Gunbroker App banned from Apple and Google App Stores

[AManWearingAHat]

Title pretty much says it all. Silicon Valley has given gunbroker the heave-ho and de-platformed it completely.

Upsetting to say the least, I loved their app and used it many times. Gunbroker suggested adding their website to your home screen in place of the app. They have also reported working hard to improve their mobile website. Still a damn shame, the notifications saved me from losing an item multiple times.


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[Watchdog]

Title pretty much says it all. Silicon Valley has given gunbroker the heave-ho and de-platformed it completely.

Upsetting to say the least, I loved their app and used it many times. Gunbroker suggested adding their website to your home screen in place of the app. They have also reported working hard to improve their mobile website. Still a damn shame, the notifications saved me from losing an item multiple times.

Gunbroker seems to have been working on improving their mobile website and their online site for a couple of years now...and it just keeps getting worse and worse. They've over-complicated the whole platform. And their way of zooming in on a photo of guns is a complete joke, not to mention the size limitations imposed on photos of guns.

 

[M29since14]

Gunbroker seems to have been working on improving their mobile website and their online site for a couple of years now...and it just keeps getting worse and worse. They've over-complicated the whole platform. And their way of zooming in on a photo of guns is a complete joke, not to mention the size limitations imposed on photos of guns.

I couldn’t agree more.

 

[CustomChevyGuy]

Last Friday I was just trying to hook up the app on my co workers phone to aid him in his next purchase. It was working fine on my phone, but we couldn't find it anywhere online for him to download and use. We both figured the antis had finally gotten the app removed from "their" platforms.

 

[jejb]

You can still download it and then "side load" it to your Android device. The following link says you have to download some new app store, but I did not have to do that. Just click on the link toward the bottom of the page that says "search the store for the GunBroker app." and download the app.

Mobile Apps – GunBroker

It's not at all hard to sideload apps, but probably varies by which phone you have. So you may have to do some internet searching to figure that out. It's very simple on our Samsung devices. Just load the app to the device, find it with an app like ES File Explorer and execute it. It then prompts you to make sure you're okay with loading the app, and installs it.

 

[Telecaster]

I've had the app for a while and it's still working fine. I guess I won't expect an updates, then.

 

[Muss Muggins]

I've got it on my phone, but I just got a new iPad and Gunbroker was nowhere to be found. Like Telecaster, I'm expecting the phone app to eventually be useless.

Of course, I can still get to Gunbroker proper through the browser on the iPad. When you get to the homepage, you can then add that home page as an icon on your screen through the "Add to Home Screen" option when you tap the little rectangle with the up arrow that you use for sending a page to the printer or as a link in a message or social media post. That particular option to add to the home screen only works thru Safari, though. Might work on Chrome, which I don't use. Definitely doesn't work through Firefox . . .

 

[rkittine]

I wonder why this has happened. If you go to search at the Apple Store on your Apple Devise and type GUN there are pages of Firearms related Apps, including sites that see. So it does not look like it is an Anti Gun thing.

Bob

 

[Watchdog]

I wonder why this has happened. If you go to search at the Apple Store on your Apple Devise and type GUN there are pages of Firearms related Apps, including sites that see. So it does not look like it is an Anti Gun thing.

Bob

In April of 2018, Apple CEO Tim Cook squashed demands from anti-gun groups that Apple drop NRATV from its streaming video service.

He refused, not so much because he's pro-gun, but because he's opposed to that kind of censorship.

Quoting from one article:

"With his recent statement, Cook appeared to agree that stifling constitutional freedoms are probably not the way to go in the U.S. Adding that while he doesn't necessarily agree with the NRA's 'positions' or 'tactics,' and noting that 'some of the things they've said are unbelievably distasteful,' Cook said he refuses to remove the gun organization's channel from Apple TV because he believes it's important to share differing points of view"

Interested forum members can read another article from that same month in Bearing Arms by clicking here.

 

[italiansport]

Never forget the ultimate goal of the anti-gunners is registration and then all confiscation of privately owned firearms. Steps like this which appear irrelevant and basically meaningless moves them towards their ultimate goal. They understand there's no way any proposal to just go ahead and confiscate all firearms could be approved so they will continue to push in that direction. They'll take help wherever they can get it - even from someone like Bezos
Jim

 

[Sevens]

I would like to know more about WHO decided that this app is no longer available on either platform.

I will say that I've been using the Gunbroker app for years, literally, and it is extremely fast and very very good when it comes to keeping an eye on particular auctions, but it also leaves a lot to be desired. Further, there has been ZILCH updates to this app in years. I mean none.

I have long been hoping for an updated app. This sounds like bad news for that.