Selfies and food shots may flood your homepage, but Instagram is also used for selling guns—legally. From social media to bitcoins, how are our electronic habits changing the way we do business?
Not just for letting people know what you're eating! Illegal arms dealers, forced out of Craigslist, have turned to the social photography app to market their wares. And according to a new report from The Daily Beast, it's largely legal.
It's a federal crime to sell firearms to people prohibited from owning them, and to buy from a federal firearms dealer on behalf of someone else. But that's it. Person-to-person transactions, online or otherwise, aren't regulated on a federal level, and although background checks are encouraged before a sale is finalized, mandatory checks aren't the law of the land. Most gun laws are left up to the states, leaving plenty to slip under the radar and onto the internet.
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