Fifteen minutes.
That’s all it takes for children 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 don’t 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 Cooper’s office for an interview.
Source: Venture Beat
Chester Moore is an award-winning wildlife journalist. He is owner of The Wildlife Journalist® and Higher Calling media properties, Editor-In-Chief of Texas Fish & Game, host of "Moore Outdoors" on Newstalk AM 560 KLVI and founder of the Kingdom Zoo Wildlife Center® and Wild Wishes® program. He was named a "Hero Of Conservation" by Field & Stream magazine in 2006, awarded "Conservationist Of The Year" by the Texas Soil & Conservation District in 2009 and given the Mossy Oak Outdoors Legacy Award in 2017. You can learn more at www.chestermoore.com
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