The U.S. House just voted to block one of the gun confiscation lobby’s favorite backdoor registration schemes: using credit card companies to track gun and ammunition purchases.
H.R. 1181, the Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act, passed the House by a 221-201 vote and now heads to the U.S. Senate.
For Texas gun owners, this fight should sound familiar.
Texas Gun Rights joined efforts in Austin to pass the Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act in 2023 — a law aimed at stopping banks, credit card companies, and payment processors from surveilling, reporting, or tracking firearm, ammunition, and accessory purchases through special merchant category codes.
Texas led. Now Congress is trying to catch up.
The Gun Registry They Didn’t Want to Vote On
The gun confiscation lobby does not need to pass a formal gun registry if banks and credit card companies can build one for them.
That was the entire point of the firearm-specific merchant category code scheme.
Flag the gun stores.
Track the purchases.
Store the data.
Hand it over when the government, activists, or anti-gun politicians come asking.
They call it “public safety.”
Texas Gun Rights calls it what it is: a backdoor gun-owner registry.
TXGR Warned This Was Coming
In 2023, Texas Gun Rights warned lawmakers that financial institutions were being turned into private-sector gun control enforcers.
The Legislature listened.
The Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act helped stop this scheme in Texas before it could become another weapon against law-abiding gun owners.
Because once gun purchases can be tracked, the next steps are obvious:
- Watchlists.
- Suspicious activity reports.
- Account shutdowns.
- Political pressure campaigns.
- Financial blacklists.
That is the future the gun confiscation lobby wants.
The Senate Needs to Finish the Job
The House vote is a good step, but the fight is not over.
H.R. 1181 now heads to the Senate, where anti-gun politicians will do everything they can to protect the financial surveillance machine.
Gun owners should not be tracked, flagged, reported, or punished for exercising a constitutional right.
Not by the ATF.
Not by politicians.
Not by banks.
Not by credit card companies.
And not by woke corporations taking orders from the gun confiscation lobby.
Texas showed the country how to fight back. Now Congress needs to finish the job.
Chip in today to help Texas Gun Rights keep fighting back against gun registries, financial surveillance, and every attack on your Second Amendment rights.
