Another Gun Control Tactic

Sebastian points to an NSSF alert concerning some financial shenanigans apparently designed to hinder gun dealers' ability to do business:

Citi Merchant Services and First Data Corp. are refusing to process any credit card transactions between federally licensed firearms retailers, distributors and manufacturers -- a move which will severely limit available inventory of firearms and ammunition to military, law enforcement and law-abiding Americans.

The first company to be affected by this decision appears to be firearms distributor CDNN Sports Inc.

Not only did they refuse to do these transactions, they aren't going to do any in the future, firearms or no.

This is total crap. If I still had a Citi card, I'd cancel it.

Yes, I know they're different companies, but they are branches of the same beast. Share the name, share the fame.

Another thought - once they channel all gun dealers to one card processing program, how hard would it be to then close that one program down?

UPDATE: More here, here, and here, where Joe notes:

Years ago, when I first created Modern Ballistics, I tried to get a
merchant account for processing credit cards. I had one a few years earlier
when was selling software to software developers instead of gun owners and
I figured it wouldn't be a problem. I sent in my application and to my surprise
they turned me down. At first they wouldn't tell me why. But after much
calling and pestering them they finally told me it was because of my product.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, especially where gun rights are concerned.

UPDATE 2: More from David Hardy.

UPDATE 3: Say Uncle has Citi's tapdance response.