Citi Merchant Services are refusing to process for CDNN

**PA Highlander** · January 8th, 2008, 08:36 AM

Found this over on THR:

From the National Shooting Sports Federation (NSSF) "Bullet Points" 7 JAN 2008:

CREDIT CARD PROCESSING COMPANY REJECTS FIREARMS INDUSTRY

REFUSES TO PROCESS TRANSACTIONS . . . Citi Merchant Services and First Data Corp. are refusing to process any credit card transactions between federally licensed firearms retailers, distributors and manufacturers -- a move which will severely limit available inventory of firearms and ammunition to military, law enforcement and law-abiding Americans.

The first company to be affected by this decision appears to be firearms distributor CDNN Sports Inc.

"We were contacted recently by First Data/Citi Merchant Services by a June Rivera-Mantilla stating that we were terminated and funds were being seized for selling firearms in a non-face-to-face transaction," said Charlie Crawford, president of CDNN Sports Inc. "Although perfectly legal, we were also informed that no transactions would be processed in the future, even for non-firearms. I find this very frightening."

To voice your concern to Citi Merchant Services and First Data Corp., please contact June Rivera-Mantilla at 631-683-7734 or her supervisor Robert Tenenbaum at 631-683-6570.

To change to an NSSF-affiliated credit card processing program, contact Payment Alliance International at 1-866-371-2273 (ext. 1131).
They claim that they cannot monitor transactions, but somehow know that there was a violation of the Gun Control Act.

Link to full story and copy of letter from Citi to CDNN Sports, Inc.http://www.nssf.org/news/fromBP.cfm?BPseq=704

**MarcS** · January 8th, 2008, 06:24 PM

If i was as fucked as citibank is financially after the housing market debacle, I wouldn't be doing anything to risk a boycott right about now. Citibank is actually so low on liquid assets right now they're actually restricting wire transfers and ATM withdraws in some locations.

I canceled my Citibank AmEx a couple months ago and got a Chase Freedom card. Much better cash rewards. If it turns out that this isn't some mistake, I'd encourage all of you to do the same.

**Kenshin** · January 8th, 2008, 07:18 PM

I wonder if this is true... That would destroy your ability to use your card at Walmart, Dicks, etc. Any place that has guns. I dont think they would do this that would be plain stupid. But if so as soon as i pay off my card i would switch and ill give them the exact reason why I'm changing.