internet gun site censorship?

lemaymiami · Oct 10, 2021

Attempted several times today to visit aimsurplus.com.... both by entering it myself and using my address book on line... Each time I get a single word response... "Forbidden 403" and yet I'm still getting their sales emails (on their mailing list..). I'm not particularly skilled on the computer (in fact, my kids and grandkids are my tech experts...)... can anyone tell me what's going on?

badkarmamib · Oct 10, 2021

Comes up fine for me. Make sure you are NOT putting a "www." in front of the aimsurplus.com

Mars5l · Oct 10, 2021

Are you using public Wi-Fi?

rhodester · Oct 10, 2021

Same thing happened to me. Had to try several times to get through. ???

howlnmad · Oct 10, 2021

It works fine for me.

rbernie · Oct 10, 2021

The default site is accessed via https, and for some reason their redirect from http to https isn't working. It's not censorship - it's a technical glitch on their site. Just go https instead of defaulting to http.

https://www.aimsurplus.com

hso · Oct 10, 2021

Looks ok.

gobsauce · Oct 10, 2021

Forbidden 403 is an error code. Has nothing to do with censorship. Here's a brief article explaining what it means:

https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/what-is-403-forbidden-error-and-how-to-fix-it

1942bull · Oct 10, 2021

What it is and how to fix it.

https://www.allconnect.com/blog/403-forbidden-error-explained

bdickens · Oct 11, 2021

People get way too wound around the axle about way too little.

lemaymiami · Oct 11, 2021

Glad to hear that it’s a technical problem and not something sinister. Appreciate the feedback

DoubleMag · Oct 11, 2021

bdickens said:
People get way too wound around the axle about way too little.

I agree but in this case it's simply , don't know but want to know IMHO.

Also one & all I've seen the HERE, and had to do the stupid capctha thingie. In these picture how many sidewalks are there, oops, how many redlights. Then sometimes even a THIRD time. All the while, I M already logged in (???)

Waveski · Oct 11, 2021

bdickens said:
People get way too wound around the axle about way too little.

The OP came here with a reasonable inquiry. I don't sense that he was wound around any axle.

I believe that here are quite a few users of this forum that would not rank high when it comes to computer skills. Count me in that group.
Nothing wrong with seeking help , nothing at all.

taliv · Oct 11, 2021

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