TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jun 27, 2024

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti has sent a letter to three of the nation’s leading credit card financial institutions warning them of the need to comply with the “Tennessee Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act,” by July 1. The letter, sent to American Express, Mastercard and Visa, asks them to outline how they will comply with the law, which prohibits the use of merchant category codes to target firearms dealers. In other action this week, Skrmetti and Secretary of State Tre Hargett urged Tennesseans to remain vigilant against the rising threat of celebrity scams, whereby the name or likeness of a celebrity is used to scam consumers.