Firearms Financial Privacy Killed by 17 Wyoming Senators!
The GOA-backed Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act (HB0234) passed the Wyoming House on January 31 by a 56 to 3 vote only to be killed by 17 of 31 Wyoming Senators on February 21!
The bill would have prohibited the assignment of firearms-specific Merchant Category Codes (MCC) to any merchant located in Wyoming that is a seller of firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition. It would have also prohibited the tracking of firearms ownership.
Firearms MCCs are the brainchild of International and American entities who want to push gun control in the United States with the ultimate goal of confiscation of firearms. These codes identify “who” is selling firearms and can be used to revoke credit and take other retaliatory acts against firearms sellers. Most importantly, MCCs are a first step to creating a National Firearms Registry of gun owners.
HB0234 proposed to change current Wyoming statutes and require the Wyoming Attorney General (AG) to take action against credit card processors who establish these codes.
Current statutes makes it discretionary for the AG to even enforce the law!
Furthermore, the bill would have allowed citizens to take civil action in court against entities that establish MCCs if the AG failed to act.
Despite passing the House with a 95% majority and passing a Senate Committee by a 5-0 vote, 17 Wyoming Senators don’t think you deserve to have your Firearms Privacy protected.
If there were problems with the Legislation, why did the Senate Committee, which voted in favor of the bill 5-0, not address those? Why did the Senate not address those on First or Second Reading? Why did the Senate wait until Third Reading to KILL THE BILL?
The question becomes where does the loyalty of these 17 Senators lie?
Please TAKE ACTION BY CLICKING HERE and send a message to the following 17 Wyoming Senators letting them know you don’t appreciate their failure to protect your Second Amendment Financial Privacy.
Further, because there is strong evidence that Wyoming Legislative Services has censored citizens’ emails for at least two years, we also ask you to take one additional step.
In addition to sending our pre-written message, we also ask you to please copy and paste the addresses of all 17 Senators into your e-mail bcc line and message them all with a personal message.
- Bo.Biteman@wyoleg.gov
- Evie.Brennan@wyoleg.gov
- Cale.Case@wyoleg.gov
- Ed.Cooper@wyoleg.gov
- Barry.Crago@wyoleg.gov
- Ogden.Driskill@wyoleg.gov
- Mike.Gierau@wyoleg.gov
- Lynn.Hutchings@wyoleg.gov
- Stacy.Jones@wyoleg.gov
- John.Kolb@wyoleg.gov
- Bill.Landen@wyoleg.gov
- Dan.Laursen@wyoleg.gov
- Tara.Nethercott@wyoleg.gov
- Jared.Olsen@wyoleg.gov
- Stephan.Pappas@wyoleg.gov
- Chris.Rothfuss@wyoleg.gov
- Wendy.Schuler@wyoleg.gov
Please remember these 17 Senators as we move forward.
GOA will be working with committed pro-Second Amendment Legislators to revisit this issue in next year’s Legislative Session, so please stay tuned for more information soon regarding how you can help strengthen Second Amendment Protections in Wyoming.
