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urn: urn:us-la:rs:51:3283
citation: "R.S. 51:3283"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 51 › Chapter 68"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 2024, number: 585, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: enactment }
---

# Financial privacy

A. Except for those records kept during the regular course of a criminal investigation and prosecution, or as otherwise required by law, no government entity or official and no agent or employee of a governmental entity shall knowingly keep or cause to be kept any list, record, or registry of privately owned firearms or the owners of those firearms.

B. A payment card network shall not require or incentivize the use of a merchant category code in a manner that distinguishes a firearm retailer from other retailers.

C. A covered entity shall not assign a firearm retailer a merchant category code that distinguishes the firearm retailer from other retailers.