Gun sales on Instagram

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Do you want to buy a gun without a license? Try Instagram. There is a seemingly thriving marketplace of amateur gun sellers on the photo-sharing app. It has been recently discovered that a number of Instagramers are offering guns for sale on the site. Surprisingly they are not breaking the law for doing this.
Selling firearms also does not violate Instagram's terms of use. Oopps I got you there, you were about arguing the fact.
A quick check of a few of Instagram's gun-toting hashtags brought the above image up...

Instagram is not the only site where people buy and sell guns. People advertise firearms on Facebook and Twitter, and neither of those sites regulates posts about gun sales.
Instagram allows people to tag their photos with hashtags like "#gunsforsale," "#forsalegun" and "#gunsfortrade" while blocking other tags that are overly sexual (like "#bubblebutts") or too generic and likely to be spammed (like "#photography"). Others hashtags, such as "#thinspo" (short for "thin inspiration"), come up with a warning linking to an eating disorder support page.
Do you think something should be done about this to stop it or not? Drop your comments...

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