Congressman Asks Instagram to Stop Its Users from Selling Guns

Wants them to follow the lead of other online sites

Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) on Monday asked Instagram to stop its users from selling firearms.

"A growing number of Instagram's users are conducting unregulated gun sales through Instagram's widespread mobile and Internet application," Markey wrote in a letter to the company on Monday, citing a Daily Beast report from last month.

Markey said he is concerned that "a significant number of unlawful sales of firearms may be occurring through Instagram's mobile and online services."

Comments

[montana mike]

One of the usual suspects....fuck off and die you twit.

[T. Walls]

#gunsofIG
#doyouevenlibertybro
#libertarianproblems

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Ed Markey is a moonbat.

[John Galt]

So now, by their own admission, the Democrat's secret police are surveilling all Instagram communications. Nice job, Queen Obama!

[SQRLSY One]

Some people say that I should not be allowed to own a gun, because, well, um, after all, I as an Earthling am statistically more likely to kill my Truly Beloved in a domestic spat, or myself, in a suicide, or my 2-year-old kid finds my gun blah-blah-blah than I am likely to kill an un-known home invader. May or may not be true, I have not obsessed over the statistics? To these people I want to say, "Hey, look, statistically you are a mammal, and most mammals, the VAST majority of them, do NOT contain their urge to poop and pee in public spaces, which is just way totally unsanitary, and icky to boot! Therefore, you and all of yours, MUST wear a diaper in public at all times". I am NOT your Government Almighty's statistic, fer cryin' out loud! There Are such animals as responsible gun owners!

[Zeb]

That's fucked up. That the warrant was even issued is completely fucked. But to keep going after an x-ray, digital exam and enema?
And no one will be criminally charged with anything.

[Zeb]

Oops. Wrong one.

[mfckr]

Uh oh, victimless crimes to prosecute.

[SIV]

You can buy and sell stuff on Instagram?

[John Galt]

If a ProRegressive says it is so, then it is so.

[Harvard]

Yeah. Unregulated and all. Two people engaged in commerce. Fucking crazy world.

[Agammamon]

"As a result, some sales could violate state and federal laws, such as selling "to those under 18 years old, to out of state buyers by sellers in states that have prohibitions on interstate sales or firearms, or by sellers who are declining to conduct background checks" when required, he said."

That's unpossible, we've made laws making all those things illegal.