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  • This Is How People Are Using Instagram To Sell Guns

    23 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone in Business, Crime, Social
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    Woah! Instagram just got serious. No more selfies. No more sunsets – we’re talking guns baby. Instagram has made no official rule outlawing the sale of guns on their platform, so guy buyers or sellers can just scroll away on their smartphones, and they might as well be in Steve Hofmeyr’s basement.

    A quick search for #guns or #rifles #forsale will reveal an arsenal of weaponry that even the most vile dictator would be envious of.  The company that Facebook bought for $1 billion in April last year always had a reputation as a fun, friendly, tool for sharing your funnest adventures – but it’s now become a pseudo-online marketplace for weapons, where no one cares if you use a filter or not.

    A typical gun-sale post might read something like this:

     LWRC 10’ SBR FOR SALE!!! Come get it! Includes AAC suppressor tip, ergo grip, 3 magpul pmags, 2 40 round mags, bungee sling, and about 500 rounds of .556. Message me if interested.

    The price-negotiating then continues in the comments section:

    “Great setup,” a user says,

    “Asking $3000 for everything,” the seller replies. “I’m really trying to get a package deal. Don’t need want to part it all out.”

    Something tells us that this wont last long. But then, again, we said that about the war in Iraq.

    #Merica

    [Source : The Daily Beast]

     

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