As Facebook Bans Gun Sales Gun Traders Respond by Creating New Websites

(N.Morgan) Facebook has barred the selling and trading of guns on their site and in response, gun traders are hurrying to create new websites, so they can have a platform for gun trades/sales. With gun rights and safety registering as a hot-button issue on the U.S. presidential campaign trail after several mass shootings last year, Facebook has announced on Friday it would no longer allow users to arrange private gun sales via the site.

The reaction to this latest push of gun control has been swift among some Facebook gun trader groups, hundreds of which are based in the United States. Some of them immediately began advertising other gun-dealing websites.

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Posted in a chat room outside Facebook on the Firearms Enthusiasts Club website, users complained their gun trading groups had been deleted from Facebook and urged others to spread the word about their site.

“I just lost Cheap Guns Minnesota which had close to 18,000 members,” said a user by the name of “The Guard Dog.” “So PLEASE spread the word about this site to every group in EVERY state.”, one poster compplained.

The administrator of the Facebook group Central Florida Gun Talk changed its name to Central Florida on Monday and directed the group’s 2,055 members to another site outside Facebook set up quickly in response to the ban.

Another Facebook user posted that the gun community had “grown dependent on Facebook” and the ban “will backfire” by forcing gun traders to unmonitored sites where users share less information about themselves.

Facebook users contacted directly by Reuters did not respond to requests for comment.

Monika Bickert, Facebook’s head of global policy management, claimed in an interview that gun group administrators were notified of the new policy ahead of its enforcement.

“We have to spend a lot of time thinking through new policies,” she stated, noting that 80 percent of Facebook’s 1.6 billion users reside outside the United States and Canada.

Bickert went on to say that  Facebook will rely solely on user reports when deciding which posts, groups and accounts to delete or restrict. The company gets about a million user reports a day

Bickert said Facebook’s community operations team decides whether to remove reported content including terrorist activity, cyber-bullying and nudity, in addition to private gun sales.