Congressman Fuller Votes to Block Financial Surveillance of Lawful Gun Owners

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Fuller voted to pass the Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act, barring payment card networks from tagging firearms retailers with special merchant codes that would let banks and credit card companies track lawful gun and ammunition purchases. The bill passed the House this evening and now moves to the Senate.

“The government has no business building a list of who buys a firearm and who buys ammunition. That is a backdoor gun registry, and every gun owner in Northwest Georgia should be free of it. As the District Attorney for the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit, I spent my career protecting law-abiding citizens, not tracking them,” said Congressman Fuller.

This legislation is crucial to prevent credit card issuers from singling out firearm retailers, and it directs the Department of Justice to enforce the ban and report to Congress each year on the resulting investigations.