Indi­ana out­laws cred­it card com­pa­nies using codes to track firearms pur­chas­es

(The Cen­ter Square) – Indi­ana has joined a small group of states that have made it a crime for banks and cred­it card com­pa­nies to track pur­chas­es of guns and ammu­ni­tion through the use of a spe­cial code.
Ear­li­er this month, Gov. Eric Hol­comb signed House Bill 1084 into law. The leg­is­la­tion bars finan­cial ser­vice com­pa­nies from declin­ing a trans­ac­tion tied to a mer­chant cat­e­go­ry code des­ig­nat­ed for firearms prod­ucts. Cred­it card com­pa­nies use the codes to indi­cat …