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Zellnor Myrie: “If you sell guns or if you sell ammunition, you do not have…”

Featuring: Zellnor Myrie, Democratic | New York State Senate, District 20

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John Jay College Conversation with State Senator Zellnor Myrie and President Carol Mason

Published | Video Starts at 20:48

… shopping at restaurants, the credit card companies only know you're at those things because it has an mcc. So everything has an mcc. Wig shops, candy shops, coat shops. But If you sell guns or if you sell ammunition, you do not have an mcc. And that has been a deliberate position of the industry up until very recently. Last year, the international organization responsible for MCC said, we're going to make one for ammunition and gun shops, and we will allow for you guys to do it. (20:48–20:54)

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Asserts that gun and ammunition sales do not have a merchant category code (MCC).

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