US credit card giants said they will implement a new merchant category code for the nation’s gun retailers, which gun control activists say will help flag potential mass shooters and gun traffickers.

A credit card categorization code that could improve the tracking of gun sales was approved by an international panel that sets standards for the payments industry, according to New York City ...

Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images Gun control advocates are cheering a new change in the credit card industry that they say could help prevent gun violence. This week, credit card companies ...

AGs from 24 states sent a letter threatening to take action over a new merchant code for gun stores. The move follows the International Organization for Standardization's recent vote to create the ...

Code offers "significant" new tool for identifying shooters, one advocate said. A gunman in Aurora, Colorado, who killed 12 people in a mass shooting at a movie theater, in 2012, legally acquired ...

NEW YORK — A gunman in Aurora, Colorado, who killed 12 people in a mass shooting at a movie theater, in 2012, legally acquired weapons and ammunition using a credit card. So did a shooter in Orlando, ...

Gun control advocates are cheering a new change in the credit card industry that they say could help prevent gun violence. This week, credit card companies Visa, Mastercard and American Express all ...

(NEW YORK) -- A gunman in Aurora, Colorado, who killed 12 people in a mass shooting at a movie theater, in 2012, legally acquired weapons and ammunition using a credit card. So did a shooter in ...