Posted on 04/15/2008 12:18:10 PM PDT by neverdem
Largest seller of firearms will also videotape all transactions
Changes at Wal-Mart will affect about 1,100 stores that sell firearms.
WASHINGTON - Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest seller of firearms, announced Monday it will toughen rules for gun sales, from storing video of purchases to creating an internal log of which guns they sell that are later used in crimes.
J.P. Suarez, the chief compliance officer for Wal-Mart Stores Inc., appeared with outspoken gun control advocate Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York to announce the changes at a gathering of Bloomberg’s group Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
Changes to come at about 1,100 Wal-Mart stores selling guns include:
Creating a record and alert system to record when a gun sold at Wal-Mart is later used in a crime. If the purchaser of that gun later tries to buy another gun at Wal-Mart, the system would alert the sales clerk of the prior buy and could refuse to make the sale. Retaining the recorded images of gun sales in case law enforcement wants to view them later as part of an investigation.
Expanding background checks of employees...
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Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, had previously tried to establish a store in New York City but failed.
The mayors’ gun summit also unveiled a new lobbying effort to close what they call the “gun show loophole,” which allows sales of firearms without background checks between private individuals at gun shows.
Bloomberg founded the group two years ago with Boston mayor Thomas Menino to reduce the flow of guns from store displays into the hands of criminals.
The group, largely funded by Bloomberg’s personal fortune, announced it was spending more than $100,000 on television ads, starting Wednesday, featuring all three of the current main presidential candidates voicing their opposition to the gun show loophole.
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There are privacy laws, the whole ridiclous HIPA or HIPPA or HIPPO, or whatever thing.
If Wal-Mart just starts bandying infomation about its customers around willy-nilly with said customers knowledge and consent, then I think they can expect said customers to sue their little Wal-Mart @sses.
boycotting kmart worked.....no need to buy in a place that reduces our freedoms.
does this mean if firearms are reported as stolen, it doesn’t erase the ahem, negative report on walmarts system?
Is it time to boycott walmart like we did kmart? ;)
LOL That’s pretty kewl...
How many long guns go through ATF traces? Wal-Mart is just kowtowing to gun grabbers. The grabbers are antsy. That's been good for us since 1994. They stifled themselves in 2006, and the GOP lost Congress.
“Ceasefire Tampa Bay”, “Ceasefire New Jersey”, and “Ceasefire PA” are all the same people.
Hmmm...
Conspiracy to Violate Civil Rights
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00000241——000-.html
Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00000242——000-.html
Any lawyers out here?
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