Posted on 03/02/2018 7:24:48 PM PST by Rebelbase
[snip] "In the wake of this shooting we have reviewed our policy on firearm sales, and we will no longer be selling guns or ammunition to anyone under the age of 21"
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
Is this even legal? Can a business ignore state law?
It’s time to start a class action lawsuit - These companies are NOT acting independently to violate our civil rights they are falling in line with an organized attack on America.
They need to be punished. HARD.
The armed forces just raised the age too. I mean, right?
Stores in chicago,detroit,New jersey...
No gun sale changes with all the gun shootings before.?
Hypocrites.
L.L. Bean sells guns? Really? I thought they made boots.
Indeed. I don’t think I’ve ever put the thought of guns/LL Bean into my brain ever.
No shock that businesses are forced to sell the abortion pill to 13 year old girls without a prescription or adult’s approval.
Walmart is the one who may well regret this if they actually have significant gun sales. When Trump gets the changes he wants and sends out boxes of food rather than just ladles of cash Walmart won't have as much coming in every month on the EBT gravy train.
It really depends on what sort of profits Walmart is making from gun sales now and what they lose. Personally, I hope their gun sales go dead in the water and don't recover. One of the few categories of independent businesses still doing well seems to be gun shops.
Watch for Walmart to fight the change over to sending out food rather than sloshing out ladles full of cash.
JMHo & random thoughts
And this will stop all of the shootings by those over 21, how????
I never even knew they sold guns.
Of all the times I’ve been in the sporting goods section of WalMart I’ve only ever seen one person handling a gun from the locked case.
They’re not ignoring state law. They’re simply deciding who they’ll do business with and on what terms. That’s perfectly legal, if a bit silly in this context.
Sure glad I enjoy thrift stores.
This, and they are going to get sued big time.
Wait until a 20 year old women comes in to buy a home defense shotgun, they refuse and she is attacked later. I hope she owns Walmart or LL bean.
They can't do that. No more than a business that sells alcohol could say you have to be 25 or whatever BS they want to make up. Federal law is 18 to buy a long gun. As soon as these companies refuse to sell to a 20 year old they are committing age discrimination. They are violating the civil rights of the purchaser.
Sure, the most probable result will be for the companies to just not sell guns to anyone in those States but then at least their real intentions a perfectly clear and whatever business they were getting from their gun departments will be completely gone.
Legally, there would be no basis for a suit in such a situation. You have significant issues with duty, breach and causation in your hypothetical. As stupid, asinine, and ludicrous as these decisions are, they are business decisions. The marketplace should punish these poor decisions. However, that will require gun owners and conservatives to put our money where our mouth is. Idle threats to sue when no basis would exist won’t change the minds of these corporate demons.
I investigated a bit, and apparently they do sell a few rifles out of one store.
Was kind of surprised that they did it even there, they having made a decision 30 years ago or so, to sell overpriced pseudo-sporting clothes and pseudo-outdoor equipment to Yuppies, rather than high quality stuff to real sportsmen as they did in the early days.
But, of course, the sissies at LL Bean don’t mind living under the blanket of freedom that 18-20 year-olds who serve in the military or as policemen or firefighters provide them. LL Bean can KMA.
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