Facebook, Google Block Ads For Gun…Locks

By Tom Knighton

If there’s one thing we all can agree on, it’s that securing your firearms is a good thing. Not only does it keep small, curious hands from messing with the guns, but it also makes them less attractive to thieves who would then have to defeat the locks.

In fact, of all the things available in the firearms community, gun locks are probably the least controversial product out there.

Hell, anti-gun crusaders are trying to pass laws that require people to lock up their guns.

So why are Facebook and Google locking ads for the products out?

In the wake of the Florida school shooting, activists on the left have been in their standard mode of screaming for someone to “do something” without much of a clear idea as to what that “something” might be. With no government action on that front, online giants with influence in the retail sector, including Facebook and Google, decided to take action on their own. They began suppressing advertising for the sale of guns. (Which the New York Times described as simply fabulous.)

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So… no more advertisements for gun sales. But it wasn’t that easy to implement apparently. They …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms