[F4GIB]

It's the first time that's difficult. After that it's easy.
What is Wal-Mart going to say to other cities and towns???

This fight isn't about handguns (or assault weapons) it's about HUNTING RIFLES (and shotguns, of course). Wake up, Sportsmen! They hate ALL guns and ALL gun owners.

"The concern was that this is an urban area and it's not appropriate for guns to be sold, particularly hunting rifles," said Travis Snider, president of the Snelling Hamline Community Council.


http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/news/local/6703867.htm

[TarpleyG]

There is a WW here in a slightly ghetto part of town and they have gotten rid of anything to do with guns or hunting. No ammo, no cleaning supplies, nothing. I don't know if it just because that stuff wasn't selling or for some other reason. On another note, in the same part of town, there is a Sports Authority on my way home from work. I stopped there yesterday to get a Dolphins jersey and they were lock with cables to the rack. They aren't locked to the rack on my side of town. Must have a thief problem and they also have an armed rent-a-cop out front. I doubt this SA will carry handguns after the first of the year as most others will.

GT

[Hkmp5sd]

Can't really blame Walmart for this one. No telling what kind of behind-the-scenes pressure was put on them to get the zoning and permits to build the store in the first place. There may even be a requirement for a local license for firearm sales that would prevent them anyway.

Be nice to see them set up a catalog in the sports section and order guns for people and let them pick them up at a nearby store or warehouse.

[Mark Tyson]

Oh, to live in the days when you could buy guns through the mail ....

[Double Naught Spy]

BAN

I don't think that word means what you think it means. Wal-Mart did not BAN guns. They have opted not to sell guns or ammo at a given store. That is not the same as banning guns. Using a highly charged term, "ban" relevant to firearms in order to draw attention to this problem is misrepresentation. If you want to complain about a business decision, complain about it appropriately. Better yet, let your opinion be known specifically to the company.

Are there any other products Wal-Mart does not opt to sell that you wish to complain about?

[Lone_Gunman]

I don't have a problem with Wal Mart doing this.

They are a private business. They are not being forced to do anything.

Let them sell what they want.

Lots of stores don't sell guns.

[longeyes]

Wal-mart is a private company? I thought they were an overseas colony
of China.

[Standing Wolf]

Wal Mart is my shopping destination of last choice: too much third rate junk from communist China.

[El Tejon]

Where the giant oak dies, one hundred saplings spring up in its place.

F4, would this not be good news? More business for the local Class 1s???

[Double Naught Spy]

A thousand points to both Lone_Gunman and El Tejon!

If my local Wal-Mart does not have a McDonald's in it like the one in the next town, does that mean they have banned McDonald's?

And, Wal-Mart is a publically owned but private AMERICAN company. Percentage-wise, it probably isn't any worse off in selling foreign goods than other notable American companies like Ford, Chevy, Dodge, etc.

[Hkmp5sd]

In my local Walmart, the McDonald's went out of business, closed up shop and left. They still sell guns though! :)

[F4GIB]

would this not be good news? More business for the local Class 1s???

No.
St. Paul and Minneapolis have already "zoned out" every small gun store. You can only sell guns here if they make up less that 5% of your floor space/sales (like pornography in bookstores).

Another good reason to aviod the city core while it rots.

[MeekandMild]

F4GIB, my sentiments exactly. The longer I stay out of the big city the more I find I have lost nothing there. I have nothing good to say about WW but I hope they prosper in the inner cities enough to redirect their efforts away from screwing up the economies of the small towns.

(I must say I find your handle admirable. The former F4GIBs I knew while I was in the service were invariably scholars and gentlemen. A terrible job; I suppose the slackers were weeded out in training.)

[Lone_Gunman]

F4GIB,

Your attention needs to be directed toward your city government, not Wal Mart.

Your elected officials are controlling sales of guns through zoning.

Vote 'em out.

[F4GIB]

Wal-Mart bought an abandoned K-Mart in a inner-city area. No other buyer was on the horizon. The city would have approved this deal even if they wanted to sell XXX videos.

They weren't zoned-out (there is a exception for "big" stores), Wal-Mart caved to very MINOR pressure. It's like they wanted to. They have no competators who sell guns because their competitors can't legally sell guns (but Wally could).

The point is that Wal-Mart needs CONSTANT pressure to maintain it's gun selling policy. WE can't forgive and forget or they'll take the PC way out.

[chaim]

I'm not sure this is an anti-2A thing. Several local Kmarts (where there are other gun related problems) and a Walmart or two have stopped carrying guns and ammo in some urban stores. The way it was explained to me (and it makes sense) is that it was simple supply and demand. Those stores only really carry hunting guns and there simply aren't enough hunters in poor urban areas these days, thus no incentive to carry guns. Heck, I've been to suburban Walmarts and seen guns with a thick layer of dust on them. I've seen them selling off the display model on clearance because they were discontinuing the model and the same gun was still there a year later. In stores like that I don't blame them for a business decision not to carry guns- they are in business to make money, not to hold on to inventory that costs money which they have trouble unloading.

[Tamara]

I think it is a mistake to attribute a hidden anti-gun agenda to Wally World. The only agenda Wally World has is a pro-money one, and it's pretty durn far from hidden, at that. If Wal-Mart had felt that it would've been profitable for them to sell firearms at that location, then you'd better believe that there'd have been firearms sold there.

[dandean316]

"The concern was that this is an urban area and it's not appropriate for guns to be sold, particularly hunting rifles," said Travis Snider, president of the Snelling Hamline Community Council.
When are the deer and duck hunters going to wake up? They want ALL guns banned, not just handguns. It's amazing the number of hunters I talk to who don't care about the constant chipping away at our freedoms. As long as they can bag a deer every year, who cares if handguns are banned? I assume most on this forum just by being here, are concerned about political issues with firearms. It's the guy out at the club who may be an NRA member (just to get Amer. Rifleman), doesn't know or care about carry issues or range protection, and may vote "if he has time" that gets me.

For me, I could care less about a AR-15 with a bayonett and a folding stock. But I sure as heck am writing and calling my elected officials demanding the AWB sunsets. So when all the hunters are eventually shooting ducks with a single shot shotgun, and the gun banners try to take that away, good luck fellas.