Hi Redditors,
I'm a reporter with the Guardian, currently looking into a piece looking at what effect the president's new executive action on gun control - specifically the clarification that requires even small internet-based vendors to do background checks - will have on gun-buying on the internet.
Specifically - will it drive more people to buy guns on the deepweb? Are there that many sites selling guns - and what are they? Did Armory turn out to be a scam site after all that attention?
Also: do you buy or sell guns on the internet or operate on a site which does, and if so have you seen any change in the number of guns or customers in the last few days?
EDIT: lot of people are saying that there's no legit gun sellers on the DW. If there's a crackdown in no-background-checks sales elsewhere - and parts of the executive order (which are pretty vague admittedly) imply that even a private sale of two guns can count as a vendor sale and be actionable if no background checks are available - then if more people go to the darkweb, will it be a massive payday for scammers and the FBI? Or will legitimate supply rise to meet demand?
EDIT 2: also, are the Amman Bundy thuhll tuhkk urr guhnns types even capable of the kind of web-savvy that shopping on the deep web requires?
No one sells guns on any major deep web market , there are plenty of scammers purporting to sell guns because a fool and his money are easily parted. Most markets ban weapons listings for this very reason, it only leads to buyers getting ripped off and complaining (they also don't want the bad publicity that comes from selling guns)
On the presidents speech, where are all these online gun stores selling with no back ground checks? Because I have never seem such a thing.