If you are using SQUARE to process payments, you might want to consider using another vendor.
No matter where you stand on guns, this is a very very bad thing. There is no way the government should be dictating who purchases legal items via legal channels.
From the article:
Last summer, around the same time the U.S. Department of Justice’s Operation Choke Point began pressuring banks to drop customers who buy or sell firearms, tobacco and other goods considered “not acceptable” by the Obama administration, Square quietly changed its terms of agreement.
Square TOS: https://squareup.com/legal/ua
"By creating a Square Account, you also confirm that you will not accept payments in connection with the following businesses or business activities:
...
(23) sales of (i) firearms, firearm parts or hardware, and ammunition; or (ii) weapons and other devices designed to cause physical injury"
More: For Gun Shop Owners, It?s No Longer Hip to Be ?Square?
No matter where you stand on guns, this is a very very bad thing. There is no way the government should be dictating who purchases legal items via legal channels.
From the article:
Last summer, around the same time the U.S. Department of Justice’s Operation Choke Point began pressuring banks to drop customers who buy or sell firearms, tobacco and other goods considered “not acceptable” by the Obama administration, Square quietly changed its terms of agreement.
Square TOS: https://squareup.com/legal/ua
"By creating a Square Account, you also confirm that you will not accept payments in connection with the following businesses or business activities:
...
(23) sales of (i) firearms, firearm parts or hardware, and ammunition; or (ii) weapons and other devices designed to cause physical injury"
More: For Gun Shop Owners, It?s No Longer Hip to Be ?Square?