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You probably don’t think of guns when you think of Etsy, the marketplace known for handmade goods and vintage items. Indeed, the site prohibits the sale of firearms and weapons. But on Monday, Etsy announced a new update to that policy: banning most “imitation firearms.” The reasons cited were safety (“the risk that these items […]