EBay - New "Military Items Policy"

[CaptainFinn]

And yet, last week, I was on Ebay looking for a beater Krag rifle stock and found a listing for 'Krag rifle front sight with attached part'.

Yeah, it was a 'attached part' all right. A COMPLETE barrelled receiver was attached to the 'front sight' that the guy was selling. (An aftermarket ramped front sight, BTW).

The only thing more puzzling then Ebay's draconian 'gun parts' policy is their inconsistant enforcement of said policy.....

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[RJW NZ]

And yet, last week, I was on Ebay looking for a beater Krag rifle stock and found a listing for 'Krag rifle front sight with attached part'.

Yeah, it was a 'attached part' all right. A COMPLETE barrelled receiver was attached to the 'front sight' that the guy was selling. (An aftermarket ramped front sight, BTW).

The only thing more puzzling then Ebay's draconian 'gun parts' policy is their inconsistant enforcement of said policy.....

This comes from the way their enforcement software works; it scans for keywords like magazine, bolt, trigger, trigger part etc, and alerts a human operator, who inspects the listing. Thats how a magazine can get away with being called an enfield box, it'll go under the radar until someone either dobs them in, or a random inspection by ebay staff spots it.
Likewise enfield boltheads are technically against the rules, as being a crucial part of the firing mechanism, but they don't know the word for it, and seeing the creatively correct phrase 'enfield clearance adjuster', recently from a seller, just might work for some time to come.
Chin up chaps, its all a good excuse to patronize the likes of gunbroker more, who have really stepped into the gaps left by ebay.