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Nearly 3,500 Facebook users belong to Colorado Gun Trader, a group on the social media site that helps its members buy, sell and trade guns.
Is that legal? Yes. Do gun-control advocates want it that way? No.
Two groups are pushing Facebook to crack down on gun sales on the site. And while Facebook doesn’t technically sell guns -- people can’t enter their credit card information on the site to buy one -- it can be used to put gun enthusiasts in touch with one another.
Those connections are a little too much for Mayors Against Illegal Guns. The group, co-founded by former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, is working with another group called Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America to increase pressure on Facebook. The groups are also taking aim at Instagram, the photo-sharing site owned by Facebook.
"Anybody can go to Facebook and Instagram and buy a gun online, and we’re urging Facebook to clamp down. We’re asking them to review their policies. They facilitate the sale of guns in the U.S.," said Erica Soto Lamb, a spokeswoman for Mayors Against Illegal Guns, according to VentureBeat.
Someone let me know when Moms Demand Action decides that there needs to be a crackdown on cork boards and thumbtacks. In the meantime, I'm going to pressure facebook to crack down on Moms Demand Action's use of free speech on their facebook page....
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