Glenn Beck joined Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on Thursday night to discuss Visa Inc.’s “horrifying” new plans to flag firearm sales by separately categorizing purchases at gun shops, a move that Glenn aptly described as “the next step in banning guns.”
In what’s been hailed as a major victory for gun control activists, Visa agree to adopt the International Organization for Standardization’s new set of standards by creating a special merchant category code for gun and ammunition sales.
In his appearance on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Glenn shared a letter written by Robert B. Thomson III, a senior vice president at Visa, showing that the credit card company initially pushed back on the ISO’s new rules.
“We believe that asking payment networks to serve as a moral authority by deciding which legal goods can or cannot be purchased sets a dangerous precedent,” Thomson wrote in the letter to pro-gun-control lawmakers, including Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.
Just weeks later, however, Visa had agreed to comply with the ISO’s plan to establish a new merchant category code for gun stores. So why did Visa suddenly flip?
As Glenn explained, it all comes down to pressure from America’s largest union-owned bank, the Amalgamated Bank, one of the only unionized banks in the United States and a proud proponent of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) investing.
“This is the next step in banning guns,” Glenn asserted.
“It’s horrifying!” Tucker responded after several seconds of stunned silence.
“I’m so grateful you did the reporting on this,” he told Glenn. “I’m not sure why it falls to you since we have a couple of very large daily newspapers in this country you’d think would want to report this, yet none of them did.
On a recent episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” Glenn broke down the details of this latest attack on the Second Amendment and revealed how this is a step toward something even worse than federal gun registration. Watch the video clip below for more details. Can’t watch? Download the podcast here.
* Article from: The Blaze
