Visa CEO: Company will keep handling firearms purchases

Published August 8, 2019 4:14pm ET



Visa, the world’s biggest payment network, will continue handling firearms purchases that newer digital platforms have shunned, even after two mass shootings in the past weekend.

“If we start to get in the mode of being legislators, it’s a very slippery slope,” Visa CEO Alfred Kelly told CNBC in an interview. “We shouldn’t be determining what’s right or wrong in terms of people’s purchases.”

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