Shopify Wades Into Gun Debate, Banning Sales on Its Stores
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Shopify Inc., the Canadian provider of online stores for more than 600,000 businesses, banned the sale of some semi-automatic firearms and 3D-printed guns.
Semi-automatic guns that can take magazines that hold more than 10 bullets, attachments that make guns fire faster -- like bump stocks -- and silencers or flash suppressors are all considered “restricted items,” according to the company’s rules, which were updated Monday night. The popular and controversial AR-15, as well as other “assault-type weapons,” and most pistols would fall into this category.