Walmart responds to 'suspended ammo' story

World Net Daily ^ | January 14, 2013 | Chelsea Schilling

[HiJinx]

The blogosphere has exploded with outrage in response to news that Walmart is suspending ammunition sales in anticipation of the Obama administration’s gun-control recommendations to Congress – but the retail giant tells WND the reports aren’t true.

“That information is inaccurate,” said Ashley Hardie, a spokeswoman located at Walmart’s corporate headquarters in Bentonville, Ark.

WND then asked whether the retail chain is cutting back on orders of ammunition.

“No,” Hardie said. “We’re continuing to serve our customers as we have in the past.”

She said Walmart’s ammunition sales policy has not changed, even amid talk of gun-control legislation in Washington, D.C.

The uproar began when the InvestmentWatch blog posted a story headlined, “Breaking & confirmed: Walmart is not going to order any more ammo.”

CNS News cited the report, and talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh mentioned it during his Monday show.

According to the InvestmentWatch report, a man claimed to have visited his local Walmart and noticed the store was “out of almost every kind of ammo.”

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[HiJinx]

Either the Wal-Mart story was wrong to start with, or the company has decided to change back to their standard policy for ammo sales.

[Jonty30]

It was probably wrong at the start. Gun owners, in just a few months bought enough weapons and ammo to outfit China and India.

Good luck keeping up with the demand under those conditions.

[mylife]

Good for Walmart.
Kmart caved on ammo and gun sales after Columbine and that
was the end of Kmart.
That and they stopped selling that cool canned bacon. ☺

[Slings and Arrows]

Ping!

[SpaceBar]

So Churchill was right about boots and the truth.

[Sybeck1]

Rush taking about this must have pushed some clarification on wally world stance

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Truth is, the government bought it all up and there is none in the distribution channels for Walmart to order.

[Lancey Howard]

"Bacon.... Mmmmmm..."

[pallis]

All I know is that our local Walmart had plenty of ammo, and then they didn’t, right after the school shooting and Obama’s anti gun demagoguery.

[mnehring]

A story that originated on a blog was wrong? Shocked!

[null and void]

IIRC, the original report was from someone who overheard a clerk attempting to order more and being told by corporate that they were not accepting any more orders for ammo.

Not that they were out, but that they wouldn’t be getting any.

[mylife]

Man I miss cheap ammo and that bacon. Two things I always picked up before I head for the hills for the weekend.

[mylife]

“Don’t leave home without it”

[Paleo Conservative]

That makes me hungry.

[RandallFlagg]

My Wife was doing a search at the WalMart website tonight, and informed me that there were three boxes of 9mm Luger ten miles north of us.
I drove up there to get all three boxes.
They would only allow me to buy two boxes.

[RitaOK]

OMGosh! LOL! “cool canned bacon”!

ROTFL!

[Jonty30]

Perhaps, but I suspect an unknowledgeable clerk misunderstood what corporate head office stated. I’m in retail and I can tell you, from experience, what cones fro. Corporate is often misunderstood.

It’s good to getvob top of it and hold Wal-Mart accountable nevertheless.

[mylife]

I’ll fetch the eggs and tobasco.

[WildHighlander57]

The government doesn’t buy ammo from Wally world.

They get it via contracts with manufacturers.

It takes time to write proposals, find potential suppliers, evaluate them, then award the contract.

Bureaucracy moves s l o o o w l y.

[mylife]

It was 99c a can in the 80’s

[expat1000]

>>Either the Wal-Mart story was wrong to start with, or the company has decided to change back to their standard policy for ammo sales.

The original story had a WM manager picking up the phone to order some. That was pretty much a giveaway that it was somebody’s idea of a fun prank. It’s probably been several decades since chain stores ordered stuff that way - it’s all computerized now.

[RummyChick]

Photos on the net from all over of empty show cases with no ammo. Sold out.

Maybe New York will have some. They are trying to pass a law right now that you can’t own 10 or more firearms. What about collectors????

[RitaOK]

SPRAYING now! Have you no pity? You can’t be serious! ROTFL! My side hurts! STOP!! :D!!

[mylife]

What about people that like good deals? I almost bought a crate of 10 SKS's for $650.

Woulda turned a nice profit. They are selling for $400 a pop now.

[mylife]

It was great stuff. I would always have at least 3 cans of it in my camper at any given time.

[the OlLine Rebel]

End of K-Mart? Au contraire. They’re not gone. In fact they bought Sears. But they sure did shrink.

[plain talk]

It was probably wrong at the start. Gun owners, in just a few months bought enough weapons and ammo to outfit China and India.

That makes sense but we'll see what these businesses do to minimize the fascist wrath thrown their way

[mylife]

Yes, and the shrinkage came after they stopped selling guns and ammo.

[null and void]

It’s good to getvob top of it and hold Wal-Mart accountable nevertheless.

Yep.

If it wasn't true, the reaction will keep it from being true in the future.

[Spktyr]

Didn’t pass the smell test. All ordering at Walmart is done by computer, not by phone.

[blam]

Seems like the US government is at war with it’s citizens, eh?

[Spirochete]

Woulda turned a nice profit. They are selling for $400 a pop now.

On my out of a recent gun show, I saw a box-grade Russkie on a table with a $1,700 price tag.

[steve86]

And this afternoon at about 1PM I was told to my face by the elderly Wal-Mart sporting goods clerk that ammo was "on hold" and wasn't being resupplied. This is consistent with not accepting any more orders for ammo, computerized replenishment or not.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Actually they’d been struggling for years since the rise of Wal-Mart. And apparently c.2000 they had a major scandal with CEOs absconding with what money they had.

[mylife]

The Russian ones do bring a better price but $1,700?!!!

[mylife]

At any rate I miss being able to get cheap ammo and canned bacon there.

[X-spurt]

Walmarts is a smart capitalist company. They are not going to intentionally miss out on millions on the sale of legal goods. The story could have been second hand heresay.

The problem at Walmart’s ammo is that for this particular product, they haven’t much leverage in their routine “supply us first or we won’t carry” threats, so they must compete for ammo and they sell out most of any shipment within a few hours. Guess you gotta be friends with the Ammo Counter Guy.

[MaxMax]

No frill firepower. I would have been all over two crates of those.
Where did you find that offer?

[RummyChick]

I suspect this is a distribution issue.

It shows the American Psyche.

Tell us we can’t have something or supplies are limited and the race is on to get it.

At least the gun and ammo manufacturers are going to have a good year this year.

[Jane Long]

End of K-Mart? Au contraire. They’re not gone.

OK, but do they still have the canned bacon?

[tomkat]

IMHO, this needs to be in Breaking

[rolling_stone]

same exact thing happened to me today “on hold” they didnt say they wouldnt get more but had no idea when...

[mylife]

I think Aim Surplus had them like 6 years ago.

[gleeaikin]

Why would anyone want to buy “made in China” ammo. If their quality control is like some of the other products we have heard about in recent years, I sure would not want to bet my life and safety on it.

[steve86]

Walmarts is a smart capitalist company. They are not going to intentionally miss out on millions on the sale of legal goods.

Walmarts (sic) has become a politically correct company and is perfectly happy to miss out on minor profit opportunities to appease their liberal overlords. Zoning decisions and building permits depend on government approval and are infinitely more important to the company than a few pallets of ammo. Why don't you stop it at a WalMart yourself and find out when you can expect the next shipment of 22LR?

[G Larry]

The story at multiple Denver area Walmarts is:

The Walmart warehouse is out of ammo and nobody knows when they’ll get more.

The individual stores have not received any formal word on any new Walmart policy on carrying ammo.

[G Larry]

Magpul PMAG is said to have backorders for 30 round mag’s, in excess of 1 Million units.

[steve86]

I'm sure you're being facetious but the Remington and Winchester ammo I bought at Walmart today was all “Made in USA”. And actually Walmart has a lower percentage of Chinese-made goods overall than some other chains, surprisingly.

[MrsEmmaPeel]

Walmart is backtracking. I've seen it before. Home Office has one idea --ie, remove the door greeters, some notice and complain -- Walmart says: "oh, we're not eliminating the door greeter, we're just repositioning them." ... But in truth, the door greeter position was eliminated (I have a friend in corporate HR on the elimination of the door greeter project.). Ammo sales fall into the exact same pattern.

Walmart will do anything not to be in the cross hairs ...

[2ndDivisionVet]