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Question Response regarding Paypal’s anti-gun policies

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This started out as a reply to this comment in a thread where I mentioned Paypal’s anti-gun policies.

Sailorcurt on November 19, 2014 at 11:27 pm said:
I’m glad that my humble input helped you. No donation required…if for no other reason than because I simply don’t have a graceful way for you to do it. I refuse to use Paypal because of their anti-gun policies and they’re pretty much the only game in town when it comes to that kind of thing, so I accept your thanks in lieu of a generous donation.

You’re welcome.

Geoff
on January 29, 2015 at 5:34 pm said:
I am an avid gunner and Ebayer. I use Paypal frequently. Where did you find their gun policies?

Paypal’s official gun policies are listed in their Acceptable Use Policy:

You may not use the PayPal service for activities that…relate to transactions involving…ammunition, firearms, or certain firearm parts or accessories…

On its face it sounds pretty vague and innocuous and simply a “CYA” position to limit liability. Were that the only basis for my opinion I might agree, but there is simply too much evidence that Paypal is legitimately anti-gun to ignore.

Shortly after the Virginia Tech murders, Paypal started aggressively going after and shutting down users who used Paypal to conduct any firearm related commerce. There are anecdote after anecdote about this online.

This was bad enough, but the straw that really broke the Camel’s back for me was the experience of Kevin Baker and a charity called Soldier’s Angels, dedicated to assisting military members and veterans.

In summary, Kevin was working on setting up a raffle to generate donations for the aforementioned charity. Soldier’s Angels was using their paypal account to accept payment for raffle entries. When Paypal found out that this raffle involved a firearm, they not only suspended sales of the Raffle Tickets, but suspended all of Soldier’s Angels activities, including straight charitable donations.

Ultimately, Kevin and Soldier’s Angels found an alternate method to sell the raffle tickets, but the bottom line is that Paypal, because of their clear anti-gun bias, without warning or consultation, severely harmed a valued charity for doing nothing more than selling raffle tickets involving a prize that Paypal didn’t approve of.

Here’s the whole story from the source if you want more details.

So, in summary, it is my contention that Paypal is patently anti-gun rights. As a result of this, I refuse to support them with my business.


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