Banks Devising Ways to ID Mass Shooters Before They Strike

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Banks are developing technology to identify potential mass shooters, according to a CEO backing the push to get credit-card companies to more closely track gun purchases.

“Detection scenarios” are in the works that, if triggered, would prompt banks to file a Suspicious Activity Report to the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, Amalgamated Bank Chief Executive Officer Priscilla Sims Brown said at the New York Times DealBook conference Wednesday.

“We’re at the very early stages of this. This particular code just got approved in October, so those detection scenarios are still being brought together,” Brown said. “But as this is implemented, those scenarios will be used.”

The strategy would mirror ways banks try to identify and stop fraudsters from using customers’ funds.

The International Organization for Standardization approved a new merchant category code earlier this year that banks will use when processing transactions for gun and ammunition stores after Amalgamated submitted an application on the matter. Gun-control advocates were quick to celebrate the move, arguing it would help banks flag suspicious activity at these retailers.

While major payment networks have said they would adopt the new code, some have argued it won’t have its intended effect. Visa Inc., for example, has said it doesn’t have access to data showing the products consumers are actually buying. That means the network and its banking partners would have no idea if a gun-store customer is purchasing an automatic rifle or safety equipment.

Banks, too, have faced pressure from Congress over what they plan to do with the new codes. Some conservative policymakers have said they’re concerned lenders will use the data to create an unofficial list of firearm owners in the U.S., which certain government agencies are prohibited from doing.

Banks already file thousands of suspicious activity reports every year as they detect a litany of potential misdeeds by customers. The new codes should mean they treat the issue of tracking gun purchases no differently, Brown said.

“What I’m hearing from other banks is that they have been honoring this process and this system, filing Suspicious Activity Reports across a myriad of industries to stop a myriad of crimes, or at least alert authorizes of them,” she said. “And I have every confidence that banks are going to do the same thing here.”

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5 Comments

  1. Guns Up December 1, 2022 at 11:32

    Pay in cash, go get cash form the money machine or bank and and pay in cash. Its that simple! Can the law go post facto ?

    • ralph k December 1, 2022 at 12:41

      BTW, the banks are now keeping track of your cash withdrawals and most have decreased the amounts available daily at ATMs. Some banks even question people about the reason for your cash withdrawals even though they have no right to do so. All the more reason to have some on hand, especially if the banking system goes offline.

  2. mike December 1, 2022 at 14:06

    So no word on MSM about JB signing EO to switch to all digital currency in June 2023. If this happens not only will you be taxed on every transaction but your purchases can be scrutinized. Even denied. Gun owners will be treated like terrorists. God help us cuz politicians wont you can bet on that.

  3. GK December 1, 2022 at 14:36

    And so it begins…This is one of the legacies of 9/11 that we should never have allowed.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_Security_Alliance_Council
    Enjoy!

  4. Chef December 2, 2022 at 08:26

    WTF kind of name is that for an agency? More evidence of a completely out of control bureaucracy answerable to nobody. Rome 2.0.

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