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Gun-rights backers call credit-card plan a step toward national registry
Second Amendment advocacy organizations are blasting the major credit-card companies over their plan to distinguish gun purchases in their payment processors, panning the idea as a step toward a database of U.S. gun owners. Visa Inc. announced over the weekend that it will begin to categorize separately sales at gun shops, which gun-control advocates say…
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AFGE move to ‘abolish’ labor union for ICE officers spurs call for probe
A key House lawmaker is demanding answers after a major labor union with ties to President Biden took steps to abolish the National ICE Council, which represents thousands of officers at Homeland Security’s deportation agency. Rep. Michael Cloud said the move by the American Federation of Government Employees appears to be retaliation against the ICE…