Laws taking effect Monday in California and Tennessee highlight the nation's stark divide over guns: While the former is looking to help banks track potentially suspicious gun purchases in hopes of thwarting mass shootings and other firearm-related homicides, the latter is seeking to prohibit the practice.
'We view this as a first step by gun-control supporters to restrict the lawful commerce in firearms,' Lawrence Keane, senior vice president of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, told the Associated Press. California's measure coincides with a separate state law in Tennessee that bans the use of firearm-specific merchant codes, with the National Rifle Association lauding it as protecting the financial privacy of gun owners.
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