Posted September 5, 2019 2:13 pm by Comments

By Greg Camp

Walmart Caves To Anti-Gun Groups , iStock-494315703

Opinion

Walmart Caves To Anti-Gun Groups, iStock-494315703

Fayetteville, AR -(AmmoLand.com)-Following up on the 2015 decision to stop selling various semiautomatic rifles deemed icky by gun control advocates, Walmart announced on Tuesday (3 September 2019) that the chain’s stores will cease selling rifle ammunition that can be used in “military-style weapons” and will no longer stock handgun ammunition or sell handguns anywhere.

In addition, customers will be asked not to carry firearms openly in Walmart or Sam’s Club stores. These changes are being made in response to several mass shootings in recent months.

Legal open carry—sort of, since the law is unclear—came to the whole of Arkansas a few years ago (it had been legal in Van Buren all along), and it was in a Sam’s Club that I first saw someone taking advantage of the new law in this state. The recent incident in Springfield, Missouri, may have suggested an alteration of store policy to the corporation’s headquarters.

The influence of gun control pressure groups was undoubtedly a factor as well. But there are a couple of points that Walmart should bear in mind.

For one thing, while the stores exist in many places …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand

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