New York Times Wants To Have Credit Card Companies Monitor Sales Of Guns And Ammo. What Could Ever Go Wrong?

The New York Times ran an article today that opens a new front in the progressive dream of restricting and eventually banning gun ownership. The story is headlined How Banks Unwittingly Finance Mass Shootings.  

The article hints that credit card companies should be forced to monitor the purchases of every card owner and act to prevent purchases that appear to a computer to look suspicious. 

The unstated part of the proposal is that if a transaction is sufficiently suspect that a bank thinks you may be a mass shooter, then to avoid corporate liability the will have to report you to law enforcement. And law enforcement will have to show up at your house wanting to question you and to take a look. 

This idea is profoundly anti-freedom and worse than that, it really can’t work. This is a rather dense New York Times reporter making the case that this is the silver bullet to stop mass shootings.