Facebook bans selling guns on website, Instagram

Taking a cue from President Barack Obama’s stand on curbing gun violence in the US, social networking giant Facebook has banned private gun sales on its site and mobile photo and video-sharing app Instagram.
The Mark Zuckerberg-founded platform on Friday said it was planning to stop person-to-person firearms sales on its networks, cnet.com reported.
“Over the last two years, more and more people have been using Facebook to discover products and to buy and sell things to one another,&