eBay Restricts Gun Parts Listings Due to Virginia Tech Tragedy
As you already know, firearm-related parts are legal and are widely available in retail stores in the USA. That’s why they have always been allowed to be listed or sold on eBay.
However now, eBay decided to place more restrictions on gun-related items and will implement an updates on their Firearms, Weapons and Knives Policy in mid-August.
Any firearm part that is required for firing a gun will be prohibited from listing on eBay including antique, collectible, and sport & hunting firearms as well as ammunition. Examples of prohibited items are bullet tips, brass casings, barrels, cylinders, firing pins and trigger assemblies.
eBay decided to make this move after learning that some items purchased on eBay may have been used in the tragedy at Virginia Tech in April 2007. As I read earlier in April, the lunatic killer bought ammunition clips and huge lots of rubber duckies from eBay. His ebay id was “blazers5505″.
One of the bizarre buys by the Virginia Tech Killer.
Those guns-related items that are now permitted may only be sold on eBay U.S under the following two conditions.
• The item is sold by sellers who are located in United States and
• The item location is also in the United States.
Take note that US sellers must offer only domestic shipping on these products, since offering global shipping will make the product available in countries where these items are prohibited.
Click here to read the eBay Firearms, Weapons and Knives Policy.
Click here to read the eBay Announcement by Matt Halprin, eBay’s vice president of trust and safety.
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What a good move!
I would suggest total ban not only from eBay but all the shops selling gun in the world especially in US, just like total ban on the nuclear weapons.
PEACE!
What kaiwah said wouldn’t bring peace, only death or slavery! And he knows it, or should!
Peace comes only through being better armed! Always has, always will!
That policy change is clearly agenda-driven and has crossed the line by fraudulently and absurdly pegging it to the tragedy at Virginia Tech.
It’s political correctness gone even more insane than it already is.
I don’t care if eBay sells gun-related items or not. It’s their company and they can do whatever they want with it.
But its management leaped totally beyond a simple change in company policy when it had the unmitigated gall and indecency to attempt to foist off the reason for such a policy change onto the backs of dead students and expect those eBay users affected to be stupid and gullible enough to believe it.
eBay’s new policy is nothing more than egregious pandering to the emotionalism surrounding a heinous event, with no eBay connection specifically stated or actually existing whatsoever.
The rubber duckie thing is a sham and if he bought clips off eBay, so what?
What if he’d bought his underwear off eBay? Would they ban BVD’s? Not likely.
eBay’s flimsy, fraudulent reasoning behind this policy change is simply beneath contempt, and I’ll do everything I can to raise awareness of the now clearly obvious anti-gun policy, shallowness and crass indecency of the world’s largest online auction.
I’ve canceled my eBay and PayPal accounts and will urge everyone I know to do the same.
eBay’s not the only online auction on the Internet.
Of all the stupid things that Ebay has done this is the biggest.
If gun parts kill then they better ban all knives because they kill more times than gun parts & how about cars how many people die in car accidents every year and don’t for get rope people do hang them selfs are they going to ban these things too.
As to the clip & duckies he supposedly bought on Ebay ??????
Who to say he could have bought them from most any gun shop
or store that carries such things instead of Ebay.
For those that don’t understand a clip will not make a gun fire it only holds the ammunition.
I would like to say that PEOPLE kill GUNS don’t as a GUN is a TOOL
it can lay on a table for a thousand years & never hurt anybody.
Ebay can stick them selfs up their
I end anything withn them with this comment…………….
What if the killer had used a knife. Should ebay ban all knife transactions? The same goes for any other item that has uses that are legal.
Ebay has chosen to pander to people without reason rather than use common sense.
Goodbye forever Ebay.
MAKE A STAND AGAINST THIS.
MY INERT BULLET BUSINESS IS IN RUINS, THE STUFF I SELL CANNOT BE RENDERED LIVE IN ANY CONTEXT!!! SIGN MY PETITION!!!
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/AGAINSTEBAYGUNBAN
JONATHAN
EX EBAY MEMBER