Ebay will now allow sales of gun parts and accessories.

[powderman]

eBay Reversed its Gun Policy: Selling gun parts and accessories again    Gun enthusiasts who also enjoy the pleasures of online shopping may have noticed that gun parts and accessories are once again being sold on shopping website eBay. Although Guns.com just got wind of this, eBay had actually quietly removed its four-year-ban on firearms to permit gun part and accessory transactions last December.

eBay spokeswoman Amanda Miller said via email the company wanted to "give sellers opportunities to offer more products in the hunting category," so the company lifted the restriction on gun parts and accessories that are legal to sell in the U.S. to, more or less, compete with other online and offline stores.

As of now, according to eBay's guidelines, items such as en bloc clips, barrels, bolts, choke tubes, firing pins, hammers, 10-round magazines, slides and trigger assemblies can be sold and bought under restricted circumstances.

While speed loaders, stripper clips, magazine holders, manuals and non-pneumatic spear guns can be sold and bought no problem.

Back in 2007, vice president of Global Safety and Security Matt Halprin announced on eBay that the company would ban the sales of firearm parts and "place more restrictions around gun-related items." Evidently, eBay got nervous after media sources discovered that Seung-Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech shooter, purchased some of his bullets through eBay.

Although the ban of the aforementioned items has been lifted, selling live ammunition through eBay is still strictly prohibited.



For eBay's official guidelines on buying and selling firearms parts and accessories, click here.

http://www.guns.com/ebay-flip-flops-...licy-7740.html

[dstegjas]

That's good to hear. I never really understood their reasoning behind that decision in the first place. Now I just wish they would take the max $$$ limit off before you have to give your bank account information to them.


Jim

[Mxpe78a]

Too late EBay,  there are other better sites that deal in these items. Don't need the over priced EBay.

[yellowtail3]

Progress, but not quite there yet if I can't buy a gun.
 
I sold a Hi-Power on Craigslist once; actually, sold/traded for a 336. It got flagged off a couple times, but then I just disguised to posting so that gun grabbers wouldn't recognize it, but gun owners would... something like, "blue steel & wood hi-power fishing rig in 9mm" or something like that. It worked.

[OldSchoolRanger]

Let's face it, the only reason that ebay relented, is because they realized that they were losing a lot of money.  It was one of those, I'm going to cut off my nose to spite my face decisions.

Personally, I think the parts sold on ebay are overpriced, but I noticed a few GB members are  making out well.  More power to them.

[gypsyman]

YT3, sure hope that 9mm fishing rig was sold in state. Could be a felony if sold out of state and not gone thru a dealer. gypsyman