Facebook, Instagram give dodgy online gun sales the BULLET

The way Moms Demand Action (stupid name BTW) carry on you'd think it was otherwise impossible to buy firearms illegally. Every felon knows places where you can buy firearms illegally. There are also plenty of "legitimate" dealers who aren't averse to the odd under the counter sale.

Yes stopping this sort of trade can't be a bad thing, but I don't suppose it accounts for a significant portion of illegal firearms sales.

There are *legal* gun sales online?

Facepalm.

Maybe they should address the core issue

A society awash with guns will always have 'sales' however contrived.

It's not the mechanism (website) that's the problem, it's the widespread availability of the guns themselves.

AC because of the gun nut backlash.

Usual nonsense.

There's no difference in the legal obligation on the gun dealer to make the appropriate checks simply due to the advertising being online as described in the article. Certainly it gives them a wider potential audience but this is the typical "blame the internet" response. Any substantial offence is the same and would be committed if they'd met in a bar or via a 5x3" card posted in the customer notices secton at the local newsstand.

It would be like complaining that paved roads enabled people to travel further and sell more guns and blaming the highways authorities for facilitating crime. That's leaving out the issue of the death rate on the roads...

It's a start

Next they need to tackle the sunglasses/trainers spam.

An addition to the drop-down menu -- "report this fucker as a serial spammer".

There are mods on some groups that are good at putting blocks on spammers but some groups don't give toss (and people go elsewhere).

""Anyone who couldn't pass a background check – for instance, a domestic abuser or a felon – can just log on to the social media gun show on Facebook or Instagram and find a private seller," the Moms Demand Action web page on the subject alleges. "In fact, you have to provide more information to create a Facebook account than you do to complete a gun sale or trade initiated online.""

Let the 'mericans kill themselves! Honestly, no one will care less!

They don't even care for each other, so don't be upset when sanity tells you they deserve the outcome.

Don't f*ck the devil then complain he's given you a dose.

The following statement from this article is patently false

and were we in the UK instead of the US would likely land you a defamation suit:

By arranging sales in this way, gun dealers can flout various state and federal firearms regulations, such as laws requiring gun buyers to show identification, or those forbidding sales of guns to minors.

Federally licensed firearms dealers are required to adhere to the same sales regime regardless of the location of the transaction. They must submit the sale through the instant background check and keep the appropriate record of the transaction. There is no Gun Show Loophole for licensed dealers. The so-called loophole is that if you are at a gun show you are more likely to run into private sellers than merely walking around the mall. Private sellers have never been and are not now legally required to run background checks on gun sales by the federal government.