Important: If you supply products for sale on Amazon, you must comply with all
federal, state, and local laws and Amazon policies applicable to those products and product
listings.
Our policy: You
must comply with all applicable federal laws when selling weapons, imitation weapons, and
weapon accessories. You must also comply with state and local laws applicable to the
jurisdiction into which your products are sold, as well as the jurisdiction from which you
ship. For example, many state laws place requirements on size, color, and markings of
imitation weapons. In addition, you are responsible for obtaining any required licenses for
permitted products and are liable for any penalties resulting from non-compliance. Sellers
using Fulfillment by Amazon, please also see
FBA Prohibited Products for
additional product restrictions.
The following examples of permitted and prohibited listings are not exhaustive, but should be
instructive in evaluating products for listing and sale.
Ammunition
Amazon prohibits the listing or sale of firearm ammunition and ammunition components for
assault weapons, black powder guns, handguns, muzzleloaders, pistols, shotguns, and
rifles.
Examples of permitted listings
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Ammunition that does not contain lead or
gunpowder such as:
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BB, air, pellet, and airsoft ammunition.
Note: These are subject to geographic
sales restrictions.
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Paintball gun paint pellets
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Plastic non-explosive training aids, such
as solid plastic ammunition
Examples of prohibited listings
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Firearm ammunition, such as:
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Ammunition for pistols and rifles,
including assault weapons
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Slugs
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Shotgun shells
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Ballistic loads
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Hollow point
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Round balls
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Ammunition components, such as:
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Black powder
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Blanks
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Bullets
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Bullet tips
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Casings
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Gun powder
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Primers
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Shotgun Shells
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Smokeless powder
Explosives
Amazon prohibits the listing or sale of explosive devices and products that contain
explosive materials.
Examples of permitted listings
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Flares designed for safety, emergency, or
distress signaling purposes
Note: These are
subject to geographic sales restrictions and are not eligible for sale through
FBA.
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Plastic toy hand grenades
Examples of prohibited listings
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Explosives, such as:
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Fireworks
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Flares, flare launchers, flare guns, flare
gun receivers
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Grenades, such as:
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Military practice grenades
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Rifle grenades
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Smoke grenades
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Metal replica grenades
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Grenade launchers
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Improvised explosive devices, including training aids, accessories, and certain
explosive precursors
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Mines
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Projectile and concussive products that
employ gunpowder or explosives
Firearms
Amazon prohibits the listing or sale of all firearms, including assault weapons, black
powder guns, handguns, muzzleloaders, shotguns, rifles, and starter guns.
Examples of permitted listings
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Airsoft guns
Note: These are subject to geographic sales
restrictions.
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Replicas of firearms that were manufactured in
or before 1898, if the replica is not capable of firing fixed ammunition
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Non-powdered weapons such as BB guns, pellet
guns, paintball guns, and air rifles that are clearly marketed to be air or spring driven
and identify the type of ammunition that the product discharges
Note: These are subject to geographic sales
restrictions.
Toy guns
Note: These are subject to
geographic sales restrictions.
Examples of prohibited listings
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Firearms, such as:
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3D printed guns and 3D gun blueprints
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Antique and collectible guns
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Assault weapons
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Automatic weapons (e.g. machine guns)
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Muzzleloaders and black powder guns
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Rifles, shotguns, and handguns
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Smartphone guns and other guns designed to
resemble harmless items
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Sport and hunting guns
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Wallet guns
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Zip guns
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Electronic guns
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Replicas of firearms that were manufactured
after 1898 and/or are capable of firing fixed ammunition
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Non-firing replicas of firearms that were
manufactured after 1898 and lack the markings required by 15 U.S.C. § 5001
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Toy, imitation, or "look-alike" firearms that
do not have required markings, including cell phone cases and purses that resemble
firearms
Firearm accessories
Amazon prohibits the listing or sale of certain firearm and imitation firearm
accessories.
Examples of permitted listings
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Butt plates
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Fixed stocks, with the exception of thumbhole
stocks
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Grip extensions that do not add capacity and do
not allow for the use of a higher capacity magazine
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Grips designed for handguns
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Holsters
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Laser sights that are properly labeled with
laser strength and class (with the exception of guide rod laser sights, which are
prohibited)
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Magazine floor plates/base plates
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Magazine loaders, except for those that can
accommodate the following calibers: .223/5.56; 7.62x51; 308; 7.62x39; 5.45x39
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Reloading kits and equipment
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Scopes, including:
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Night vision or infrared scopes.
Note: These are subject to geographic sales
restrictions.
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Choke tubes without spikes
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Single picatinny or weaver rails
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Suppressors or silencers that are permanently
affixed to and are integral to the barrel of airsoft, air, and paintball guns.
Note: These are subject to geographic sales
restrictions.
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Trigger guards
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Two point and traditional slings
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Vise blocks not intended for use with assault
weapons
Examples of prohibited listings
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Assault weapon parts or accessories or products
marketed as assault weapon parts or accessories, including reference to various assault
weapon models
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Parts or combination of parts designed or
intended to convert a firearm into an assault weapon
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Gun parts and accessories, even when designed
or marketed for use with paintball, airsoft, or air guns, such as:
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Assault weapon conversion kits
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Assault weapon grips, forend grips, front
grips, and foregrips
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Assault weapon and AR-specific tools, such
as:
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Vise blocks
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AR-15/M16 armorer’s wrenches or combo
wrenches
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Bullet button tools
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Auto sears, such as:
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Full auto sears (also known as drop-in auto
sear or DIAS)
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AR-15 auto sears
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Auto sears II
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Barrels, barrel shrouds, barrel extenders, heat
guards, hand guards, and vent cooling slots
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Battery assist levers
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Bayonet mounts and any device for attaching a
bayonet to a firearm
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Camouflaging gun containers designed to fire
without removing the gun from its container
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Charging handles, latches, and assemblies
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Detachable carry handles and assault rifle
carry handles
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Ejection port, ejection port covers, and dust
covers
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Frames
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Gas blocks, gas tubes, and gas pistons
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Certain grips and grip accessories, such as:
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Pistol grips designed for attachment to an
assault weapon, rifle, or shotgun
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Folding, vertical, and tactical grips
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Angled foregrips and ambidextrous
foregrips
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Grip pods, funnels, and extensions
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Hand stops
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Door breachers
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Kits that can be used to create gun
magazines
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Machine gun conversion kits and any part or
combination of parts for converting a firearm into an automatic weapon
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Magazines and related items, such as:
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Magazine components or extensions
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Magazine cinches, couplers, connectors,
dual mag holders, dual mag clamps and followers
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Magazine loaders that can accommodate the
following calibers: .223/5.56; 7.62x51; 308; 7.62x39; 5.45x39
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Multi-rail systems, including quad rails and
rail covers, free-floating and drop-in handguards
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Muzzle brakes (also known as muzzle
tamers)
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Pistol stabilizing braces
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Pumkin punchers
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Recoil compensators
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Receivers, including lower and upper
receivers
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Receiver extensions and pins
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Receiver wedges or buffers that tighten loose
upper and lower receivers
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AR-specific jig kits
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Revolving cylinder for a shotgun Selector
levers, detents, and switches
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Single point, 3-point, tactical, and quick
detach slings
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Sling plates and end plates
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Slide fire stock and weapons kits, such as:
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Bump firing devices, stocks, and kits
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Solvent trap oil filter adapters, solvent traps
and homemade silencers, and component parts for solvent traps and homemade silencers
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Any non-fixed stock, including telescoping,
folding or collapsible stocks
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Silencers or suppressors, including:
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Flash suppressors
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Sound suppressors
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Suppressors marketed or intended for
airsoft, air guns, or paintball guns
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Fake, mock, or faux silencers or
suppressors
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Takedown pins, pivot pins, cam pins, and roll
pins
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Threaded barrel adapters
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Thumbhole stocks
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Trigger activators, such as:
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Multi-burst trigger activators
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Trigger attachments
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Devices that facilitate so called
"bump-firing"
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All internal/moving gun parts, even when
designed or marketed for use with paintball, airsoft, or air guns, such as:
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Bolt catch releases, assemblies, actuators,
and battery assist levers
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Bolt carriers, bolt pins, and buffer
pins
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Buffer tubes, extension tubes, recoil
buffers, and related parts
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Firing pins, springs, and stops
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Guide rods
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Trigger, trigger assemblies, or fire
control groups
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Upgrade parts and replacement parts
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Anti-walk pins
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Firearm production machinery
Knives and other bladed products
Amazon policy prohibits the listing or sale of certain knives, including switchblades,
balisongs, stilettos, and some blades designed to look like harmless items.
Examples of permitted listings
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Knives: typical hunting or kitchen knives, such
as:
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Hunting knives
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Kitchen knives
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Replica swords
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Machetes
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Claw knives or karambit knives
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Throwing spears and knives
Note: These items are not eligible for sale
through FBA.
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Umbrella knives
Note: These are subject to geographic sales
restrictions.
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Spring-assisted or assisted-opening knives
that do not automatically extend
Examples of prohibited listings
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Automatic knives, also known as switchblade
knives
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Balisong knives, also known as butterfly
knives, including some training knives
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Concealed swords, including:
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Cane-swords
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Shobi-zue (a staff, crutch, stick, rod, or
pole concealing a knife or blade within it)
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Swordsticks
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Gravity or gravity-assisted knives
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Knives disguised to look like harmless items,
such as:
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Air gauge knives
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Belt buckle knives
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Comb knives or hairbrush knives
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Lipstick case knives
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Writing pen knives
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Knuckle knives, including:
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Fixed or folding blade knives with split
knuckle duster handles
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Pilum ballistic knives
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Push daggers, including:
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Punch daggers
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Punch knives
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Push dirks
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T-handled knives
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"Slasher" knives or other devices used in
cockfighting
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Spring-loaded knives
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Stiletto knives
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Throwing stars, including:
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Batman symbols
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Cyclone knives
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Kung Fu stars
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Metal throwing stars
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Ninja stars
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Shirken
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Throwing cards
Other products
Amazon prohibits the listing or sale of blunt force striking weapons, body armor, body
armor plates, and other dangerous weapons or items that can be used as dangerous
weapons.
Examples of permitted listings
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Blow guns
Note: These are subject to geographic sales
restrictions.
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Crossbows and other archery bows
Note: These are subject to geographic sales
restrictions.
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Nunchaku with sticks made completely of foam,
sponge, rubber, or another bendable substance
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Handcuffs
Note: These are subject to geographic sales
restrictions.
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Koga and kubotan
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Night vision accessories
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Pepper spray
Note: These are subject to geographic sales
restrictions and are not eligible for sale through FBA.
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Products with monkey fist knots that are made
entirely of rope
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Spearguns for spear fishing
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Self-defense stinger tools
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Slingshots, including wrist-brace
slingshots.
Note: These are subject to
geographic sales restrictions.
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Stun guns or electroshock weapons
Note: These are subject to geographic sales
restrictions.
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Tactical pens
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Torches, torch kits, and lighters for use in cooking or outdoor maintenance
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Traps for small vertebrate animals (such as mice or rats)
Examples of prohibited listings
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Body armor and any product including or
designed for the insertion of body armor plates. This includes bulletproof or ballistic
helmets and clothing.
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Caltrops
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Certain martial arts items, such as:
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Brass, plastic, or metal knuckles,
including spiked keychains and rings or any product held over one’s knuckles that
could be used to strike someone
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Leaded canes, staffs, crutches, and
sticks
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Nunchaku (also known as nun chucks or chuka
sticks)
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Sandclubs, sandbags, or slungshots (also
known as saps or blackjacks)
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Throwing stars (also known as shirkens or
shurikens)
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Tonfas
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Kusari-fundo (also known as manrikis)
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Clubs and blunt force striking instruments,
including items marketed for striking a person or animal, such as:
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Billy, billy clubs, and police batons
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Escrima sticks
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Rattan canes (when designed or intended as
a striking weapon)
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Bo staffs and jo staffs
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Truncheons, nightsticks, and batons
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Sjamboks
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Weighted clubs
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Blackjacks
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Bludgeons
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Sap hats, also known as slap hats
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Flamethrowers and flame guns
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Starter guns, starter pistols, blank guns, and other similar items
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Steel-jaw style animal traps, including leg-hold traps, foot-hold traps, and body
traps
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Weapons designed to be concealed
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Weapons or other items intended solely for law
enforcement or military use
Additional useful information
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Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and
Trade Bureau, which regulates the sale of many firearms and weapons.
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Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives
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The Bureau of Political Military Affairs' Directorate of Defense Trade
Controls is the organization within the U.S. Department of State responsible for
enforcing the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, 22 C.F.R. Parts 120-130. Items
controlled under ITAR may be found here.
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Federal Explosives Statutes18 U.S.C.40 and 18 U.S.C.44, which contain additional rules that
regulate and restrict many firearms and weapons.
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Importation of Arms, Ammunition and Implements
of War, 27 C.F.R. 447, which contains additional rules that regulate and restrict Firearms and Ammunition and Explosives.
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The U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security
("BIS") administers the Export Administration Regulations, 15 C.F.R. Parts
730-744. BIS has the licensing authority over the export and re-export of items considered
to be "dual-use". Items controlled under the EAR may be found here.
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U.S. Postal
Service, which regulates and restricts the transport of firearms, knives,
ammunition, explosives and other items.
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Example of toy gun laws: New
York's General Business Law - Imitation Weapons
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Last updated 05/22/2020