Identify Gun Stores Act

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7352 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7352

To prohibit States from prohibiting or otherwise deterring the usage of 
      any merchant category code established by the International 
Organization for Standardization, including codes that identify firearm 
                  merchants and ammunition merchants.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 14, 2024

 Mr. Frost (for himself, Mr. Horsford, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, and Mr. 
  Moskowitz) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit States from prohibiting or otherwise deterring the usage of 
      any merchant category code established by the International 
Organization for Standardization, including codes that identify firearm 
                  merchants and ammunition merchants.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Identify Gun Stores Act''.

SEC. 2. PREEMPTION RELATING TO MERCHANT CATEGORY CODES.

    Section 5313 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting after subsection (g) the following:
    ``(h) Merchant Category Code Usage.--
            ``(1) In general.--No State may prohibit or otherwise deter 
        the usage of any merchant category code established by the 
        International Organization for Standardization, including codes 
        that identify firearm merchants and ammunition merchants.
            ``(2) Enforcement.--The Attorney General may bring a civil 
        action in the appropriate district court to enforce this 
        subsection.''.
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