rbwillnj,
I read the new policy a few days ago, and it is slightly less onerous than they initially implied in their notification letter, but not much.
from eBay:
"Ammunition
This includes live, inert, and blank ammunition, as well as any component used to make up an actual round of ammunition, such as lead bullets, brass/casings, shells, primers and gunpowder."
We already knew about live ammo, primers, and gunpowder. The rest is what hurts.
and later;
" Any of the following items, including those that are required for a gun to fire: silencers, converters (items that can be used to give a firearm automatic capability), kits that can be used to create a firearm, barrels, slides, cylinders, magazines, firing pins, choke tubes, trigger assemblies, potato guns and cannons, flares, flare launchers, flare guns, flare gun receivers, short barrels and any illegal firearm-related items."
Half that stuff was illegal anyway, so there was a very limited market for it, and most of us knew better than to even try. The variety and wide market of the parts was one thing that I really liked about eBay. So, for now, you still may be able to sell a press and a shell holder without getting your auction canceled. That's assuming that the eBay censors don't rule that since those items can be used to make ammunition, that they are also implicitly banned items. Still not a very satisfying outcome.
As for Auction Arms, you would think the reloading component sections would really be humming now. Not so. Not many items and almost no bids. Doesn't make this seller happy. I might have to put some package deals together for the GBO classified section.
