Facebook and its photo-sharing subsidiary, Instagram, are taking steps to block potentially illegal firearm sales facilitated by their websites after more than 230,000 people backed a petition by Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.
Facebook and Instagram will delete reported posts offering to sell guns across state lines or without background checks. The sites also will block users younger than 18 from viewing reported private gun sale posts or pages.
"People can report (potentially illegal) things to us, and, of course, any time law enforcement sees something, they can report it to us," Monika Bickert, Facebook's head of global policy management, said during a media conference call that included New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and the heads of Moms Demand Action and Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
The response Mothers Demand Action received from Facebook contrasted sharply with the lack of one from Staples after the group repeatedly asked to meet with a representative to urge the company to follow the lead of CVS, Costco, Starbucks and other retailers that bar guns from their stores. When 10 mothers went to Staples' Framingham headquarters Tuesday to deliver a petition signed by more than 12,000 people, a security guard took it and told them to leave the property. A company spokeswoman did not return a call or an email yesterday.
Jim Wallace, executive director of Northboro-based Gun Owners Action League, called the Staples petition "a little bit ludicrous" and minimized yesterday's Facebook announcement, saying, "We haven't done anything to get the human criminal element off the streets."
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