The Business of Guns

online daily or close to it. The first online gun sales in the history of the Internet likely appeared on private servers, where one- to-one web connections using electronic fund transfers made it impossible for authorities to monitor exchanges. By the mid-1990s, major online exchanges popped up that directly connected large numbers of buyers and sellers. The biggest pioneer was eBay: by 1997, the company had about two million auctions per month, at a time when the company had far too few employees to police its exchanges. In addition to

By January 1, 1999, eBay announced it would no longer allow the sale and exchange of firearms and ammunition.

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