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Title: For Gun Shop Owners, It’s No Longer Hip to Be ‘Square
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The Daily Signal
URL Source: http://dailysignal.com/2014/09/25/gun-shop-owners-longer-hip-square/
Published: Sep 25, 2014
Author: Jennifer Kerns
Post Date: 2014-09-25 19:10:01 by Buzzard
Keywords: None
Views: 104
Comments: 4
It’s white. It’s square. And at 1-by-1 inch in diameter, it is the perfect accoutrement to any entrepreneur’s smartphone. With its quick swipe capability and ultimate portability, the high-tech Square Reader credit-card processor has become an invaluable tool in today’s economy. Taxi drivers use it—as do trade-show vendors, online retailers and home contractors. It is, as the company’s slogan says, a “small credit card reader” that offers “big possibilities.” But some of those big possibilities are apparently being foreclosed by the Obama administration. Last summer, around the same time the U.S. Department of Justice’s Operation Choke Point began pressuring banks to drop customers who buy or sell firearms, tobacco and other goods considered “not acceptable” by the Obama administration, Square quietly changed its terms of agreement. In an alert regarding a change of terms, Square notified vendors: …you will not accept payments in connection with the following businesses or business activities: …sales of (i) firearms, firearm parts or hardware, and ammunition; or (ii) weapons and other devices designed to cause physical injury. The new terms differ from Square’s original terms of agreement, which banned only the “online” sales of firearms, a practice for which sites such as the popular eBay have long been criticized. (Square’s terms, by the way, also prohibit the online sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products —goods that also are targeted by Operation Choke Point.) Today, the Square’s terms prohibit gun-shop owners from using the credit-card processor not only when they are conducting gun sales at their brick-and-mortar stores but even more so when they are offsite, representing their stores at gun shows where they often need the wireless Square Reader to ring up sales on smartphones or tablets. Gun show have been a target of anti-gun activists for nearly 20 years. The action and its impact were noted by gun enthusiast blogs at the time, but it was hardly a blip on the radar screen of mainstream outlets. Now, with evidence mounting of an all-out war on Second Amendment supporters in the financial marketplace, it fits the bill of an Operation Choke Point target. Square’s revised terms of agreement immediately forced vendors to halt the processing of transactions of citizens who simply wish to buy or sell firearms or ammunition. The timing of the release of the Square’s new, more stringent terms just so happens to coincide with Operation Choke Point’s initial targeting in the spring of 2013, as reported by The Daily Signal. The timing also coincides with banking relationship cancellations of pro-Second Amendment candidates and campaigns throughout the United States, including last year’s Colorado recall elections over gun control. Square’s press office did not responded to three attempts to obtain comment for this story. With the help of the U.S. Consumer Coalition, more law-abiding business owners are coming forward to report abuses of power they suffered through Operation Choke Point. As Americans begin to share their stories, the question ultimately will become whose arms are more important: the long arm of the Justice Department, or our right to bear arms? The U.S. Constitution guarantees only the latter. Poster Comment: No one should be leaving a paper trail when purchasing firearms and ammunition anyway.
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#1. To: Buzzard (#0)
Sale items should be shown as 'machine parts' and the vendor can write a bill-of-sale if a warranty is involved
-Alex Kurtagic
#2. To: Buzzard (#0)
You don't even need a credit card these days to leave a paper trail. In the State of California, even if you use cash to pay for any ammunition and supplies at a gun outlet store. they ask to see ID and they take down that info before they give you your purchased items.
#3. To: purplerose (#2)
I'll make sure to bring some along the next time I drive up there. ammunition and supplies
#4. To: Buzzard (#3) (Edited)
That's a smart move. I know for a fact that most of those stores do check id before handing you over your purchases. I've heard that in Ventura County California they may not be fingerprinting and checking id's on people as so done in L.A. due to the problem with gangs.
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