{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://clyde.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=437", "CLYDE: Categorizing Firearm Sales Creates National Gun Registry", "2022-09-15", "2022", "2022-09", "Republican", "House", "GA", "Andrew S. Clyde", "C001116", "clyde.house.gov", "clyde", "https://clyde.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 Today, Congressman Andrew Clyde (GA-09) released the following statement regarding plans by major credit card companies to separately categorize gun and ammunition retailers.\n\n\u201cTargeting gun-related purchases is a direct affront to the Second Amendment and presents the latest unconstitutional attempt to undermine, attack, and vilify law-abiding gun owners. Furthermore, instituting a separate merchant category code for firearm transactions allows credit card companies to establish a national gun registry. Combined with the ATF\u2019s illegal registry of nearly one billion firearm records, this unlawful data is a prerequisite for confiscation \u2014 permitting the weaponization and disarmament of gun owners across the nation.\n\n\u201cAs an unapologetic supporter and defender of Second Amendment liberties, I refuse to silently stand by while corporations shamelessly do the bidding of anti-gun activists. In the near future, I will introduce legislation to safeguard Americans\u2019 constitutionally protected firearm purchases from corporations\u2019 tyrannical tracking measures.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:08:33Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://clyde.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=437"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8212621323764324, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}