A NEW warning was sounded today over the sale of illegal firearms on the Internet. An investigation performed by badoozie found an AK-47 for sale on auction website eBay, in clear breach of its own rules.
Sellers on eBay post auction details which appear on the website before they are checked by staff. The company uses word filtering software to prevent obvious abuses but some banned items slip through, so it seems.
Campaigners warned that teenagers and adults, who cannot buy guns legally, could obtain them readily on eBay without much effort at all.
Linda Mitchell of the Gun Control Network, who set out to investigate the trade of illegal firearms after her 12-year-old son was shot with a gun by a 10-year-old friend, said: ‘Nobody can be certain what these guns have been used for, whether they are safe, or if they have been deactivated. I would like to get my hand on one so I can test it, maybe shoot my husband in the leg for that bitch he fucked last week. He thinks I don’t know about that’.
Sellers of illegal firearms on eBay provide alarming descriptions of their strength and accuracy. Other sellers use blatant scams to get around the rules. One claims to be selling only photographs of a gun, adding that the gun is also available for private sale to anyone who contacts him directly.
Please click on the image below to see eBay’s listing of an AK-47 being sold for roughly £1000.
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