Missouri Senate bill would ban keeping lists of privately-owned firearms

By: Erin Hynes

Outlets: Missouri Independent

Published: February 10, 2026

Words: 275

Last Updated: 3 weeks ago

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Twenty states have enacted laws prohibiting the use of unique merchant category codes to distinguish firearm purchases, and Missouri could be the 21st.

State Sen. Jill Carter, a Republican from Granby, presented legislation to a Senate committee Monday that would create the “Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act.”

The bill prohibits government entities from keeping a list, record or registry of privately-owned firearms. Records may be kept during a criminal investigation and prosecution on gun ownership. …

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