facebook makes it easy for users to report suspected gun sales

Facebook users now have the option to do what they can\'t because the company earlier this year announced a ban on selling guns and ammunition through the site: Reporting suspicious sales.
The social media giant has recently launched a new feature that allows users to mark posts that appear to describe the purchase or sale of drugs, guns or regulated goods.
More than three months after Facebook first announced the ban in January, and after weeks of complaints, some advocates supervised the site by reporting on the sale of firearms and groups specializing in the purchase and sale of firearms.
Previously, advocates had to suspect salespeople as \"harassing\" or \"credible threats of violence,\" and the options were not always clear, this may make it more difficult for members of the Facebook content review team to distinguish between prohibited content.
The move is aimed at pushing Facebook to enforce its gun sales ban, which relies entirely on user reports.
Many volunteers associated with gun violence prevention groups, including every town and mother of gun safety in the United States, who asked for action on gun perceptions, told Forbes that they first noticed reports of gun sales earlier this month
Some said they were notified that the groups they reported had been deleted but were later found on the website.
\"It was interesting for a while --
Just like a pop-up shrink-wrap bubble, \"says Charlie ghalishir, who is turning off so-
Known as a \"private sale\" loophole, Facebook has been flooded with reports of suspected gun sales in recent months.
\"I\'m sorry I didn\'t confirm that they were really down.
Facebook spokesman Jodi Seth said that shortly after the new policy came into effect, the company began rolling out the option to users in February.
When the feature is used more widely, says Shedeclined, adding that, the company has yet to make any \"formal analysis\" of how this change affects the number of posts and groups on the Facebook content review team \".
Facebook said it received about 1 million reports of banned content every day;
It is not clear the proportion of suspected gun sales.
The move to ban gun sales came after intense lobbying by the mums demand action group and other advocacy groups in 2015.
The goal is to keep Facebook away from its unexpected role as an unregulated private party gun sales facilitator, with executives privately saying they don\'t want to be involved.
However, the implementation of this policy has begun to face difficulties this year.
It doesn\'t matter that one of Facebook\'s own employees, a senior engineering director named Chuck Rossi, is helping bring banned groups back online.
About a week after the policy came into effect, Rossi instructed gun page administrators across the country to create a secret \"administrator contact\" page where they could gather to vent their frustration and try to get their team to comply.
With the help of Rossi, many groups quickly recovered.
Forbes found that a number of people subsequently continued to work as the online classification department for firearms.
Arron Miller, one of the administrators of the page, worked closely with Rossi to restore the group, where he posted a detailed description of the challenges facing the gun lovers page, answering Frequently Asked Questions, and provide guidance for groups that have been closed.
Miller estimated that \"about 80%\" of the original group was re-launched.
Now, some of the same groups have been reported again, starting the whole process.
At the same time, gun sales continue to decline in many cases today.
Take the Sacramento group of gun lovers as an example, a closed group that looks for gun owners to buy and sell guns and ammunition.
Like thousands of other people across the country, the purpose of the group is for instant noodles oppositeto-
Face trade.
Take this article of May 17 as an example, listing a Glock 17 and a half
Automatic pistol for sale.
Like other ads that are posted daily to more than 800 members of the page, the ad also has problems with potential buyers.
The seller\'s goal is to attract as many buyers as possible, and then often quickly privatize the conversation through Facebook\'s own private messenger app, which allows users to exchange payments directly with each other.
One by-product of Facebook\'s ban on gun sales is that most users now don\'t see posts that were previously made public.
Many groups recovered after being closed have changed from \"closed\" to \"secret\" where outsiders can still search for the group and see the limited details, \"This is an unlisted setting, which makes it difficult for anyone who has not yet become a member to find the group, let alone look at its contents.
Facebook users are not clear yet.
These cases can be dealt with by relying on enforcement.