Gun Sales Blocked On Facebook (FB) For Minors

Recently, a debate is started about Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) that it is becoming a hub for gun sales. So yesterday, the company took measures to legalize gun sales on its site and on Instagram under pressure from advocacy groups and law enforcement group. For example, pages advertising guns for sale will be watched over from minors.

A Louisiana seller posted on the social network that a raspberry-colored Taurus pistol is available for $239.95, a DoubleStar AR-15 can be sold for $650 and a Bushmaster M4 is available for $1,200. “About 550 guns are available at their stores.

The company don’t want to be recognized as a private gun sale point to its users, so it has taken this step to satisfy users and resolved this matter. This announcement also makes happy gun control groups. Some objectives will be achieved through these changes, according to president of one of the largest gun control groups called the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Daniel Gross.

However, there are some high profile Internet sites that have taken much strict measures. All trading of firearms are totally banned by eBay site, similarly the informal community website for all sorts of transactions named Craigslist have done the same. They took this step in 1999 to ban all guns as part of their promise to being an accountable online site, according to an eBay spokesman, Ryan Moore.

Though Instagram and Facebook are not trading marketplace but sales posts can provide ways to create a framework for offline transactions as site has billion of users at present.
Last year in November, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO received a letter from Eric T. Schneiderman, the New York attorney general. Schneiderman wrote that a number of groups are seen through a fresh evaluation of Facebook in which users advertised the trading of handguns, shotguns, gun parts, rifles and assault rifles.

But Facebook replied that it has to manage the needs of all its members.