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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bev aka thelmasstuff, post: 242517, member: 23&quot;]eBay is responding to the Stolen Valor Act of 2013. They can&#039;t control whether someone passes it off as their own, so they choose to ban the sale.&nbsp; As the daughter, sister and wife of military veterans, I have to agree that it&#039;s a problem, but as someone stated, if there are no remaining family members, either the military has to have a program whereby they can be returned or else someone is going to buy them for collections.&nbsp; Banning the sale isn&#039;t going to stop Stolen Valor from happening, and there have been a couple of blatant examples lately.&nbsp; I love it when some real veteran comes upon one of these jerks in a public place and humiliates them.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; There is also the law in the US banning most ivory sales as an attempt at reining in the illegal ivory trade to stop killing elephants.&nbsp; For awhile, you could still sell antique ivory but even that is getting more difficult and it doesn&#039;t seem to stop poachers.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as other items, if you post a photo of a gun, even a palm sized, antique, toy cap gun without an orange plug in the end, they will pull it if someone turns you in.&nbsp; In fact, if you put covert language in your listing in order to fool the bots (robots) that pick up terminology, you can still get busted if a competitor or troll searches listings and busts you.&nbsp; I had a 1940s Air Raid Warden badge that didn&#039;t even look like a Police badge, but in small letters on the bottom of the badge it said &quot;Issued by the Police Dept. of the City of Boston.&quot;&nbsp; Not only was it pulled, but when I wrote to question it I got pink-slapped - told to cease and desist or I&#039;d get an enforced &quot;vacation&quot; and banned for a period of time</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Valor_Act_of_2013" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Valor_Act_of_2013" rel="nofollow">Stolen_Valor_Act_of_2013</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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