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Bushmaster AR15 Giveaway

Postby johnharris » Tue Apr 09, 2013 7:59 am

BUSHMASTER AR15 GIVEAWAY!!

TFA is giving away a BUSHMASTER AR15 to advance the effort to resist Barack Obama, the federal government and even a few in Tennessee state government who are determined to destroy your 2nd Amendment rights!!

He...re is how to sign up for your chance in the drawing!!

1. Go to the TFA Bushmaster Giveaway page and sign up.

( http://unbouncepages.com/tfa-ar-15-giveaway/ )

2. Chip in a few dollars to help support the promotion and TFA!!! (NOT required to enter the giveaway but we really do appreciate the support)

3. Share this information on your Facebook page, Twitter, etc. Do not forget to join TFA's Facebook Page and its Group!n up.
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Re: Bushmaster AR15 Giveaway

Postby Hardtarget » Wed Apr 10, 2013 11:07 pm

Well, yes! I am glad to put my name in...even though I've NEVER won anything worth talking about. Even with a track record like that, its fun to think about. I'll just sit over here and wait...patiently... :roll:

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Facebook shuts down AR-15 giveaway pages

Postby Tim Nunan » Mon Apr 22, 2013 12:56 pm

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04 ... o-say-why/

When TheBlaze first spoke with Erik Lowry, he was running a contest on Facebook to give away an AR-15. Now, a couple months later, the fan page for Pittsburgh Tactical Firearm, Lowry’s store, has been shut down, along with a secondary page he established to replace it a couple days ago.

“I still don’t know what’s going on,” Lowry told TheBlaze in a phone interview Sunday afternoon.

Lowry said three days ago he awoke to calls and emails from fans asking where his Facebook page had gone. Lowry used the page to keep Pittsburgh Tactical Firearm’s more than 27,000 followers updated on store and stock information and Second Amendment news.

Without any notice from Facebook, Lowry said his page was shut down. In the days following, he said he has sent more than 100 messages through appeals still without a response.

The only way Lowry has been able to figure out why his page — and those of other gun stores — might have been shut down a few days ago is from the report of the media start-up Vocativ, which published a story about firearm giveaways being run by some gun stores on Facebook. In its article, Vocativ spoke with Facebook, which was unaware of the pages content at first and said they violated terms, which would result in them being shut down:

When Vocativ contacted Facebook, a company spokesman was unaware that the giveaways existed. When alerted to the existing posts, he said the pages are considered ads and thereby do violate the social network’s terms. “Our Ad Guidelines prohibit promotion of the sale of weapons and the Ad Guidelines apply to Pages with commercial content on them,” he said. “Ads may not promote the sale or use of weapons, ammunition, or explosives.” He said the company would review the posts. “Most of these should be removed per our terms,” he added. (Facebook has both ad guidelines and promotions guidelines.)

As for promotions, like a giveaway, Facebook in its guidelines states these “must be administered within Apps on Facebook.com, either on a Canvas Page or a Page App.”

Facebook’s ad guidelines state, “Ads may not promote the sale or use of weapons, ammunition, or explosives.”

But Lowry said no transactions of firearm or ammunition sales were ever conducted through the site. He would alert fans to when ammunition might be in stock in the store or of other promotions occurring at Pittsburgh Tactical Firearm. He also noted that the winner of the giveaways, which he were running, were legally vetted as being allowed to own a firearm before the weapon was ever given to them.

“There are no guidelines that says you can’t giveaway guns,” Lowry said.
(more at link)
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