all under the benevolent approval of the Federal government and every other govt of the areas involved. Federal law requires that interstate shipments of firearms must go to a holder of a Federal Firearms License (FFL), who must then perform a standard background check and turn the gun over to the intended recipient. Such FFL holders are in every city, usually licensed firearms dealers, sporting good stores, private individuals, etc. CDNN Sports does this every time, without exception, and has for years. If they didn't, they'd have been raided and shut down by the Feds years ago.
Note, of course, that not every state has a gun manufacturer or importer within its borders. If the writer's wishes were true, many states would be completely free of legal firearms. (Hint to the wishful-thinking writer: They aren't.)
This silly letter points out the obvious (and intended) results of the national campaign to demonize firearms and terrify the public against them. Most people don't even know what the laws actually are concerning firearms, but are so convinced guns are eeeevil that they figure it's all right to treat them, and their owners, like criminals "just in case". Black people who had done nothing wrong were treated the same way before (and after) the Civil War. The gun-rights-haters profess to recoil from such treatment of blacks, but have no problem doing the same thing to firearms owners.
Hopefully this credit card company will suffer the loss of business they deserve - credit cards are used extensively for purchases of firearms, ammunition, supplies, etc., and they are high-dollar items. There are plenty of other credit-card companies out there. There's no point in using one that is so paranoid and business-unfriendly.
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http://www.migunowners.org/forum/showthread.php?t=23203
CREDIT CARD PROCESSING COMPANY REJECTS FIREARMS INDUSTRY
REFUSES TO PROCESS TRANSACTIONS . . . Citi Merchant Services and First Data Corp. are refusing to process any credit card transactions between federally licensed firearms retailers, distributors and manufacturers -- a move which will severely limit available inventory of firearms and ammunition to military, law enforcement and law-abiding Americans.
The first company to be affected by this decision appears to be firearms distributor CDNN Sports Inc.
"We were contacted recently by First Data/Citi Merchant Services by a June Rivera-Mantilla stating that we were terminated and funds were being seized for selling firearms in a non-face-to-face transaction," said Charlie Crawford, president of CDNN Sports Inc. "Although perfectly legal, we were also informed that no transactions would be processed in the future, even for non-firearms. I find this very frightening."
To voice your concern to Citi Merchant Services and First Data Corp., please contact June Rivera-Mantilla at 631-683-7734 or her supervisor Robert Tenenbaum at 631-683-6570.
To change to an NSSF-affiliated credit card processing program, contact Payment Alliance International at 1-866-371-2273 (ext. 1131).
http://www.nssf.org/share/images/letter.jpg