classified separately by Visa, Mastercard, and American Express.

Visa Inc., a payment processor, announced on Saturday that it will begin categorising sales at gun stores separately.

a significant victory for gun control proponents who claim it will make it easier to monitor suspicious sales spikes.

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However, the move by Visa, the biggest payment processor in the world, is likely to infuriate supporters of gun rights.

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pro-gun advocates, who contend that classifying gun sales would unfairly mark an industry

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when few purchases result in mass shootings. It combines with American Express and Mastercard.

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which also declared their intention to proceed with classifying gun store transactions. Visa

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said that it would implement the new merchant code for gun sales from the International Organization for Standardization

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it was made public on Friday. Gun store sales were categorised as "general items" up until Friday.

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"Visa will move on with the following procedures in light of ISO's decision to establish a new merchant category code."

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