CONFIRMED: Walmart to Stop Selling AR-Style Rifles and Home Defense Shotguns

By Robert Farago

We’ve spoken with the Pratt, Kansas Walmart Sporting Goods department [not shown] re: reports that the store had stopped selling AR-style rifles and certain shotguns. We can confirm that Walmart HQ emailed the store – and others around the country – that the company would not be replenishing inventories of AR-style rifles and “personal protection shotguns.” The communication went out in March. (How this story flew under the radar is a miracle of modern PR.) Again, we’re awaiting official confirmation from Walmart, along with the reasoning behind their decision. Meanwhile, the end of Walmart AR-stye gun sales may have something to do with a related development last March when . . .

 

Trinity Church filed a lawsuit in Manhattan’s Third Circuit Court of Appeals. The lawsuit challenged Walmart’s refusal to allow a shareholder vote on Trinity’s proposal to stop sales of, you guessed it, AR-style rifles and “non-hunting” shotguns. From the Episcopal church’s website:

The proposal asked that Wal-Mart’s Board of Directors oversee the development of policies to guide management’s decision whether or not Wal-Mart should sell products that are 1) especially dangerous to the public, 2) pose a substantial risk to company reputation and 3) would reasonably be …read more

Source:: Truth About Guns