No more gun sales at Walmart??

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There is a Long's Drugstore in Reno, by the airport, that sells guns, ammo, and reloading equipment, next to the 1-hour photo. It was so beautiful, tears came to my eyes. :D
 
Ace hardware in Sunnyside WA. still sells rifles and shotguns.
The WalMart in town also carries guns.
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I cannot find a Walmart in Monroe County that sells firearms. They still sell ammo and various airguns. St Lawrence County up northern NY I think still sells firearms. I'm not sure now because it's been about 6 years since I was last up there and we all know how fast state laws or company policies can change.
 
Standing Wolf said:
Maybe Wal Mart belatedly discovered guns aren't made in communist China, and so decided to drop them from the product roster.
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maybe they'll start carrying norincos and polytechs?:p
 
I could care less about the firearms sales. I've tried to buy a rifle from Wal*Mart twice, and each time was a pure nightmare scenario that had me gladly running to the local gunstore and paying $30 more.


As for ammo, that would be a shame from a convenience standpoint. But if the guns go - so will the ammo. Prices for ammo aren't that great at Wal*Mart. They are pretty good, but if you buy in larger quantity online, you can meet or beat Wal*Mart.


As to that I say ALL HAIL THE INTERNET!!!


I had a conversation with a local gunshop about this sort of thing. I boldly told the guy that I can buy anything he sells in his store for 30-40% less online, avoid taxes (which are often more than the shipping cost)..and these days customer service online is fantastic. These companies have good policies. He agreed, and said he will move onto the web over time. The Web is going to kill at least 1/2 if not more of gunstores. The only thing holding this back is the fact that a HUGE chunk of the gun buying population is over 50 years old, and either doesn't know how to use the web, or they don't trust it. This is going to change... The firearm world is going to shift to the web like a lot of other industries. Who can afford to pay the sky-high rent for a storefront on a busy road and compete with some guy with a cheap piece of land and a warehouse in the middle of nowhere with no overhead? Most gun dealers aren't making more than $25 on a firearm sale. By the time they get it shipped to them, go through the hastle - it isn't lucrative. Guns get customers in the store, then the customers buy accessories where the real money is. Some people refuse to buy online, they like face-to-face and like the customer service, talking with someone, and handling an item. Well, that's true, but the next generation doesn't care about those things. This generation coming up has no problem just ordering anything sight unseen online.


I'd say only the real large volume dealers who can buy lots of firearms, as well as have a large visable stores who often have a range - will be the ones to survive.
 
they're still selling guns n' ammo in West MO. Although ammo is what I'm mostly concerned with. I have a hunting gun and a shotgun, and now collect milsurp. Wal-Mart carries neither most of the milsurp ammo or has milsurp guns and therefore only gets my business when I want some 9mm fmj for a trip to the range.
 
Don't Tread On Me said:
I had a conversation with a local gunshop about this sort of thing. I boldly told the guy that I can buy anything he sells in his store for 30-40% less online, avoid taxes (which are often more than the shipping cost)..and these days customer service online is fantastic. These companies have good policies. He agreed, and said he will move onto the web over time. The Web is going to kill at least 1/2 if not more of gunstores. The only thing holding this back is the fact that a HUGE chunk of the gun buying population is over 50 years old, and either doesn't know how to use the web, or they don't trust it. This is going to change... The firearm world is going to shift to the web like a lot of other industries. Who can afford to pay the sky-high rent for a storefront on a busy road and compete with some guy with a cheap piece of land and a warehouse in the middle of nowhere with no overhead? Most gun dealers aren't making more than $25 on a firearm sale. By the time they get it shipped to them, go through the hastle - it isn't lucrative. Guns get customers in the store, then the customers buy accessories where the real money is. Some people refuse to buy online, they like face-to-face and like the customer service, talking with someone, and handling an item. Well, that's true, but the next generation doesn't care about those things. This generation coming up has no problem just ordering anything sight unseen online.
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Firearms aren't like most other commodities you can buy online, though. Every time I buy a video card, for example, I don't have to arrange for a local computer store to do federally mandated transfer paperwork.
 
Don't Tread On Me said:
Most gun dealers aren't making more than $25 on a firearm sale. By the time they get it shipped to them, go through the hastle - it isn't lucrative. Guns get customers in the store, then the customers buy accessories where the real money is.
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You obviously haven't been to our local super-huge gunstore. The biggest name in town, I GUARANTEE he makes far more than that. Considering he sells for over $100-200 ABOVE your average internet price. And people still buy from him. Accessories? Yeh, overpriced on those too. Ammo? You got it. He makes a killing(figuratively). I just don't understand why people go back to him.
 
Still them them here in SE Wisconsin Walmart, just long rifles and a lousy selection. I'd never buy them. The ammo prices cannot be beat! It seems from comments of others that the ammo prices aren't great at their local Walmarts. I simply have not seen better prices on internet, gun shows or otherwise. I buy Winchester Whitebox 55gr 223 ammmo box of 40 for $7.88 and 115 grain 9mm for $5.99. With the exception of Wolf,which I won't use, has anybody seen prices like this? I would love to make 1000rnd + order but can't seem to beat those prices..
 
walmart / no more gun sales?

i dont know if this is going to be natioanal, but i just went to a store and thye had no guns, far west houston, near the woods, he said they werent selling! this is happening in Texas,....TEXAS MIND YOU!
 
I will not shop at wal-mart do to the high level of chinese made products they sell, their anti-union stance and their blatant use of illegal imigrant labor. Still, I am guessing it must have stopped being profitable for them. Otherwise I cannot imagine them stopping.
 
Yes, they couldn't import cheap Chinese firearms into this country, so they stopped selling US made ones. :p Sounds like S.O.P. for Walmart. Can't stand those places, most any type of "Mega" store.

I like the sound of the title of that movie about Walmart that just went to DVD, Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price...
 
I work at Wal-Mart and we are selling guns here just as before. It is just a local thing when stores stop selling guns. We make too much money selling guns, ammo, and other merchandice to stop selling guns. Guns are not high margin items at Wal-Mart (Behold, I have the power to see what the store pays for stuff.:evil: ) but they do make our sales figures look good. We are planing on getting MORE gun stuff when our store goes Supercenter.

/BTW, buy more of that Atkins (Or any other diet stuff that doesn't work) we make a killing off of that stuff. (Serious)
 
There was a comment above about Remington going out of business if Wally World quits selling them.

I heard from a distributors rep that a few years ago Walmart bought a whole bunch of Remingtons, beat Remington down on the price, and when they didn't sell they forced Remington to take them back at a loss.

Wally has some business economics major sitting at a computer figuring out what every store needs. Individual store department managers can't order their own stuff, which is why they end up with 30-06's in Indiana that won't sell

I know for certain that they had a huge sale to clean out overstock right after Thanksgiving. One local store marked their last 2 11-87 3 1/2" down to $89...:what:

I do very little business at Wally World. They have pretty much been in the lead of destroying the America I knew as a kid
 
How about your local hardware store?
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The local hardware store, Bells Ferry Ace Hardware in Acworth, GA, sells guns, mostly Rugers and Marlins. I love the store and intend on getting one of the stainless 77 Frontiers from them.
 
This is probably worthless to this, but... I've noticed that the signs have changed from WAL-MART to WAL*MART, with a star instead of a dash... my sons came home from school one day telling me it was a change to represent the China star symbol... wonder if that could have anything to do with the gun thing?
 
One Wal-Mart near me quit selling guns about a year ago, SG guy in the brown vest said they sold the fewest in that store of any Ohio Wal-mart.

Other Wal-Mart neart me still sells guns, last time I was in there...about the middle of January.
 
I went into my local Walmart the other day to get some 9mm and they had moved the sporting goods section and built a whole new display for firearms. No more round-and-round things that allow you a close-up look without having an employee pull it out :mad: Oh well, I never buy guns there anyway. Though my 10/22 may come from there eventually.
 
Reliable sources say that Walmart's halting gun sales is a direct retaliation for unflattering threads about Walmart clerks and management on various internet gun forums! You have been warned! :uhoh:
 
Taurus 66 said:
I cannot find a Walmart in Monroe County that sells firearms. They still sell ammo and various airguns. St Lawrence County up northern NY I think still sells firearms. I'm not sure now because it's been about 6 years since I was last up there and we all know how fast state laws or company policies can change.
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You've got a PM ;)
 
LiquidTension said:
No more round-and-round things that allow you a close-up look without having an employee pull it out :mad:.
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ROFL... you can no longer take an airgun/airsoft package off the rack here. If you want to pick up the pistol's package, you need an employee to "unlock" the peg it hangs on.
 
1. THe 2 closest Slick Willy Marts near me are still selling firearms.
2. One of them is in a bad neighborhood and has all of the firearms accessories in locked cabinets. I wouldn't buy a firearm from this Slick Willy Mart anyway. The one time I looked at one, it was rusty! I talked about this with a SG employee at the other one. Apparently, the SG manager at that store dislikes firearms, and wishes he could stop selling them. He knows nothing about them.
 
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