Weekend Rallies Planned To Pressure Walmart To Stop Selling Guns

By Tom Knighton

Walmart is the single largest retailer of firearms in the country. While the selection of guns at the retail giant tends to be a little slim–they don’t sell handguns or modern sporting rifles, after all–they still sell firearms from time to time. Enough so that the company has said it has no plans to stop selling firearms despite the El Paso shooting, which took place in a Walmart.

A lot of people don’t seem to respect Walmart’s decision, though.

Instead, they want to pressure the company into halting all sales of guns and ammunition in the wake of the deadly shooting. To do that, they’re planning a set of rallies to try and force Walmart’s hand this weekend.

Calls for Walmart to stop selling firearms grew louder as a coalition of unions and organizations said they would stage rallies nationwide this weekend to pressure the country’s largest retailer to use its influence to push gun reform.

Guns Down America says that Color of Change, MoveOn, and the American Federation of Teachers are among the organizations joining it at Walmart stores across the U.S. to not only call on the company to stop selling guns, but demand that it …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms