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Fifteen minutes.
Thats all it takes for children, felons, and people without IDs to buy illegal weapons on Facebook pages dedicated to the sale and celebration of guns.
A VentureBeat investigation has uncovered dozens of pages on Facebook where guns are for sale, including semi-automatic weapons, handguns, and silencers. While the transactions dont actually happen on Facebook, the social network is a remarkably easy way to find shady people willing to sell you a weapon no questions asked. The illegal transactions then take place in diners, dark parking lots, and isolated country roads away from the prying eyes of the feds and local police.
In Kentucky, Greenup County Sheriff Keith Cooper remembers when a call came into dispatch last October saying a 15-year-old student had been arrested on the Greenup County High School campus for carrying an unlicensed and loaded 9mm handgun to school. The boy was arrested and brought to Coopers office for an interview.
When Cooper, a former Kentucky State Trooper with a heavy Southern drawl, asked the kid where he got the gun, his reply was shocking: Facebook.
http://venturebeat.com/2014/02/26/exclusive-buying-a-gun-on-facebook-takes-15-minutes
Gungeoneers and sockpuppets defending their fetish downstream seem to think I wrote the article and 'wonder what my point is.' Funny how they don't take this tack with articles simply posted on other subjects, but I'll bite...
[font size="5"]ALL ILLEGAL ACTS WITH GUNS START WITH LEGAL ACTS WITH GUNS[/font]
Be it with a buyer or a seller.
Gun culture is flooding our country with death. Guns are part of the anchor pulling America to the bottom.
