Wal-Mart halting gun sales by area

Pioneer Press ^ | 04.15.06 | MARCUS KABEL

[El Gato]

Sounds like good business sense to me. I mean, does Wal-Mart stock snowblowers in their south Florida Stores? ;)

Tell me when you hear of them increasing the floor space devoted to guns and hunting supplies somewhere. Not cutting it doesn't count.

[El Gato]

Who writes this crap? Retired generals?

That particular crap, and crap it is, was a description of the position of union funded, anti WalMart group.

[El Gato]

I have to agree with you. In this area I know of only 2 stores, other than WM that sell firearms, and both are primarily hardware stores.

That used to be, pre 1968, very common. Many hardware stores, and other sorts of stores as well, would sell firearms. This was especially true in smaller towns . I know I used buy my "ammo" at the hardware store, but that was steel BB's. Although I did buy some house brand ammo, and could have bought a shotgun or a rifle at a Holiday convenience store and gas station as late as '75 or '76.

Of course in those days you could buy house brand firearms and ammunition at both Sears and Wards, and could order them from the Penny's catalog (but after '68 you had to pick them up at a retail store).

[BurbankKarl]

I thought I could get a good price on ammunition at Wal-Mart, but that wasnt the case....ammoman.com beats all!

[Graybeard58]

(but after '68 you had to pick them up at a retail store).

Political assassinations may have had a lot to do with that, with the libs firmly convinced that guns were some how responsible for the deaths of the Kennedys and MLK.

[BurbankKarl]

No, Wal-Mart doesnt employ illegal aliens....good grief!

(but a lot of illegals shop there!)

[Gabz]

I was very surprised at how few places there are around here to purchase firearms, considering how rural this area is.

[G.Mason]

"That particular crap, and crap it is, was a description of the position of union funded, anti WalMart group"

No doubt about it.

I was suggesting "retired generals" because those traitorous scum suckers have been all over the alphabet media shilling for our enemies.

[ExSoldier]

I have never contemplated buying a gun from walmart, to small of a selection and no handguns and they are limited on ammo selection.

I wouldn't buy a gun from WallWorld either, but they have had some of the most spectacular sales on shotgun ammo I've ever seen. Don't know how this move will affect stores in South Florida. A number of chains like Walmart have pulled the same move in this area. Still, the best deals are to be had at the gunshows. As far as ammo goes I have seen some great deals on both practice and defense ammo at CLICK HERE

[AlexW]

"Any time there's a Wal-Mart thread, some moron posts something like this."

Yes, even on FR, there is a group that hates Walmart.
I suspect that they are mostly union thugs, and the others are sore because they were fired from their job as a "greeter" hahaha

I think Walmart is just fine, and where I buy most everything that I need.

[Donald Meaker]

The clinton administration changed the rules to make it harder to sell firearms.

I don't blame anyone who changes their business model in response to changing business climate.

I don't hate the player, I hate the game. I want to make the laws such that Walmart would want back in to that market.

[AlexW]

"Claim by WalMart - we are halting gun sales in about 1/3 of our market because of lack of demand."

Whats the big deal? The anti-Walmart crowd on here was saying that Walmart sold only low end guns that were not worth buying. Is it really all that hard to find a gun shop?
I don't think so.
There just continues to be the "hate Walmart crowd" that will complain about anything Walmart does.
These people need to get a life.

[napscoordinator]

No, Wal-Mart doesnt employ illegal aliens....good grief!

(but a lot of illegals shop there!)



I don't know why you are saying this to me. This was not even close to what I said on my post, but you know as long as Walmart stock keeps going up (I have quite a bit of shares). I will support them. I am getting sick of everyone bashing an extremely effective store that has given to the economy more than most stores. IF IF IF they hire some illegals, I was proof.

[Eaker]

Fountain Firearms in Houston rocks!

I might buy socks at Walmart, but I buy my guns at a gun store.

[Hot Tabasco]

Hey, I buy my guns there too!

I also like the fact that its the only store I've ever been in where they are actively smoking in there too! Adam is good but Bob is a virtual encyclopedia of knowlege. Pre-hunting season in the fall the place is a SRO madhouse.......which tells you alot about their reputation.

[P8riot]

Good for you folks that have an Academy Sports, Gander Mountain, or Carter Country near you; but there is absolutely no place I have found in the Richmond, VA area where you can get 9mm target ammo as inexpensively as Wally World. There are some sporting goods stores in our area that stock the 100rd boxes, but usually for 3 to 4 bucks more per box that W-M. When you shoot as much as I do (I have a few full auto guns) that's 60 to 100 bucks more a month, plus gas to drive the extra 25 miles each way. I'd handload 9mm, but W-M is even cheaper than that.

I usually buy in bulk online, but that is often more expensive than W-M and I also have to wait for it. I can go to the local Wally-World (less than 2 miles away) and pick-up 1000 rds of Winchester Wite Box and spend a little more than 100 bucks (tax included).

[Beagle8U]

"I doubt that'd be feasible. I wonder if special order guns would still be available in these stores? (You can special order some stuff that they don't stock) That would solve it."

I think you totally missed the points I was making.

I'm not one of the Walmart- bashing trolls that show up on every walmart thread.

I support walmart and like the company, I don't like the fact that they bowed to the will of the unions and the anti-gun moonbats that would never shop there for anything.

A big part of this issue is political, and walmart's upper management that failed to recognize that fact before making this decision is either stupid or incompetent.

I can understand some of the smaller gun shops being happy about this too, they want more business. But even they need to pull their head out of their a$$ and realize that the groups that want guns out of walmart will start on them next.
And guess what folks, those smaller gun dealers wont have walmarts cash to fight them off.

This is an anti-gun issue and the anti-walmart liberal groups have teamed with them to push that agenda.

This isn't about selling tomato plants in the NE, or snowblowers in Fla., its about banning guns.

I'm rather surprised that more FReepers can't read between the lines on this one.

[FreedomCalls]

"This decision is based on diminished customer relevancy and demand in these markets," said Wal-Mart spokeswoman Jolanda Stewart.

Can Walmart's pharmacy not carry the morning-after abortifacient pill "based on diminished customer relevancy and demand" in certain markets?

[Gabz]

I understand your point about liberal gungrabbers and other anti2A types - but I'm not seeing that here or else I'm missing something.

If a product isn't selling well in a particular store, it makes sense to remove the product from the shelves regardless of what the product is. there are numerous products that I can now buy in the WalMart I shop in Maryland, that are not stocked in the WalMarts I used to shop in Delaware. It seems that WalMarts in the more sparsely populated real rural areas (like where I live now) tend to stock different items than the ones that are in and or near larger towns/cities (like where I used to live).......supply and demand, I guess.

But wiht that said - as I said in my initial post - if the anti-WalMart bahsers and thugs like it - it can't be good.

[Erik Latranyi]

Wish a Cabela's would open in Nazi Jersey. I'm not holding my breath.

...coming to Rutherford next year!