ebay bans legal firearms, but not illegal stuff???

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Actually, seeds are perfectly legal. Its their product that is strictly verboten.

Someone tell me how that works.
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Sheet metal, bar stock and machine shop tools are perfectly legal. As soon as you create a full-auto AK-47 out of those parts and tools you have broken the law.

Mind you, I think either making an AK or growing your own Marijuana should be legal.
 
Call me what you will for informing ebay about a receiver be sold, but it is this kind of dealing that give the anti's their ammunition about rogue firearm dealings. This is about more than just dropping a dime on someone for petty jealousy. I can see the headlines now, "Ebay allows guns to be sold to anyone without a license."
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Oh, so it's not only jealousy; it's fear, too.

I am sorry, I am not an informer. Never had there been an informer in my family, nor ever shall ther be.
 
If the gun transfers are legal, who gives a crap? Guns are already auctioned off on many other sites.
The transfer of dope, on the other hand, would be illegal, so it would be your civic duty to drop the dime.
There is a difference between following laws, and following Ebay policy.
 
Entropy, that'd be pretty darned funny...

I reported it to Ebay (FWIW), they'll probably do nothing. I also reported it to the Vancouver BC Police, mentioning that even if selling the seeds isn't illegal, that big 'ol bush they're on probably is. That's about all any of us can do, and hope it will be acted on.
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Especially if marijuana seeds are perfectly legal in Vancouver, British Columbia. :rolleyes:
 
Roger that Balrog.
Notice I didn't say "moral" duty.
I am not for drug laws... don't confuse what I am trying to say.
As far as the law is concerned, gun auctions on Ebay are legit. It is Ebay that has put a regulation against it.
Selling dope on Ebay is not legit. It is also against Ebay regulations.
My issue is with people dropping the dime on these fellows. However, I cannot blame people for reporting the illegal transfer of controlled substances.
For as much as I don't agree with the law... it is there.
 
The hypocrisy of Ebay is astounding. It seemingly is their philosophy that you may "pack fudge" but not a gun.
 
Canada (perhaps only certain parts of Canada?) distinguishes a difference between hemp and marijuana. There's a big annual hemp festival across the border from me. Smoke all the hemp you want you're only going to get a sore throat. Cops do patrol the festival looking for marijuana users.

Sorta like non-alcoholic wine, it's legal to serve your kids.
 
Call me what you will for informing ebay about a receiver be sold, but it is this kind of dealing that give the anti's their ammunition about rogue firearm dealings. This is about more than just dropping a dime on someone for petty jealousy. I can see the headlines now, "Ebay allows guns to be sold to anyone without a license."
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Nazi.
 
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There's a big annual hemp festival across the border from me. Smoke all the hemp you want you're only going to get a sore throat. Cops do patrol the festival looking for marijuana users.
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We have one in the middle of downtown Seattle as well. Only the cops DONT patrol looking for smokers. If they catch you SELLING your busted though. I worked the gate at it one year (a friend of mine ran their security) and we were instructed that ONLY weapons, glass bottles, and ALCOHOL were to be turned away (wink wink). Never going to work it again though. Potheads tend to smell REALLY bad.
 
Hemp is to marijuana what the poppy seeds on your breakfast muffin are to opium poppies. Take a bit of time and research it.

The psychoactive ingredient in marijuana (delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol) is found in such minute quantities in industrial hemp that:

A) You could smoke yourself silly and never get enough of it in your bloodstream to render any measurable effect.

B) Extraction of quantities significant enough for processing would be so horrendously expensive, even with modern methods, that there would be no commercial viability (even for illegal use where it would end up being several hundred times more expensive than even the most expensive illegal drugs).

You can find more information here.

The fact is that industrial hemp is a great, low-cost industrial resource with an almost unlimited number of uses. At one time, it was even a big cash crop here in the U.S., and still is in many other countries. Too bad that it's been demonized by ignorant people too dumb to do even a simple internet search on the subject.

Brad
 
The fact is that industrial hemp is a great, low-cost industrial resource with an almost unlimited number of uses. At one time, it was even a big cash crop here in the U.S., and still is in many other countries. Too bad that it's been demonized by ignorant people too dumb to do even a simple internet search on the subject.
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I love it when people bring this up. It's interesting to note that the ONLY attempt in recent history in North America to grow hemp in commercial quantities resulted in a WHOLE lot of bankrupt farmers. The fact is that virtually everything that WAS made with hemp can now be made better with something else.

Something that your article DOESNT point out is that hemp and cannibus are IDENTICAL in appearance. The only way to tell the difference is a chemical test for THC. So, if i am a "hemp farmer" it's REAL hard for the inspectors to tell if i MAYBE mix a few cannibus plants in among my rows. And in Canada where Marijuana regulation is so lax they hardly ever check or even care.
 
if you don't like what someone is selling, then don't buy it, and move on. mind your own business for goodness sake. i don't understand why someone would think that it is their resposibility to tell on other people. i thought most people grew out of that stage in the third grade. if ebay has a policy against people selling (whatever item). then let them police themselves. don't go and tattle tale on someone. it is none of your business!!

Call me what you will for informing ebay about a receiver be sold, but it is this kind of dealing that give the anti's their ammunition about rogue firearm dealings. This is about more than just dropping a dime on someone for petty jealousy. I can see the headlines now, "Ebay allows guns to be sold to anyone without a license."
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as stated above, just cause ebay doesn't approve of this, doesn't make it illegal. as long as the people involved follow proper procedures ie: go through FFLs, then what is the problem?
 
Something that your article DOESNT point out is that hemp and cannibus are IDENTICAL in appearance. The only way to tell the difference is a chemical test for THC. So, if i am a "hemp farmer" it's REAL hard for the inspectors to tell if i MAYBE mix a few cannibus plants in among my rows. And in Canada where Marijuana regulation is so lax they hardly ever check or even care.
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Apparently you didn't read the paper, as it covers this very subject. Also, the reason that hemp farmers (some 400,000 of them in this country at one point) went bankrupt is because politicians passed a unilateral ban on hemp without consideration of the facts. These farmers, who had done nothing wrong, suddenly found themselves in the position of being a "paper felon". Plus, your reply sounds like you are advocating banning something because of how it looks, not what it does.

Sound familiar?

Brad
 
Brad, i was speaking about Hemp farmers in CANADA where it is perfectly legal to grow hemp. They went bankrupt because they couldnt sell their product.
 
just cause ebay doesn't approve of this, doesn't make it illegal. as long as the people involved follow proper procedures ie: go through FFLs, then what is the problem?
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In this auction, FFL not requested, or even mentioned.

It was a complete receiver that required documentation. These kind of deals are what the Million Mommers are looking for. We don't need that kind of publicity.:cuss:
 
The Nazi comments were way over the top. I THINK Swingset was joking, a play on "call me what you want, but." At least I hope so.

Around here, drug dealers tend to set themselves on fire. That's always been on my list of stupidity criteria (I have never set myself on fire.)

Is it really that impossible to cover a scent and fool a dog? Works on deer.


Is any of this on topic anymore? ;)
 
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