Judging Freedom - National Registry of Gun Owners_

Episode Date: September 13, 2022

'It's about creating a national registry of gun owners': NRA slams credit card firms for 'bowing to anti-gun politicians' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11203809/Credit-card-firms-CODE-purchases-gun-retailers-track-firearms-NRA-slams-move.html #secondamendment #2ASee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hi everyone, Judge Andrew Napolitano here for Judging Freedom. Today is Tuesday, September 13, 2022. It's about 1055 in the morning. day, Visa, MasterCard, and American Express all announced that they will soon begin coding purchases at gun shops. What does that mean? Well, when you use your credit card to buy food at the supermarket, it's coded as groceries. If you use your credit card to buy gas at the gas station, it's coded as fuel. If you use your credit card to buy clothing online or in person, it's coded as clothing. But the credit card companies have never coded purchases at a gun shop, and that's what they're going to start doing. So it won't say what you purchased, but it will say that you purchased something. You could buy $2,000. You could buy a safe worth $2,000, a gun safe.

You could buy $2,000 worth of gun safety lessons, or you could buy $2,000 worth of rifles and ammunition. The code will just say gun shop. What does this mean? This means that the feds can subpoena this under some sort of a pretext. Right now, if you buy a gun in New Jersey, very heavily regulated anti-gun state, not only does the state have a record of it, you need the state's permission. Of course, that's hogwash. Why do you need permission to exercise a fundamental liberty? But that's where we are in New Jersey today. You buy a gun in Texas, it's like buying a ham sandwich. Not only do you not need the state's permission, the state doesn't know about it.

But in neither case, the freedom-oriented Texas, the socialist-oriented New Jersey, do the feds know about it? Until now, the feds will find a way to subpoena records at Amex, Visa, and MasterCard under some pretext so they can find out who owns guns. This will create a national gun registry. There's absolutely no authority whatsoever for it under the Constitution. It is unconstitutional for the federal government to regulate the sale of guns or even to become aware of the sale of guns. How did this come about? Again, big state governors, New York, New Jersey, California, which have huge state pension funds. The pension funds own shares of stock in the credit card companies. They're liberal. They're super liberal governors pressured the credit card companies

threatening to sell the stock owned by the pension funds to do this, and the credit card companies caved. These three credit card companies, and we all use these cards almost every day, have never been involved in social activism before, and they are right now. This is unconstitutional and it needs to be stopped. The feds come knocking on your door and say, hi, we want to see your guns. Ask them for a search warrant. They won't have it. Say, have a nice day and close the door. And then call your local police and say, some strange guy carrying a gun was just knocking at my front door. That'll put a stop to this. Judge Napolitano for judging

freedom.