{"id":7096,"date":"2014-02-27T07:26:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T12:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=7096"},"modified":"2014-02-27T07:26:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T12:26:21","slug":"wanna-buy-a-gun-its-easy-i-tells-ya-shop-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wanna-buy-a-gun-its-easy-i-tells-ya-shop-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanna Buy a Gun? It&#8217;s Easy I Tells Ya! Shop on Facebook!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From VentureBeat comes this article, which makes me wonder what on Earth is going on! The world&#8217;s sure gone crazy!<em> &#8220;There&#8217;s something happening here \/ What it is ain&#8217;t exactly clear&#8230;&#8221;<\/em> (Buffalo Springfield, &#8220;For What It&#8217;s Worth&#8221;)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Buying a gun on Facebook takes 15 minutes<\/h2>\n<p>Fifteen minutes.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all it takes for children, felons, and people without IDs to buy illegal weapons on Facebook pages dedicated to the sale and celebration of guns.<\/p>\n<p>A VentureBeat investigation has uncovered dozens of pages on Facebook where guns are for sale, including semi-automatic weapons, handguns, and silencers. While the transactions don\u2019t actually happen on Facebook, the social network is a remarkably easy way to find shady people willing to sell you a weapon \u2014 no questions asked. The illegal transactions then take place in diners, dark parking lots, and isolated country roads \u2014 away from the prying eyes of the feds and local police.<\/p>\n<p>In Kentucky, Greenup County Sheriff Keith Cooper remembers when a call came into dispatch last October saying a 15-year-old student had been arrested on the Greenup County High School campus for carrying an unlicensed and loaded 9mm handgun to school. The boy was arrested and brought to Cooper\u2019s office for an interview.<\/p>\n<p>When Cooper, a former Kentucky State Trooper with a heavy Southern drawl, asked the kid where he got the gun, his reply was shocking: Facebook.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.readability.com\/articles\/3exliir3\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Read the rest here..<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Buffalo Springfield - For What It&#039;s Worth 1967\" width=\"665\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gp5JCrSXkJY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From VentureBeat comes this article, which makes me wonder what on Earth is going on! The world&#8217;s sure gone crazy! &#8220;There&#8217;s something happening here \/ What it is ain&#8217;t exactly clear&#8230;&#8221; (Buffalo Springfield, &#8220;For What It&#8217;s Worth&#8221;) Buying a gun on Facebook takes 15 minutes Fifteen minutes. That\u2019s all it takes for children, felons, and people without IDs\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wanna-buy-a-gun-its-easy-i-tells-ya-shop-on-facebook\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1426],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7096"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7099,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7096\/revisions\/7099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}