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Myself included, few people donate to websites like this. We’d all much rather get something tangible for our money and support our favorite site at the same time anyways. The problem is that we forget.
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Discussion posts are different. But 24 hours is a reasonable amount of time to expect someone who posts an item for sale, or a wanted to buy ad to respond to an interested party. If you’re not prepared to respond, don’t post until you can attend to it. Or if its going to be longer than that, post it in your ad. If your items sells, delete it!
At this site we’ll stick with a two strike rule as the terms of use you agreed to when you joining address. If you ignore someone who sends you a message or posts a response about interest to your ad over 24 hours, it will be removed shortly after that or when the admin gets around to it. The second time a member does the same thing, they will be removed.
You can try to rejoin if your account is removed. You may or may not get approved depending on the circumstance.
Source: Facebook to Use Image Recognition Software to Crackdown on Gun Sellers?
Facebook. The social network. A hotbed for gun buying and selling. Still.
That’s correct, even with all sorts of high tech ways to monitor its users, Facebook is still a preferred platform for many gun owners to transfer, buy, sell and trade firearms. I’m sure you’re wondering, How can that be? Didn’t Facebook ban private person-to-person sales earlier this year?
Yes, it did. And anti-gunners gleefully celebrated the decision, suggesting that it was a major victory for the gun-control movement.
“Moms are grateful for Facebook’s leadership today in announcing that they will end all unlicensed gun sales arranged on their platforms,” said Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, following the February announcement.
“Two years ago, our campaign to get Facebook to change how their platforms host firearm sales resulted in nine new policies to curb children’s exposure to guns and to clarify state laws around selling and buying guns online,” continued Watts.
“Our continued relationship with Facebook resulted in today’s even stronger stance, which will prevent dangerous people from getting guns and save American lives,” said Watts.
But, what we’re seeing now is that although Facebook banned gun sales in principle, in practice it’s virtually done nothing to enforce the new rule. Well, that’s not entirely true. It relies on “community policing” to enforce the ban. What does that mean? It means it’s relying on users to report posts that have guns for sale in them.
“We rely on reports from our community of 1.5 billion people to help us enforce our community standards which prohibit any attempts by unauthorized dealers to purchase, sell, or trade firearms on our site,” said a Facebook spokesperson to Forbes. “Any piece of content on Facebook including posts, photos, videos, and messages can be reported. When something is reported to us, our team investigates and removes any content that violates our terms.”
Ethics, unlike laws, are specific to each individual. Every hunter must develop his own set of rules for honorable behavior while afield. However, like honor, a basic code of conduct exists. The following tenets should be followed at all times:
Follow Fair Chase principles, giving the animal a reasonable opportunity to escape.The contest is between its survival instincts and your skill and cunning. Too many technological advantages reduces it to mere killing, not hunting. Do not take advantage of an animal in distress.
Make a clean kill. Avoid shooting at running animals, through obstacles, or from great distances. Only take shots you’re certain you can make. Avoid wounding an animal at all costs.
Develop your skills. Attain and maintain hunting abilities that allow you to make better choices and cleaner kills. Shoot your weapon often, and from the positions in which you’ll find yourself while afield.
Know your limits. And do not exceed them. This goes for your equipment, too. If an animal is too large or too far from the vehicle for you to pack it out without spoilage, don’t take the shot.
Be safe. Know your backdrop and practice proper weapon-handling. Do not endanger yourself or others.
Show respect. For the animal. Like you, wildlife are living creatures just trying to make a go of it in this world. Give them the respect they deserve. Do not waste harvested game.
For others. Close gates behind you, be courteous to other hunters, and be considerate of non-hunters.
For Montana. Know and honor local and regional customs.
For the environment. Regard the landscape as holy ground and treat it as such. Do not litter or drive over fragile vegetation. Support conservation efforts.
For the future. Behave in a way that reflects well upon hunting and hunters, helping to ensure that future generations will enjoy the same privileges we do today.
Make Ed’s Red Gun Cleaner – Mix equal parts Kerosene, ATF, Mineral Spirits and Acetone. Watch the video for some important details.
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CBS: Guns as a way of life in Wyoming
March 13, 2016, 10:01 AM|In the wide-open spaces of the American West, guns are woven into the tapestry of life in ways city-dwellers may not understand. Ted Koppel visits the town of Cody, Wyoming, to find out how, for the majority of families, guns are inseparable from a way of life.
Enjoy another timeless video classic below just for Montana.
For The Record – There are NO GROUPS at any other social networks bearing this sites name associated in any way to this website, domain or its local owner.
There is one Facebook Page still associated to this website that is in no way promoted. It is simply there as a place for users to find this site in search because facebook has taken over most of those searches in most search engines. If members are a part of said groups, that is entirely up to them. Exercise online firearms freedoms elsewhere as long as you possibly can. Hopefully it doesn’t aggravate or challenge them into taking a stand as facebook has now done after gun control zealots invade and start reporting groups and posts as they have done at facebook.
We’ve done this too many times to put all of our eggs into other billionaire network baskets to risk losing what takes years to build. Each time it happens gun owners are divided and scattered in various directions only to see it happen time and again.
How many times do we have to lose connections and move to another network before we build our own? This site has had this in mind at every turn since purchasing the domain years ago. It has been a backup plan for just such an eventuality.
That being said we are very tolerant. We still give registered users the ability to link to their favorite social networks directly on their profile page. Either for quick reference for them or for friends to find them on other networks, this option is available.
Click edit profile after logging in to find locations to link the networks you’d like a button for to appear on your profile page. Only logged in members are able to view these links. These can be linked to your personal pages or any favorite page at those networks. Logged in users can click the photo to see my page as an example. More of these can easily be added, get in here and send me a message to make the suggestion.
