Gun dealers hiding on Facebook
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The New York Times reveals how shady gun dealers are using Facebook for their businesses.
Facebook, with more than one billion users worldwide, is increasingly being used by shady gun dealers who find it easy to hide in this sprawling and lightly policed virtual marketplace. And they are not just individuals skirting gun-control laws to sell a pistol or rifle. Facebook groups have been used to trade antiaircraft weapons, grenades, heavy machine guns and guided missiles in battleground regions of the Middle East, according to a report in The Times.
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D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.