Discover Credit Card to track gun and ammo sales

[Gamesniper19]

Looks like we are being tracked - use cash when you can!!!

Discover Financial to reportedly track gun store purchases starting in April

Discover Financial Services reportedly proclaimed it will move forward in April to track purchases in gun stores, aiming to prevent firearms related crime.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Lefty7mmstw]

Looks like another reason to NOT use Discover

 

[buzby]

Grandstanding. They already track all of your purchases.

 

[can1010]

until recently they used just a general merchandise code now they are using a separate code and offering the info to the federal and state governments for a backdoor gun registry.
much worse than before, sounds like socialism to me.

 

[codybrown]

While I agree in premise with the concerns, how do they differentiate between gun, ammo, clothing, teeestand, bow, etc. purchases? Unless individual purchases are cashed out separately there's no way for them to track a genuine firearm purchase. There's also no way for them to log serial numbers without the 4473 to create a registry. This is Discover putting on a show to make those ignorant of the facts feel better.

 

[can1010]

they don't care about a serial # they are tracking the purchase. everything you buy is scanned with a upc code so they know exactly what you are buying and where you purchased it.

 

[codybrown]

Electronic tracking has been that way for years. You're kidding yourself if you think otherwise.

Transaction price is sent to the company, not upc information.

 

[can1010]

they only tracked it as general merchandise not gun and ammo specific code. this started with the credit cards in the European Union and now they are bringing it here.
if you think this is the same as before good luck on that

 

[codybrown]

Transaction amount is sent to the company. They can code it as whatever they want. A $500 purchase from Joe's Armory will be just that. They don't have an independent breakdown for each item in the transaction.

 

[can1010]

maybe in the old days not anymore. the same way they track everything you do online and then send you specific adds about what you looked at. they track what you purchase as well as where you purchased it. welcome to the new world

 

[codybrown]

Funny, when the slip prints from my credit card machine at the end of the day is says nothing other than the transaction amounts of each sale.

 

[can1010]

because that is the info your machine is set up to gather. if your machine was set up differently it would till you everything, how do you think big box stores do inventory? they don't count every item.

 

[codybrown]

A stores inventory is set up using upc's. Credit card transactions are set up as a monetary transaction, individual upc codes aren't sent to the cc company.

 

[can1010]

if you believe that good luck. this was all over the news months ago and the credit card companies admitted to doing it. you scan it they track it.