# WEB-126 — No firearms, ammunition or explosives sales on the site

> The brand website must not host or promote the sale of firearms, ammunition, explosives or fireworks.

- **Rule ID:** WEB-126
- **Layer:** Website (`WEBSITE`)
- **Checks:** `crawled website content`
- **Severity:** BLOCKING — Breaking this rule gets the submission rejected outright.
- **When it bites:** Gates approval — get this wrong and registration is refused
- **How it is detected:** AI judgement over the crawled website or policy page
- **Fix type:** Hard stop — not remediable, resubmission will not help
- **Required by:** Twilio, Bandwidth, Telnyx, T-Mobile, Verizon
- **Applies:** Applies to every 10DLC registration.
- **Canonical URL:** https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/website/web-126/

## Why this rule exists

Two carriers treat firearms as age-gateable and two providers ban them outright, so the same site is registrable at one destination and refused at another — and a brand that builds around the permissive reading discovers the strict one at submission. The harm the strict reading protects against is a channel that reaches a phone without any of the checks a gun sale otherwise carries.

## How to fix it

This category cannot be registered under the strict reading the registry applies. Where the business sells instruction, membership or non-firearm goods, separate that site from the sales catalog and register the one with no purchase path.

## Provider rejection codes

| Provider | Code | Resubmission allowed |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Twilio (gen2) | `30957` | no |

## Notes

Genuine divergence, not a strictness difference: T-Mobile §5.7 and Verizon treat firearms as age-gateable, Telnyx permits education-only content but bans sales, and Twilio and Bandwidth ban the category outright. The strict-superset model takes the outright ban as the default; a brand submitting only to a permissive destination should read this as a warning rather than a refusal.