Fri, January 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM UTC If you’ve ever purchased anything online or over the phone and paid with a credit card, you more likely than not have been asked for your card’s security code.

Time and time again, we as members of Congress grapple with the unanswered question of mass shootings: How do we save lives? One answer is simple. Let’s require merchant codes that show when a gun is ...

Major credit card companies are moving to make a merchant code available for firearm and ammunition retailers in order to comply with a new California law that will allow banks to potentially track ...

Most businesses that accept credit cards are assigned a merchant code, sometimes called a merchant category code. It’s a four-digit number that tells the credit card processing companies a little bit ...

Mastercard, Visa, and American Express are reportedly preparing to equip California firearms and ammunition retailers with a merchant code that would track gun purchases. This comes as a new state law ...

DES MOINES — A Senate subcommittee advanced a bill Wednesday already passed by the House to prohibit the use of a merchant code for credit card transactions at gun retailers meant to detect suspicious ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (FOX40.COM) — California is taking more ...