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Re:Introducing Marketplace: Buy and Sell with Your Local Com... by daxorid on Monday October 03, 2016 @12:17PM (#12628723)
This is exactly the opposite of my experience. FB has been extremely successful in shutting down any and all local firearms sales groups. It was the impetus behind my own decision to boycott Facebook permanently.
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Re:Introducing Marketplace: Buy and Sell with Your Local Com... by backtoyoujim on Monday October 03, 2016 @01:33PM (#12629506)
My guess is that Facebook is responding to locals in a community that use the tools to report firearm sales.

Using a person to purchase firearms for a person who can't get them is called a straw purchase.

Maybe advertising something other than a gun to sell a gun should be covered under straw purchase.

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