John–
Facebook won't let you make posts offering to mail abortion pills1—but they will let you buy and sell guns up to 10 TIMES before they kick you off the social network.2
This leniency for unlicensed gun sales is beyond shocking—it’s incredibly dangerous. It does little or nothing to stop the unchecked spread of firearms, meaning an increased likelihood of more guns in the wrong hands.
Facebook is coddling gun sellers and putting our safety at risk. Sign the petition: Facebook needs to stop aiding easy access to firearms.
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A reporter even tested what Facebook lets gun sellers get away with: They made a post offering to mail abortion pills, and their account was immediately put on a "warning" status. Yet when they made the exact same post and swapped out the words "abortion pills" for "a gun," the post was allowed to stay up.3
There’s even a separate, five-strikes policy extended to gun sellers and purchasers who actively call for violence or praise a known dangerous organization.4
That's not accountability. That's complicity.
As a volunteer with Moms Demand Action, I know that our movement has the power to press Facebook leaders to do better, because we've done it before. But they still haven't done enough.
Corporations have an important role to play in the fight to end gun violence—sign the petition telling Facebook to do more to prevent gun violence.
Thank you for taking action.
Amy Axtell
She/Her/Hers
Volunteer, Missouri Moms Demand Action
1. "Instagram and Facebook remove posts offering abortion pills." AP News. 27 June 2022.
2. "Facebook's ban on gun sales gives sellers 10 strikes before booting them." Washington Post. 9 June 2022.
3. "Instagram and Facebook remove posts offering abortion pills." AP News. 27 June 2022.
4. "Facebook's ban on gun sales gives sellers 10 strikes before booting them." Washington Post. 9 June 2022.
