-> Credit card companies *do* classify types of merchants.  One year,
-> I got a summary on my last statement of the year that showed how much
-> I spent at each 'type' of store/merchant.
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-> Even in small gun stores that don't scan UPC codes, the credit card
-> company still knows, or can know, that the store is a gun store.
->
-> So the gun-purchase information may not be transmitted all the way to
-> TRW.  But somewhere in Visa/Mastercard/Discover's computers, is a
-> record that John Doe spent $700 at "Frank's Guns" on MM/DD/YY.
Thanks for posting this very interesting information.
Regards
John
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