Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act
Official title: To prohibit payment card networks and covered entities from requiring the use of or assigning merchant category codes that distinguish a firearms retailer from… Show full official titleShow less
Official title: To prohibit payment card networks and covered entities from requiring the use of or assigning merchant category codes that distinguish a firearms retailer from general-merchandise retailer or sporting-goods retailer, and for other purposes.
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Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act
This bill prohibits payment card networks from using merchant codes that distinguish firearms retailers from other retailers.
The Department of Justice must enforce this bill and report annually on the resulting investigations and cases.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 7450: Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act. 118th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/118-HR-7450/
"H.R. 7450: Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act." 118th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/118-HR-7450/.
H.R. 7450, 118th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/118-HR-7450/.
[H.R. 7450: Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act](https://openamerica.io/bill/118-HR-7450/)