Originally Posted By: 6724from the paypal website:
For example, using PayPal, you can’t buy or sell:
Any firearm, including rifles, shotguns, and handguns, whether they’re for sport and recreation, collectibles, or curio or relic firearms.
Firearm parts, including but not limited to receivers and frames, silencers, and kits designed to modify guns so that they fire automatically. High capacity magazines, multi-burst trigger activators, and camouflaging firearm containers are other items in this category.
Ammunition, including propellants like gunpowder or blank ammunition; ammunition or cartridge cases; and primers, bullets, or propellant powder designed for any firearm.
That could be construed as anti gun but it also can be good policy to limit liability. All the items listed have laws in place either limiting them or out right laws against some of them in some states.
Its easy for one to forget that they are a payment company and are a middleman between the seller and actual buyer. For that reason I can see why they don't want to involve themselves in transactions for firearms, high cap mags, special triggers that replicate full auto fire. Fraud is so prevalent in today's society companies have to be very careful especially when it could involve some guy with the BATFE up your azz with a microscope.
Would you risk money and your FFL by sending a brand new Benelli to some other "apearently legit" FFL for a guy named fraudulentbill@hotformail.com? He's even got a fake checking account built off of hot checks he wrote off someone else's account.
I don't necessarily view their policy as anti gun. I view it as more of a "we're not going to involve ourselves in transactions of restricted items" policy.