Buying guns and ammunition on credit, while perhaps financially irresponsible, doesn't mean your banker should report you to the police. It's an absurd suggestion the New York Times would freak out about if made for groups they prefer.
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Imagine if somebody suggested banks inform ICE when they notice spending behavior they believe is associated with being in the country illegally. How would the New York Times feel about that?
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Thankfully, thus far, even the most radically anti-gun banks like Citi and Bank of America haven't been brazen enough to act as some sort of secret police and report customers' gun spending to the government.
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Some in the financial industry no longer want to do business with the gun industry but none of them have decided to harass their gun owning customers writ large. Not yet, at least.
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Anyway I have to get ready to head home to see family. Merry Christmas, everyone!
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If you buy guns on credit that you can’t afford, that is a big red flag. In the absence of serious action to prevent mass shootings, this is a practical, reasonable consideration, unless you think the uprising is neigh, in which case bankers are probably first to the gallows.
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This is utter nonsense. Millions of Americans buy guns on credit like they do with everything else. There's nothing inherently suspicious about it at all.
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I support 2nd Amendment fully, but if you buy mass quantities of guns and ammo on credit with no ability to pay them off, I have reasonable suspicion of your criminal intent...
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Save up in your piggy bank for that AR-15. Someone who keeps guns to protect against government overreach should already realize this and pay cash, accepted everywhere.
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Wanting the millions of Americans who purchase firearms to be reported to the government as potential terrorists is disturbingly authoritarian.
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The credit cards don’t have to report flagged buyers to the government, they can simply deny the purchase. Free market in action!
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Now flip if around and have the banks screen for people you do support. If they start with gun owners eventually they’ll get to something to you disagree with.
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Given the discrepancy between these two figures, and the fact that (unlike say weed, alcohol, a new car or a big screen TV) you can massacre people with those purchases, you honestly think it's inappropriate for a red flag to be waved somewhere?pic.twitter.com/eJ4HzZ2Axp
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Do you think everyone who uses a credit card to spend beyond their means should be reported to the government as a potential terrorist? Also, the ring is by far the most expensive thing listed there. Should everyone who buys jewelry on credit be tracked?
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So the one-time difference in monthly spending is $1,500 versus just under $20,000 if we limit ourselves to just guns. My question still remains.
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A MCX and Glock 17 cost less than $2500 combined. Tracking somebody's financial information is fine if police have enough evidence they may be planning a crime to get a warrant. Otherwise, no. Now go ahead and answer my question.
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they do it when they buy that much in manure and other bomb components. They do it when you buy that much in meth components. But heavy gun purchases are OK....
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Banks should report them all. Guns and ammo should not be hidden.
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Your authoritarian impulse is noted.
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My impulse to protect the innocent from the idiots with the guns they can’t even afford is noted. ...fixed that for ya
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