Visa denies credit to nations largest gun shop
Visa, its everywhere you want to be, unless you want to be buying a gun from Hyatt Coin and Gun. Yes Visa, who happens to be one of Obama’s main campaign donors, decided that they were going to deny credit transactions at the Nation’s Largest Gun retailer.
Hyatt Gun Shop of Charlotte, NC, is known by their website, and through out the gun world as the Nation’s largest gun shop inside the Continental United States. With more then 7000 guns in stock every day, plus technicians and smiths to help their customers, they receive thousands of visitors. Therefore it came as an absolute shock when one of the largest credit card companies in the nation decided they would not accept “The sale of firearms or any similar product.”
The Visa processing company, Authorize.net/Cybersource, decided to send Hyatt Gun Shop in an e-mail that gun sales violated their terms agreement from the two signed four years ago, even though they told the company when they signed the contract exactly and in excruciating detail of what they did for a business. The Washington Examiner reports:
“We’ve never seen anything like this,” said Justin Anderson, Hyatt’s marketing director. He said it took a week and thousands of dollars to line up a “gun friendly” credit card processor for online sales.
The brushoff of Hyatt’s business has sparked a national boycott effort against Authorize.net and parent company CyberSource organized by the website Grass Roots North Carolina. “It looks like the small but noisy anti-gun crowd has gotten to what must be a jelly-spined PR department at CyberSource and Authorize.Net. Either that, or leadership at these companies have simply become anti-gun all on their own,” said the website in announcing the boycott.
Anderson suspects that the company, purchased by Visa in 2010, got cold feet dealing with a leading gun seller and he said that he’s heard of other gun stores being dropped. The company had no immediate comment.
The sudden move comes just two weeks after the Washington Navy Yard shootings which were followed by a plea for more gun control from President Obama.
Several Visa executives contributed to the president’s re-election campaign. Their total was $21,780, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
And they are right in the totals to President Obama, but since campaign financing is public record, those were only direct totals from Visa executives. Individuals with ties to the banking industries that fund Visa and debt card services with Visa gave upwards of the millions.
For four years Hyatt Gun Store did business with Visa. For four years their money was good enough. But now, in light of a tragic event once again involving someone on psychotropic medication, and with a police record that with the 1986 legislation should not have had a shotgun legally, they wish to say that it is Hyatt that violated the contract.
If Obama is screaming for gun control again, if companies that back him are pulling rights of purchase with gun shops with legal waiting periods already law, if Senator Feinstein is chomping at the bit to introduce a third Bradey Bill that failed miserably the first time it was implemented, if Rep. Nancy Pelosi is running around saying all veterans are mentally ill and should not have guns, do they think We the People are stupid enough not to know what they are planing?
Here is a copy of the e-mail to Hyatt from Authorize.net:
Dear Hyatt Gun Shop Inc,
Authorize.Net LLC “Authorize.Net”) has determined that the nature of your business constitutes a violation of Section 2.xiv of the Authorize.Net Acceptable Use Guidelines and Sections 3.3 and 11.3 of the Authorize.Net Service Agreement (the “Agreement”). These sections include, but are not limited to, the sale of firearms or any similar product. Accordingly, pursuant to Section 4 of the Acceptable Use Guidelines, your ability to access and use the Authorize.Net Services will be terminated on September 30, 2013.”
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