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Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, wants credit card companies to do what Congress and the ATF won’t. (Photo: Shannon Watts Facebook)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts said in an op-ed this week that credit card companies like Visa and Mastercard should begin prohibiting the sale of \u201cghost gun\u201d kits and \u201ccore components.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith federal regulators falling well short of their obligations to the public, credit card companies have an opportunity — and a responsibility — to be part of the solution by refusing to process these dangerous and illegal sales,\u201d Watts said in Business Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBy refusing to process payments for illegal ghost gun kit sales, credit card companies can stand on the right side of history \u2014 and show Americans they are willing to put their money where their values are,\u201d Watts concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The anti-gun lobby has in the past successfully pressured financial institutions to prohibit certain types of firearm sales. But the willingness of private companies like Facebook, Twitter, Apple, and Google, to bend to recent social pressure could spell trouble for firearm companies and gun owners alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watts argues that \u201cghost guns\u201d\u2014or non-serialized, build-it-yourself firearms\u2014are the \u201cfastest-growing gun safety threat in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEE ALSO: Shannon Watts On Gun Control Movement, \u2018We\u2019re Winning\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

She cites the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), which estimated that 10,000 non-serialized guns were seized by law enforcement agents in 2019. But she fails to mention that in that year, law enforcement agents seized at least 269,000 firearms, according to the same ATF data<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watts also makes much of the ATF\u2019s recent statement that certain build-it-yourself firearm kits are, in fact, firearms. The agency said as much<\/a> to justify a raid of popular build-it-yourself firearm company Polymer80. But Watts also fails to mention that the ATF has for years assured gun owners that 80-percent receives are not firearms and therefore not subject to background check requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watts calls on credit card companies to do what the ATF won\u2019t: ban build-it-yourself firearms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe ATF raid was an important step, but the agency has far more to do,\u201d she said. \u201cUntil it asserts full regulatory authority over this dangerous and illegal end-run around our gun safety laws, we need to fight the problem on every front, and that means declining to process payments for illegal and dangerous ghost gun kits.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEE ALSO: Shannon Watts Shows Ignorance, Completely Embarrasses Herself with this Tweet<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There is precedent for Watts\u2019 wishes. At the behest of groups like Moms Demand Action, Citigroup<\/a> and other banks refused to do business with any retail outlet that sold certain (legal) firearms to certain (legal) age groups. Gun companies were forced to find other lenders and conduct transactions through other systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Watts gets her way this time, gun owners will also be affected. A crackdown from credit card companies on \u201cghost gun\u201d parts could also prohibit consumers from using their credit cards to purchase all the parts used to build a firearm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of the op-ed, Watts calls on credit card companies to ban the sale of \u201cghost gun\u201d kits \u201cand their core components.<\/em>\u201d Watts does not elaborate on which components she considers \u201ccore,\u201d but it\u2019s likely she means receivers and barrels and perhaps triggers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visa, Mastercard, and other credit card companies have thus far not indicated whether they plan to follow Watts\u2019 plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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