A few months ago, Authorize.net, an online credit card processor and a subsidiary of VISA canceled the account of The Hyatt Gun Shop, one of the largest gun retailers in the US, for supposedly violating a no firearms policy held by the company.
Following that story, the NSSF reached out to Authorize.net and VISA and finally got a response.
According to an NSSF member email,
“….Our letter and their review resulted in their amending the Authorize.net policy to remove the offending provision. The executives stressed that they support all forms of legal transactions, including legal online firearms sales.”
Source: http://gunssavelives.net/gun-industry/visa-authorize-net-clarify-policy-on-credit-card-processing-for-firearms-sales/
Wonderful, it’s good when companies come to their senses. Perhaps the fact that Authorize.net was bought by another party had to do with it.
Gun control is just bad for business, and everyone else.
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