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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts)
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 06:24 PM Apr 2013

Facebook shuts down site of gun shop giving away AR-15

The Facebook fan page for Pittsburgh Tactical Firearm, the owner of which has been running a giveaway contest for an AR-15, has been inexplicably closed — along with a second page that the owner started as a replacement for the first.

“I still don’t know what’s going on,” gun shop owner Erik Lowry said in The Blaze. He noticed the page was shut three days ago after hundreds of the page’s 27,000 followers called and emailed to ask what had happened. He tried to put up a replacement page, but that one was shut down, too, he said, in The Blaze. Mr. Lowry said he’s since asked Facebook officials for an explanation — at least 100 times — but to no avail, The Blaze reported.

He’s left to guess what’s going on. And what he thinks is the media site Vocativ, which published a story about gun shops that were using Facebook to promote giveaways, spoke with spokespeople for the social media site. In so doing, Vocativ alerted Facebook to Mr. Lowry’s contest.

More at: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/apr/22/facebook-shuts-down-site-gun-shop-giving-away-ar-1/

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Facebook shuts down site of gun shop giving away AR-15 (Original Post) Playinghardball Apr 2013 OP
Any company selling guns under name "Tactical" should be harassed - this is not a friggin war zone. Hoyt Apr 2013 #1
Good for them etherealtruth Apr 2013 #2
 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
1. Any company selling guns under name "Tactical" should be harassed - this is not a friggin war zone.
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 06:46 PM
Apr 2013

Photo below is from their Web site and is identified as their "trainer." Now, what the heck do we need someone like that training yahoos who buy weapons from these greedy fools. I get that old and young gun cultists probably eat this crud up, but it really is time for the gun culture to start acting responsibly, rather than just talking about it.


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