If you buy something legal from a DNM is it a crime? e.g. grinders, pipes etc.
DNM legality
If you buy something legal from a DNM is it a crime? e.g. grinders, pipes etc.
[14 Points] krokodiltear:
[6 Points] Xeeroy:
Why would you do that though? Grinders, pipes etc can easily be found on the regular internet that will gladly send equipment to you as discreetly as possible in exchange for regular money that in some cases will even show up as something completely inconspicuous on your credit card bill. There is nothing illegal in that and it is way easier and safer to buy from someone you can hold accountable in case of problems.
[2 Points] None:
I sell Oil Rigs and vaporizers and shit. For the record they are not legal to ship to several states. PA is one.
You ship a bong to Police captians son in PA you are fucked!
[1 Points] Ubley:
If you buy something off of the DNM's you're not paying any taxes on it and the government hella cares about it's taxes so I guess it might be tax evasion?
[-4 Points] None:
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You'd be surprised how many unencrypted addresses and names have been collected by LE over the years from people buying ILLEGAL drugs. When they shut down SR1 for example, they had months worth of order histories and PM logs at their disposal, and you can bet that a sizable percentage of the users at the time didn't encrypt sensitive information. Yet even with all this information, LE basically didn't go after anybody, even bulk-level buyers.
So given that type of response, there's absolutely no way that they'd bother trying to track down the %.01 of users buying only legal items on the markets.
I suppose if you want to talk about the theoretical and how the laws might be written for something as specific as this, then the answer is less concrete (I doubt it's been legally settled yet; even an experienced lawyer working with these types of cases probably couldn't give you a straight answer). While in the real world, no one gives a shit if you buy a grinder off the darknet, it's possible that they could bring up charges against you if they really wanted to. This sort of happened before, although with a vendor who only sold legal items.. Not sure if his case has been settled yet, or if he ever filed his suit against the FBI for "seizing his allegedly legitimately earned bitcoins".
tl;dr: Practically speaking, you'd be absolutely fine as a buyer, even if they somehow managed to tie the purchase to the darknet. The issue becomes a bit less clear in the case of a "legal" vendor. That being said, why anyone would decide to order such items off the darknet instead of a clearnet source is beyond me...