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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1203114" data-attributes="member: 12952">[h=1]Credit card firm cuts off nation&#039;s No. 1 gun store --- for selling guns[/h]A subsidiary of Visa, a key Obama campaign donor, that specializes in&nbsp; credit card transactions has abruptly stopped servicing the nation’s&nbsp; largest gun store after four years because the store sells guns, a fact&nbsp; the owners never hid.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.hyattguns.com" target="_blank">Hyatt Gun Shop</a>&nbsp; of Charlotte, N.C., told Secrets that the subsidiary,&nbsp; Authorize.net/CyberSource, simply sent an email to owner Larry Hyatt to&nbsp; announce that it was suddenly breaking off the business relationship.&nbsp; The reason: “The sale of firearms or any similar product.”&nbsp;The company email said that gun sales violated a section of the&nbsp; service agreement the two signed over four years ago and after Hyatt&nbsp; went into detail about its sales and products -- and name.&nbsp;“We’ve never seen anything like this,” said Justin Anderson, Hyatt’s&nbsp; marketing director. He said it took a week and thousands of dollars to&nbsp; line up a “gun friendly” credit card processor for online sales.The brushoff of Hyatt&#039;s business has sparked a national boycott&nbsp; effort against Authorize.net and parent company CyberSource organized by&nbsp; the website <a href="http://www.grnc.org/grnc-alerts-archive/544-grnc-alert-9-24-13-authorize-net-qde-authorizesq-gun-sellers" target="_blank">Grass Roots North Carolina</a>.&nbsp; “It looks like the small but noisy anti-gun crowd has gotten to what&nbsp; must be a jelly-spined PR department at CyberSource and Authorize.Net.&nbsp; Either that, or leadership at these companies have simply become&nbsp; anti-gun all on their own,” said the website in announcing the boycott.&nbsp;Anderson suspects that the company, purchased by Visa in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/business/22visa.html?_r=0" target="_blank">2010</a>,&nbsp; got cold feet dealing with a leading gun seller and he said that he&#039;s&nbsp; heard of other gun stores being dropped. The company had no immediate&nbsp; comment.Below is the short email notice from Authorize.net: Dear Hyatt Gun Shop Inc,
 &nbsp; Authorize.Net LLC (&quot;Authorize.Net&quot;) has determined that the nature of&nbsp; your business constitutes a violation of Section 2.xiv of the&nbsp; Authorize.Net Acceptable Use Guidelines and Sections 3.3 and 11.3 of the&nbsp; Authorize.Net Service Agreement (the &quot;Agreement&quot;). These sections&nbsp; include, but are not limited to, the sale of firearms or any similar&nbsp; product. Accordingly, pursuant to Section 4 of the Acceptable Use&nbsp; Guidelines, your ability to access and use the Authorize.Net Services&nbsp; will be terminated on September 30, 2013.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1203114, member: 12952"] [h=1]Credit card firm cuts off nation's No. 1 gun store --- for selling guns[/h] A subsidiary of Visa, a key Obama campaign donor, that specializes in credit card transactions has abruptly stopped servicing the nation’s largest gun store after four years because the store sells guns, a fact the owners never hid. [URL="http://www.hyattguns.com"]Hyatt Gun Shop[/URL] of Charlotte, N.C., told Secrets that the subsidiary, Authorize.net/CyberSource, simply sent an email to owner Larry Hyatt to announce that it was suddenly breaking off the business relationship. The reason: “The sale of firearms or any similar product.” The company email said that gun sales violated a section of the service agreement the two signed over four years ago and after Hyatt went into detail about its sales and products -- and name. “We’ve never seen anything like this,” said Justin Anderson, Hyatt’s marketing director. He said it took a week and thousands of dollars to line up a “gun friendly” credit card processor for online sales. The brushoff of Hyatt's business has sparked a national boycott effort against Authorize.net and parent company CyberSource organized by the website [URL="http://www.grnc.org/grnc-alerts-archive/544-grnc-alert-9-24-13-authorize-net-qde-authorizesq-gun-sellers"]Grass Roots North Carolina[/URL]. “It looks like the small but noisy anti-gun crowd has gotten to what must be a jelly-spined PR department at CyberSource and Authorize.Net. Either that, or leadership at these companies have simply become anti-gun all on their own,” said the website in announcing the boycott. Anderson suspects that the company, purchased by Visa in [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/business/22visa.html?_r=0"]2010[/URL], got cold feet dealing with a leading gun seller and he said that he's heard of other gun stores being dropped. The company had no immediate comment. Below is the short email notice from Authorize.net: [INDENT] Dear Hyatt Gun Shop Inc, [/INDENT] Authorize.Net LLC ("Authorize.Net") has determined that the nature of your business constitutes a violation of Section 2.xiv of the Authorize.Net Acceptable Use Guidelines and Sections 3.3 and 11.3 of the Authorize.Net Service Agreement (the "Agreement"). These sections include, but are not limited to, the sale of firearms or any similar product. Accordingly, pursuant to Section 4 of the Acceptable Use Guidelines, your ability to access and use the Authorize.Net Services will be terminated on September 30, 2013. [/QUOTE]

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