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Walmart Is Running Out Of Guns
TBI ^ | 12-19-2012 | Kim Bhasin

Posted on 12/19/2012 8:21:22 PM PST by blam

Walmart Is Running Out Of Guns

Kim Bhasin
Dec. 19, 2012, 4:34 PM

Semi-automatic rifles are sold out at many Walmart locations, Matt Townsend at Bloomberg Businessweek reports.

"Searches of five kinds of semi-automatic rifles on Wal-Mart’s website showed them to be out of stock at stores in five states, including Pennsylvania, Kansas and Alabama," writes Townsend.

Walmart, he notes, doesn't sell guns online. Shoppers put in their zip code and the website tells them if their local store has a particular weapon in stock.

Meanwhile, Dick's Sporting Goods has suspended sales of rifles at its stores nationwide in light of the horrific shooting in Newtown that took the lives of 26 people, mostly children. But Walmart has decided to continue to sell guns, including rifles.

It did remove the description and picture of the Bushmaster AR-15 — the model used in Newtown — from its website after the shootings, and the model is still available in stores.

Walmart doesn't reveal the number of guns that it sells, but at an October analyst meeting the retailer mentioned that gun revenue increased by 76 percent in the first half of the fiscal year, according to Bloomberg Businessweek.

And it's not just Walmart selling out some of its gun models. A Texas gun shop owner told CNBC that the Sandy Hook shootings have "created a national shortage" of firearms.

"All of our suppliers are almost sold out of items across the board," said the shop owner.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; collapse; guncontrol; guns; retail; sandyhook; secondamendment; walmart; weapons
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1 posted on 12/19/2012 8:21:29 PM PST by blam
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To: blam
I wonder if Gun Companies gave to Obama?

He sure increase their sales

Poor Dick's Sporting Goods losing all those sales LOL

2 posted on 12/19/2012 8:30:16 PM PST by scooby321 (AMS)
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To: blam
Went by local Wally-World yesterday, normally pick up a box of ammo or two when I go by.
No 9mm, no .44, no 30-30, no 30-06 left on shelves.
Did buy two bricks of .22s and a box of 12 gauge 00 buck, figured better than nothing.
3 posted on 12/19/2012 8:33:18 PM PST by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: scooby321

Pretty smart business move. Take your stock off the market, reducing supply, other vendors run out, price goes way up, then reintroduce your stock to the market........


4 posted on 12/19/2012 8:33:55 PM PST by Red Badger (Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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To: blam

Walmart sells guns?

(s) nully in California...


5 posted on 12/19/2012 8:35:12 PM PST by null and void (Going Galt: The won't of the people)
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To: blam

This morning our WM in Wasilla AK had a full display case of guns that are popular right now though it did look like the pistols were all gone, every single one. But then in Alaska we have more rifles than pistols for a very good reason.


6 posted on 12/19/2012 8:40:40 PM PST by Eye of Unk (A Civil Cold War in America is here, its already been declared.)
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To: blam; Yehuda

Has anyone ‘shopped the Time magazine cover to read “Firearms salesman of the year” yet?

(So why *is* Obama purposely promoting gun sales? The natural result of his demagoguery and not-so-subtle threats - i.e. stampedes to the gun sellers - is too predictable to have been unintended and unforeseen.)

After all, the community organizer is a particularly malevolent, arrogant, and manipulative POS.


7 posted on 12/19/2012 8:41:23 PM PST by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: blam; Grampa Dave; Ernest_at_the_Beach; sergeantdave; Carry_Okie; NormsRevenge; BOBTHENAILER
Lead and brass... The New Precious Metals!!!

I'm more pleased with my new tagline every day!!!

8 posted on 12/19/2012 8:45:01 PM PST by SierraWasp (Blessed are they who prospect, dig & drill, for they are the primary producers of new, real wealth!!)
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To: blam
Walmart Is Running Out Of Guns

Craigslist prices will increase accordingly.

9 posted on 12/19/2012 8:50:13 PM PST by Alaska Wolf (Carry a Gun, It's a Lighter Burden Than Regret)
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To: blam
I am a week late and several dollars short. I just started looking for magazines. WOW! Magpul magazines were $12.50 last week (free shipping) are going for $50 this week and they are out of stock. I have mags, but I should have bought a dozen more the day of the shooting and then sold them on the uptick.

On the flip side I got a very nice AR-15 a week and a half ago that has all Vltor parts, except for a Krieger barrel.

10 posted on 12/19/2012 8:55:05 PM PST by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: blam

About a week ago, before the Newtown atrocity, I visited my local WalMart here in Maine.

I walked past the sporting goods, and then went over to the firearms display. I eyed over a Mossberg shotgun, and then admired an AR-15 in another display cabinet. It had a 30-round magazine, and the price was $747.00.

I’m going there tomorrow (for groceries, prescription drugs), and I’ll check out the guns and ammo. I’m sure the semi-automatic rifles have been purchased by other shoppers since my last visit.


11 posted on 12/19/2012 9:04:26 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (November 6, 2012.....A day that will live in infamy!)
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To: Ezekiel

If Obama were smart and really wanted to improve the economy, he’d have a presser tomorrow stating that he’s been going over highway fatality statistics and thinks it’s time to ban American made cars, especially those particularly nasty electric ones.


12 posted on 12/19/2012 9:04:40 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Alaska Wolf
Craigslist prices will increase accordingly.

C/L zots them when they see a firearm listing but people get inventive and title something like "S&W 2nd Amendment Tool 9mm Drill Bit".

13 posted on 12/19/2012 9:05:15 PM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
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To: USNBandit
10 pack of 30rnd PMags for $125

You're welcome and Merry Christmas.

14 posted on 12/19/2012 9:05:15 PM PST by Repeat Offender (What good are conservative principles if we don't stand by them?)
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To: steve86
C/L zots them when they see a firearm listing

Ooops, brainfart, I meant Alaska List...http://alaskaslist.com

15 posted on 12/19/2012 9:13:59 PM PST by Alaska Wolf (Carry a Gun, It's a Lighter Burden Than Regret)
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To: blam

Our part of the “dialog” about guns.


16 posted on 12/19/2012 9:14:23 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: The Cajun

I hope they’re being sold instead of pulled...


17 posted on 12/19/2012 9:14:55 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2
I hope they’re being sold instead of pulled...

Good question, the shelves were starkly bare of all calibers, not just the ones I was interested in.
Will probably go back Saturday with wife to buy some gift cards, will be interesting to see if they have restocked.
Sad thing where I live, it's Wally-World or drive 30 miles to the next town with a few gun shops and Academy Sporting Goods.

18 posted on 12/19/2012 9:39:26 PM PST by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: blam

Its Dems that are causing this shortage(demand increase) by inducing a panic.


19 posted on 12/19/2012 9:42:10 PM PST by sickoflibs (Dems know how to win. Rs know how to whine.)
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To: Repeat Offender

“10 pack of 30rnd PMags for $125
You’re welcome and Merry Christmas. “

Out of stock


20 posted on 12/19/2012 9:56:54 PM PST by rickomatic
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