SAN BRUNO, Calif. (AP) — YouTube has tightened its restrictions on firearms videos.
The video-serving network owned by Google is banning videos that provide instructions on how to make a firearm, ammunition, high-capacity magazines, and accessories such as bump stocks and silencers.
The ban includes showing viewers how to install the accessories or modifications. YouTube also prohibits content about the sale of guns or firearm accessories.
The policy comes weeks after a mass shooting at a Florida high school left 17 people dead.
The National Sports Shooting Foundation says such restrictions “impinge on the Second Amendment.” The group worries about the potential for blocking “educational content” that instructs and improves skills.
Waste of time, gun owners will not be impressed, only liberal snowflakes. Sad.
Gun Trade Association (lobbyist) complains. A blow against US citizen / terrorists- so of course lobbyists et al complain.
This is quite sad, that the NSSF and NRA don’t have the resources to host these videos online themselves rather than rely on other private entities that make ethical choices for themselves. These people put the SS in NSSF.
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There. Now I’ve saved everyone the bother of wondering what the comments over at RedState et al. look like.
Are they gonna leave up the “sh** eating grin at the shooting range” videos that put the lie to the gun nut lie that they are a bunch of responsible, knowledge patriots whose interest in guns is a dispassionate search for the best means of hunting and self-defense?