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No, silk road did not sell weapons. There was legal content like pornography and other media on there, but Ulbricht was an idealist and excluded material with "intent to harm".

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Notably, as Ullbricht predicted, the Silk Road was immediately replaced by sites which did not have such ideals, and openly sold weapons and illegal pornography.

They were there already and shutting down the silk road changed nothing in that perspective.

So all the people who got convicted for selling firearms on Silk Road, how'd that happen then?

It didn't happen.

Ctrl-F for "Products" on this page[1] and stop making shit up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)

Interesting and surprising they really had rules, thanks for the clarification. I'm ashamed to say I opened this page and read it wrong the first time by skipping the first sentence.

You might be interested in my comment about Carnegie Mellon University's researchers findings on what Silk Road sold/didn't sell/what was popular.

don't conflate Silk Road == all Darknet Markets

plus in North America you don't really need a darknet market to get a gun illegally. US FedGov ain't gonna get to involved in illegal gun sales in Europe.

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