Facebook’s ban on unlicensed peer-to-peer gun sales also applies to Instagram.
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“We are continuing to develop, test, and launch new products to make this experience even better for people and are updating our regulated goods policies to reflect this evolution”, she added, according to the New York Daily News.
Headquartered in California, Facebook, Inc. held its initial public offering in February 2012 and began selling stock to the public three months later, reaching an original peak market capitalization of United States dollars 104 billion.
Facebook has updated its regulated goods policy, blocking “peer-to-peer” gun sales on its social media network and Instagram.
On Friday the California-based social network, Facebook updated its policy for managing regulated goods to prohibit anybody who aren’t gun dealers from using Facebook to offer guns for sale.
In particular, people have been using Facebook forums to purchase guns without a background check.
It should certainly weed out private gun salesmen such as Scott Schmoke of Florida, who told the Times he insists on meeting people before he sells them a gun; if he “gets a bad feeling” about someone, he won’t go through with the sale. Such posts were also limited to users over the age of 18, and prohibited from including language like “no background check required” or any offer to cross state lines. The White House noted that “more than 100,000 people have been killed as a result of gun violence-and millions more have been the victim of assaults, robberies, and other crimes involving a gun”.
“We’re thankful that Facebook has listened to our call and shut down a key avenue that criminals have used to avoid background checks and buy guns with no questions asked”, Everytown said in a statement. Both Craigslist and Amazon have banned the sale of guns from their platforms, and EBay has a very strict policy when dealing in the sale and transport of weapons and ammunition.
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The National Rifle Association has yet to respond to the Facebook decision, multiple media outlets reported.
