Agora admins have posted a new message on the market announcing that from now own it will not allow the sale of lethal weapons:
Original announcement link on agora: http://agorahooawayyfoe.onion/info/noweapons
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Hash: SHA512Starting from July 15th 2015 Agora will no longer list lethal weapons.
Following our mission we wish such objects would be available for purchase, but the current reality of it is that the format of a market like ours does not constitute a good way to do it. Shipping weapons is hard, they are expensive and stimulate both scamming by dishonest vendors and honeypot listings by agencies looking to find buyers who might wish to obtain such weapons illegally from us. This has been reflected for a long time in both the volume and the success rates of our listings in the weapons section.
At this point continuing to list weapons would do more harm than good for our users.
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This is probably a smart move considering the amount of people who got arrested when purchasing guns trough honeypot vendors and the additional heat from LE these product are attracting (more details available here: Tor black-market-related arrests).