Rep. Riley M. Moore

It was great to visit the welding program at James Rumsey Technical Institute in Berkeley County, West Virginia. I started my career as a welder, and it was great to get back behind the welding shield! As President Trump works to reindustrialize America, skilled workers, like welders, will be essential to building the new American economy. We need YOU to be the next generation of welders who forge our nation’s future 👨‍🏭

It was a blessing to meet Pastor Ezra Jin today following more than 9 months of unjust imprisonment by the CCP. I was proud to help lead a bipartisan effort urging @POTUS to press for his release. We must never stop fighting for our persecuted brothers and sisters in Christ!

🚨 NOW: The US House has just PASSED legislation to protect Americans' firearm purchases from being tracked by credit card companies through merchant codes, 221-201 The Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act now heads to the Senate. Get it done and sent it to POTUS! 🇺🇸

✅ House Republicans just passed @RepRileyMoore’s Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act, a win for every law-abiding gun owner. Americans shouldn't be secretly tracked by banks for exercising their Second Amendment rights. This bill shuts down backdoor gun registries while protecting Americans' financial privacy and constitutional freedoms.

Read the full press release here: rileymoore.house.gov/media/press-re…

Press Release: Congressman Riley M. Moore’s ‘Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act’ Passes U.S. House Washington, D.C. – Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed Congressman Riley M. Moore's bill, H.R. 1181, the Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act. This legislation safeguards the constitutional rights and privacy of law-abiding gun owners by prohibiting payment processors and financial institutions from using discriminatory merchant category codes (MCCs) to track firearm and ammunition purchases. Congressman Riley M. Moore released the following statement: "The Second Amendment is not a second-class right. Americans should never have their lawful firearm purchases tracked by financial institutions or payment processors. The creation of a separate merchant category code for gun stores at the behest of the Democrat-affiliated Amalgamated Bank opens the door to creating an unconstitutional backdoor gun registry and discrimination against law-abiding gun owners. My bill stops this dangerous overreach, protects consumers' financial privacy, and ensures that a backdoor federal gun registry can never be created through credit card transaction data. I'm proud the House has acted to defend both the Second Amendment and Americans' right to privacy." In 2022, the International Standards Organization approved the creation of a separate merchant category code for firearm and ammunition retailers. Merchant category codes are four-digit identifiers used by payment processors to classify businesses based on the products they sell. The creation of a distinct code for gun stores raised concerns that financial institutions could use payment data to monitor, flag, and track lawful firearm purchases, creating a backdoor gun registry without congressional authorization. As West Virginia State Treasurer, Moore successfully led the charge to ban financial institutions from implementing the firearm retailer specific merchant category code for West Virginia retailers. H.R. 1181 passed the House with the support of 132 cosponsors, including original cosponsors, Rep. Andy Barr and Richard Hudson, and is backed by leading Second Amendment organizations, including the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation, Gun Owners of America, the National Rifle Association, and Heritage Action.

🚨BREAKING🚨 The House just passed @reprileymoore's GOA-backed bill, Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act 221-201. H.R. 1181 prevents future weaponization of payment processing codes to be able to track gun store purchases!

🚨Today, my bill, H.R. 1181, the Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act, passed the House! This legislation protects Americans' privacy by ensuring firearm purchases can never be tracked through a backdoor gun registry. A win for the Second Amendment!

"The bill's premise is simple. No gun registries. Period." Thank you @RepRileyMoore for your work on the Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act.

Today, the House will vote on my bill, H.R. 1181, the Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act. With this bill, we send a clear message that Americans’ firearms purchases will never be tracked and there will never be a back door gun registry in America. Never.

The first question should be why Xbox CEO Asha Sharma was named to a Fed taskforce on Productivity and Jobs when she’s firing Americans and replacing them with H-1B workers.

Riley is correct. We cannot wait to make permanent changes to our border & immigration policies.

Cardinal Robert Sarah will speak at the European Parliament on July 15 at the invitation of lawmakers. Info: The Catholic Church in the EU

During my interview with @BreitbartNews, I discussed how the H-1B visa program is being used by major corporations to replace American workers. We need to get rid of the whole thing. It is time to put American workers first. Read the full interview here ⬇️ breitbart.com/politics/2026/…

@jabo961 Nope. It’s an X article. Just click to read.

@RepRileyMoore Surely we don't have to have a subscription to the NYT to read that, link to info please?

America is a Christian nation! This vignette of the Mayflower Compact, which is found on the first floor of the Capitol’s House wing, reminds us of that fact. The pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact in 1620. It reads: “Having undertaken for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian Faith, and honor of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first Colony in the Northern parts of Virginia; do by these presents solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God and one another, covenant, and combine ourselves together into a civil body politick.”

Please join Mina and me in praying for the repose of Senator Graham's soul and for his family and friends during this difficult time. Eternal rest grant unto him, o Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon him.

Allowing Muslim immigration is one of the most idiotic policy mistakes our country has made.

.@RepRileyMoore to @mboyle1: Legal immigration, in many ways, is actually WORSE than illegal immigration The H-1B program is being abused at levels I don’t think most understand. People who are applying, their education is sometimes fraudulent. Their qualifications are not real.

“Climate change” Lol. Ok. 👌

On June 30, @WashPost ran a piece that criticized @VP for defending Nixon’s legacy. The piece recycled the same tired arguments about Nixon that the Washington Post has made for more than 50 years, despite the fact that the evidence has proven them wrong time after time. To set the record straight, I wrote a letter to the editor. They declined to publish it, but you deserve to read it so I’m posting it here. Nixon is an American hero!