Sunday, January 18, 2015
Firearms Sellers Say They’re Being Choked Off From Payment Processors
You’ll also find few vendors using popular payment processors such as Square, Stripe and Spark Pay.
That’s because some payment processors explicitly prohibit the use of their systems for online — and some in-store — sales of firearms, ammunition and certain accessories.
Retailers in the gun industry say they’re being discriminated against.
“Being shut out from mainstream payment processors makes us feel like we are part of some type of shady business when, in fact, there is more regulation and documentation required for federally licensed firearms dealers than most businesses,” said Trevor Blandford of Terminal Performance Associates in Caroline, Va.
Blandford, 21, has been working gun shows for his family’s business since he was 14 years old. Recently, his parents named him general manager of Terminal Performance, which is known for its custom-built pistols and rifles and originally finished wraps. He and his family sell their merchandise online and at local trade shows.
To process payments, most merchants use some sort of payment processor.
Payment processors are companies, often third-party outlets, which handle credit card transactions between merchants and banks.
The concern some firearms sellers expressed to The Daily Signal is that restricting their access to some of the largest payment processors in the country — who offer the lowest transaction fees in the business — puts them at an unfair disadvantage to other industries.
Add that to the long list of regulations firearms sellers already face, and some say it’s not even worth attempting to start a business.
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These 26 Traitorous Republicans Voted Against Blocking Amnesty – Must Be Defeated In 2016
The bill passed by a vote of 218-209, with the defections coming largely in districts in which Republicans represent large minority populations and in which they may have felt it prudent to put their perceived interests of minority citizens and their associated votes over the Constitution and the oath they swore.
The first to vote against the amendment was the RINO from North Carolina, Renee Ellmers, a most disdainful turncoat who should be forced to identify with the Democrats as the heavily Republican majority doesn’t justify a foreign operative within their ranks. She was later joined by 25 more, all of whom should be targeted for primary opposition in 2016 and removed from office.
All of them swore an oath to uphold the Constitution on February 6th. It took less than ten days for each one to violate that oath in the furtherance of their own personal or a greater socialist agenda.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) had enhanced her reputation among conservatives when she fought tenaciously for the release of Sgt Andrew Tahmooressi from a Mexican prison. Whatever goodwill she garnered through that effort was just squandered in her trampling upon our sovereignty and our Constitution. One good deed does not provide a justification or permission for future transgressions.
The shameful sellouts are:
Saturday, January 17, 2015
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