Facebook Moves to Ban Private Gun Sales on Its Site

Re:Facebook Moves to Ban Private Gun Sales on Its Site by gravypod on Friday January 29, 2016 @07:29PM (#10999730)

Yes, but these sales should be otherwise legal with records of the transaction now kept by Facebook.

Most states require you to show firearms purchaser IDs, called FID in my home state as well as a drivers license.

To acquire a FID, you need to go through a background check. This is how you are meant to know if the person is "safe to sell to".

If people in state X have a problem with that, then they should get together and find a solution to it.

Until then I don't think I can justify to myself censoring an otherwise completely legal discussion, especially when such a discussion can be used as a record of a sale that would otherwise not be present.

That's just my two cents.

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Re:Facebook Moves to Ban Private Gun Sales on Its Site by refurb on Friday January 29, 2016 @07:34PM (#10999756)

Most states require you to show firearms purchaser IDs

Minor point, but there aren't that many states that have firearm purchaser IDs. NY, NJ, MA, IL are a few, but most states don't require anything more than a driver's license.

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Re:Facebook Moves to Ban Private Gun Sales on Its Site by gravypod on Friday January 29, 2016 @07:37PM (#10999771)

That's why I did say "If people in state X have a problem with that, then they should get together and find a solution to it."

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Re:Facebook Moves to Ban Private Gun Sales on Its Site by aggieben on Saturday January 30, 2016 @10:49AM (#11002246)

I had to re-read this about three times to figure out that I agree with you ;-) The "yes, but..." really threw me off.

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