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Haha so I used backpage.com to buy, sell, and trade firearms in Arizona as we do not require background checks for private sales. Today the government seized it because people used it for prostitution and sex trafficking. I understand that they are trying to do something about the sex trafficking. What I am wondering is those of us who used backpage in Phoenix for firearms (even FFLs and retail stores posted on Backpage) what are we going to use now. I like this site but it doesn't seem to have as many users as backpage did. Also the only reason I know about southwestfirearms.com is because of an ad on backpage in the sporting goods section.What in helsinki is backpage? Nevah hoyd of it...
I kinda hope this site gets big now?G damn it that was the most convenient way to buy/sell/trade. Armslist is free but has a lot of scammers and crap on it.
Same for Nevada. I have bought a few gubs at gub shows from private sellers at the Hilton (now called the Grand Sierra Resort). I prefer to do it there, where I have time to really inspect the firearm before I buy it. Bought a really nice British Sterling 9mm rifle with the collapsing stock and the "stinger" barrel. Must have been an older one because the later ones had the handguard going all the way to the muzzle. Mine could be converted to SBR by just getting the tax stamp and lopping-off the barrel about two inches or so in front of the receiver. Paid $675 for it; never fired it. There was another one on another table; not as nice as mine and going for $900. I remember seeing these for sale in Shotgun News in the early 1980s. I was a college kid with no money, so they were out of reach. Things have changed for me in thirty-plus years...I used backpage.com to buy, sell and trade firearms in Arizona as we do not require background checks for private sales.
I kinda hope this site gets big now?
I was flaked on a few times when I tried to buy. One time I drove an hour and waited for them to show up. They never did. They never got a hold me and reposted. It was so irritating that they couldn't just text and say they needed to reschedule.With the demise of backpage I am sure the classifieds will grow here. At least this forum has a feedback rating system so over time you will know who is good to deal with and helpfully weed out some of the flakes that BP was notorious for.
So many people who were born in the late 1960s and early 1970s were never taught any manners at home, and it's just gotten worse since then. Just seems to be an appalling shortage of class these days...I was flaked-on a few times when I tried to buy. It was so irritating that they couldn't just text and say they needed to reschedule.
I just don't get why backpage didn't just do what craigslist did.
Get rid of the personal ads.
I guess there is always armslist
They did remove the personals. Backpage got singled out pretty hard even though they were trying to report on any suspicious ads that might have been involved with underage sex trafficking. Just another example of the sheila broflowskis of America going to war on free speech and sex workers.I just don't get why backpage didn't just do what craigslist did.
Get rid of the personal ads.
I guess there is always armslist