'Gunbook': Brit sets up rival site after Facebook bans his gun-loving friends

Jane Onyanga-Omara | USA TODAY

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LONDON — A British gun enthusiast whose friends were banned from Facebook for posting pictures of their weapons has set up a rival social network for shooters — Gunbook.

David Scott, 57, a shooting instructor from Kilsyth in Scotland, said his website has attracted 1,000 members since it went live three weeks ago, BuzzFeed News reported.

Scott told BuzzFeed that around 60 of the website's members are American.

“Facebook have banned all gun adverts. If you post a gun sale, even a legal one on Facebook, you get banned,” Scott told BuzzFeed.

“I’ve started gunbook, which is a social network for shooters. People were getting booted off even for putting up pictures with guns.”

Kilsyth, where Scott lives, is about 20 miles from the town of Dunblane, where a mass shooter armed with four handguns gunned down 16 five and six-year-old children and their teacher at an elementary school in 1996. The massacre is the deadliest mass shooting in British history.

Britain banned handguns the following year. Shotgun and rifle owners require a license.

BuzzFeed said anti-gun activists were shocked that Scott set up Gunbook given that he was from close to Dunblane, and described his website as "tasteless."

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