-=> Quoting Dave Appel to John Perz <=-
 -> The actual purchases should not show up on credit bureau (TRW, etc)
 -> reports. Only the range of dollar amounts and prompness ao payment.
 ->
 -> Hmmn.  If that's all they're getting, I'm not quite sure why they'd
 -> want to bother checking the reports in the first case. Any of the
 -> spooks here care to comment on just what the they could deduce from
 -> such information?
 DA> Even in small gun stores that don't scan UPC codes, the credit card
 DA> company still knows, or can know, that the store is a gun store.
 DA> So the gun-purchase information may not be transmitted all the way to
 DA> TRW.  But somewhere in Visa/Mastercard/Discover's computers, is a
 DA> record that John Doe spent $700 at "Frank's Guns" on MM/DD/YY.
     The credit card slip on the last handgun I purchased at a gunshow
     (before Brady) reads "Brinks Garage" as the merchant :)
     Brian
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