Prohibited Content: Weapons & Weapon Accessories

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Prohibited Content Category: 
Weapons and weapon accessories, including guns, gun accessories or ammunition, and explosives.

Additional Guidelines: 

Ads cannot include:

  • Real-life Weapons, Weapon Accessories, or Explosives: Examples include guns, knives, grenades, bombs, brass knuckles, tasers, batons, pepper spray, ammunition or ammunition clips, silencers, bump stocks, or similar devices or components.
  • Weapon- or Explosive-Related Violence and Illegal Activities: Content that contains instructions on the use, assembly, enhancement, or acquisition of weapons or explosives; depicts injury to people or property from weapons or explosives; promotes the sale of real weapons, ammunition, or explosives; or encourages unlawful acts involving weapons or explosives, including the acquisition, distribution, or smuggling of those materials.
  • Functional devices that appear to discharge a projectile at high velocity, including airsoft guns, paintball guns, and bb guns.

Ads can include:

  • Cartoon Weapons, Ammunition, or Explosives: Depictions of weapons and ammunition in a cartoon or animated context, which do not appear to be real weapons, ammunition, or explosives and have appropriate context reflecting their non-real nature.