Author Topic: sticking it to ebay... (Read 508 times)

kevin.303 · « **on:** February 16, 2005, 05:15:52 PM »

this is just too funny.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7135441836

jh45gun · « **Reply #1 on:** February 16, 2005, 05:31:55 PM »

Good Grief! :?

redd7 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 16, 2005, 05:57:06 PM »

That is funny. :-D

earschplitinloudenboomer · « **Reply #3 on:** February 16, 2005, 07:49:16 PM »

I'd guess he'd be a "shoo-in" at the Pearly Gates.

1911crazy · « **Reply #4 on:** February 17, 2005, 03:07:49 AM »

It just proves that crap laws can travel around the world too. What have we become? What are we turning into? BigBill

I walked into a state goverment building here and almost thru a metal detector the other day with my little 1" pocket knife. The state police officer went nuts on me and told me to get it out of the building or he'll arrest me!!! All i can say is everyone has become CHICKEN (censored word) since 9/11. All the goverment and state building have metal detectors now?? What about us the public?? If we think about it our lives could be on the line at any given moment if we get attacked again and on the news lastnite they said another one is comming and its going to be worse than 9/11. Maybe all this crap has everyone on the edge but relax I'm not going to have a heart attack over it i just live day to day. There a fraid of my little 1" pocket knife HA!!!! BigBill

rickyp · « **Reply #5 on:** February 17, 2005, 05:13:48 AM »

I am a fire fighter with the US Navy in Washington DC.
I carry a swiss army pocket knife with me no matter where I go I use it almost every day during my course of duty.
I went in a DC government building the other day one of the guards went nuts about it. the supervise calmed him down and let me go on about my business with it still in my pocket. If they can not trust a police officer or fire fighter with a pocket knife who can you trust?

I have also been giving ebay Heck over the anti gun policy's. I even went so far as telling them they let porn, sexual toys drug stuff be listed and make no checks to make sure what is being listed is not stolen. I even told them that ebay is the best place to fence stolen goods. but nothing like that could ever happen with firearms as they must go trough a FFL and they can be traces so easy.

MGMorden · « **Reply #6 on:** February 17, 2005, 01:19:37 PM »

Quote from: BigBill

All the goverment and state building have metal detectors now??

The building I work in doesn't have metal detectors (though they do have No Concealed Weapons signs posted). It's county-level government but we do have a number of elected officials present.

Back on topic though, I also hate Ebay's policy on gun sales. They used to allow them (at least back in '97 or so when I started using Ebay), but I think they quit because of their usually less than educated userbase (people were shipping guns left and right without FFL's). While I do hate the policy (and think that they are getting a little too quick to pull auctions without checking them out), I do think that in part it's to decrease their legal liability. Heck just today I read that 4 companies (Sony, Gamestop, Walmart, and another) are being sued because a kid who played some video games (Grand Theft Auto 3 and GTA Vice City) shot 3 cops. Now they're trying to say that the video game "made him do it". In today's society we really need to pass laws protecting manufacturers, retailers, and anyone else in the retail scheme of things from stupid lawsuits like this. Then we might see more businesses willing to deal in firearms and other such items.

Racepres · « **Reply #7 on:** February 17, 2005, 02:42:28 PM »

I try not to use the big E for much and I have quit w/ paypal to support em... to add to what MGMorden said .. I'm confident that some day some smart *** will decide that since no one has to be responsible for their own actions that they may as well sue Ford (or chrysler or chevy) for their products causing all those deaths .... that oughta stir the S**t!!!!! I choose gun broker ...... Marty

rickyp · « **Reply #8 on:** February 17, 2005, 02:45:49 PM »

how about people sue the car company and the beer maker for them getting a DWI

Jack Crevalle · « **Reply #9 on:** February 18, 2005, 01:18:41 AM »

I was working in a Federal Building after the OK city bombing.

They put in X-ray machines and a metal detector at the front door to screen visitors in response to a truck bomb being driven up to the front of a building. You could still drive a truck right up against the side of this building BTW.

There's so much knee-jerk reaction BS to any of this. The principle seems to be that "We have to do something to show we're doing something!" no matter how stupid or how much it needlessly adds to the cost.

Does anybody really believe that you still couldn't smuggle a knife or fashion a weapon aboard an airliner today? Scores of people have done it, some just by accident.