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Depends on what you’re doing. Not so with cars or buying lumber anymore.

Still is for labor tho

I use my old lady's account to pay my mortgage, and bills and buy stuff online, everything else cash.

How can you use a credit card for an illegal transaction?

If you’re buying from a dealer, it really doesn’t matter. Hell, I figure they been tracking them since Bush 1 was President.
Private sales is another matter, but then suppose you bought a .220 Swift from a buddy.
That’s clear, right? But did you buy dies or brass online with a credit card?
They’ve been tracking all that stuff, probably for longer than we wanna think about.
All the more reason to support your LGS with cash.
I try to avoid paying for anything gun related with anything other than cash.
Sometimes it’s unavoidable, things ain’t available locally and you gotta go online.
But I try to keep that to a minimum.
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you!
7mm

nothing online.

If you really do follow through this time with the divorce, you might want to re-think all that.

I agree. Until like the Democrats get more power and turn more communist than they already are and make a new currency in the currency that already exist is invalid. If these people get enough power in office we are in deep s*** it's time to shoot

I always use cash for firearm purchases so the wife won’t be able to track them.

Haha

From here on out cash it is.

The people dreaming up these things and implementing them are thinking well into the future and their objective is control. Granted a special code for firearms dealers allows them to track those transactions more
easily but they already have that ability. I think they are doing this so at some point they can flag or cancel those credit card transactions more easily. When we convert to digital currency those transactions can be automatically canceled leaving barter as the only way to purchase firearms and related products.

Fburgtx: More bullcrap on credit card gun sales.
What are these liberal morons trying to do/solve?

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Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

All of our bills are billed to a credit card.
And build points.
And they are the things on record.
Have to use CC for mail order stuff, unavoidable.

Every other thing we buy is cash.
Don't have anything to hide, but no one has a right to know our business.



Cashless is coming. And idiots are welcoming it.
Guy at work loves it, even though he works all kind of tax free cash jobs.
Was a hoot telling him that nonsense will stop and he will pay "his share".

most of the guns I've bought over the years have been cash or trade

just seems to work that way, I have bought a few on my debit card. I guess that will end now.

What is the purpose of merchant codes to begin with?

How would it be classified when you buy a gun from Walmart along with a quart of motor oil and a bag of potato chips??

Exactly. If the merchant does not report exactly what you're buying, how does the bank know? To them, it's just a charge. It's not itemized. They obviously know that you have bought something from someone known to sell guns or ammo or whatever (and that alone is more than enough for "them" to know what they want to know about you), but how would they know exactly what it was that you bought, unless the merchant is giving the bank an itemized invoice of the charges?

The government already has your gun purchase history, so this isn't that big of a deal to me.

Always been my way as well!! Keep a cash "gun fund" in one of the gun safes. Shop owned by a good friend will give a better deal on cash purchases anyway, especially on used guns.

I have always assumed the bank got a copy of the same itemized receipt that the clerk hands me at the register.

Amy time we return an item to the store for credit, the value has to go back on the same card it was charged on.

These days there is plenty for old guys to fret about.