FPC Slams Corporate ‘Virtue Signaling’; Age-Based Gun & Ammo Bans Illegal

By AmmoLand Editor Duncan Johnson

SACRAMENTO, CA —-(Ammoland.com)- Following an announcement by Dick’s Sporting Goods CEO Edward Stack, Wal-Mart announced that it, too, is taking steps to impose an age-based ban on firearm and ammunition sales, and removing items “resembling assault-style rifles, including nonlethal airsoft guns and toys” from their online ecommerce website. “Our heritage as a company has always been in serving sportsmen and hunters,”—not all law-abiding gun owners, competitors, and people purchasing common semi-automatic firearms and ammunition for self-defense—Wal-Mart said in its February 28 statement.

Following in Dick’s and Wal-Mart’s footsteps, food giant Kroger, which owns the Fred Meyer chain of general merchandise stores, today took additional steps to end sales of semi-automatic weapons and imposed a new ban on sales of all firearms and ammunition to law-abiding Americans under the age of 21.

“If these corporations are going to put themselves on the wrong side of a bitter culture war over our Constitution and Second Amendment rights, then law-abiding Americans are going to take their business elsewhere,” commented FPC Grassroots Director Richard Thomson. “Dick’s, Wal-Mart, and Kroger are alienating millions of their customers and going out …Read the Rest

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