Wal Mart to stop selling guns?

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I hope that those of us who think it's good to support our local "mom and pop gun stores" aren't the same people who complain when "mom and pop" don't stock what they want, charge high prices, give bad service, or give wrong information.

I also hope that the people who tell us to support our local "mom and pop gun stores" behave ethically. They must never buy guns, ammunition, or supplies anywhere else--not from friends, or at gun shows, or from other gun owners who try to sell what they have on Internet forums, or from Internet dealers--and buy only from their local "mom and pop gun stores."

I'm sure that's what they do. :)
 
Wal-Mart has Target executives. They made the decision to phase out all guns, ammo and hunting sales completely.
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Believe me, our Walmart is not takeing out the guns. They moved the hunting section, though (and everything else- remodeling), and are building new cases for the rifles. Its hectic back there, right now, but it will look good when it is finished. I do remember when I walked in there during remodeling, and the whole sporting goods section was gone. I almost sh*t a brick. I did not realize that they would be shuffling every department around. It is a whole lot harder to move through the store now, though.

I wouldn't not care is Wally World shut its doors forever!
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I would. We buy most of our groceries and other stuff from them. It would also be the end of cheap ammo for me. I mean, the dealer that I use is a great guy, but he does not have a good selection of .22LR or .30-30 because he mainly deals in EBR's and such. He is the only reasonable place in town besides Wally World, though. The other gunstores charge way too much.

Now, lets drop the "Walmart going out of gun business threads" Use the search feature, please?
 
Wal-Mart has Target executives. They made the decision to phase out all guns, ammo and hunting sales completely.
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Where does this kind of bogus information come from? Who is "they"? I mean, have you even looked at the people running Wal-Mart or are you blindly repeating something you read on a gun board that was read another gun board that was overheard in a gun shop that was told straight from his father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate who had a friend who dated someone who worked in the sporting good section of Wal-Mart?

None of members the Board of Directors are from Target:
http://walmartstores.com/GlobalWMStoresWeb/navigate.do?catg=502

Only one of the senior executives was from Target, John E. Fleming and he only recently moved out of advertising: http://www.walmartfacts.com/content/default.aspx?id=5

If you really want to make stuff up, blame it on Leslie A. Dach, he was involved with the Democrats before coming to Wal-Mart! Oh no!
 
seriously, walmart isnt a huge gun place. like the one near me, it has hunting rifles. crappy ones at that. no pistols, only a few shotguns. mainly just crap. the ammo selection is good, but ammo does you no good when you cant get a gun. anyways, if your buying guns from walmart, your getting screwed around.
 
Can't we just have a "Wal-Mart is making a marketing decision in some stores to do away with merchandise that isn't selling well in THOSE stores." Sticky thread?

It really would make things easier.

Just because the average Wal-Mart consumer in some areas of the country isn't buying enough rifles to make a whole deparment useful doesn't mean that Wal-Mart is out to turn all of America into the soviet union. My word, I didn't see this kind of outcry when they stopped selling Garbage Pail Kids cards in the '80s.

You know Home Depot doesn't sell rifles OR ammo .... communists most likely.

I guess I could understand the indignity more readily if Wal-Mart was a gun store that turned into a depatment chain as opposed to a department chain that happens to sell guns. If I owned a department store and one of my departments wasn't doing enough business to justify having it around, I'd likely get rid of it too. Even if it was the "gun counter."
 
if your buying guns from walmart, your getting screwed around.
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How? My family has made two purchases of firearms from walmart. We brought two Win. 1300 12 gauge shot guns in Dec. 1999 (had to get ready for Y2K) and a Ruger 10/22 a couple of years ago for me. All three of the weapons are of great quality and were priced right.
 
Oh Carp !! I've still the "Evil Retail Establishment de Jour (tm) Stand" setup selling Torches and Picthforks over at Target from when they kicked out the Marines for recruiting/soliciting.


Well, I guess that's where the "de Jour" part come in......:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

Don't worry guys, I'll get the stand moved over to Wal-Mart in the morning. :neener: :neener: :neener:
 
The present CEO and upper echelon don't care for firearms, so they
don't deserve my business.
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I guess I must have missed the Walmart upper echelon's implementation of anti-gun policies in the stores, or their donations to the Brady Bunch or other gun prohibitionist organizations. In any event, I used to work for Walmart and have spent, well, let's just say a damn good bit of the money I made working there on guns and gun-related stuff. And I know I'm not the only Walmart lower-level employee who's done that either. So I can tell you that a good bit of money that goes into employees' pockets goes back into advocacy of our rights, at least if you count gun-related purchases. What about those lower-level employees' opinions? Do you care about those? Or how about their money? :mad: I can understand having a problem with the upper management's opinions, but before I go off not spending money at a place and sticking it to good people who have done nothing wrong I'd like to see some proof of its upper management's mendacity.
 
None of the gun shoppes around me stock WWB value packs, not a single one of them.
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That is because Wal Mart and other mega corporations have deals with the ammo manufacturers to sell the bulk packs exclusively to them. They have the buying power to do that.
 
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So yes, save a few cents per round buying your ammunition at WW, but what is it going to get you in the end?
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It will make me ashamed that I even contemplated setting foot inside
a Wal-Mart store.:barf:


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Its good to see people hate the free market economy so much
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This view makes me giggle every time I see it. If Wal-Mart is your opinion
of "free market economy", we should have a little chat.;)
 
in somewhat rural Newton, Kansas population about 15,000 they still sell all the same ammo and guns that they always have.

In Wichita, pop 350,000... there's 4 walmarts...the one in the highest-crime lowest income area has stopped carrying ammo and guns. The much smaller counter that sells hunting/fishing licenses has a sign that says "All other Wichita Walmart locations sell Ammunition and Firearms."

It's the oldest Walmart and has the least room and is least secure of all the walmarts around, maybe that has something to do with it. They're also the least busy.
 
True, Whited. It's more of a "Monopoly", IMO. Some of the scenarios painted in this thread Are good for a chuckle. If you want to frequent a "Mom And Pop"..that does not exclude the odd jaunt to Academy for a "Value Pak" if Mom And Pop are closed for whatever reason...or you just want to stock up.

It's an age thing as well. Not all the posters here can recall stand alone businesses that specialized in one service.

It's America, thank God, and we can shop where we darn well please. :O)
 
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I'll jump in, I haven't participated in the Walmart threads before.

If Walmart drives your local little guy gun shop out of business, they deserved it. Walmart sells mostly crap. There are many things that they don't sell, that a small shop could. You don't compete with Walmart, you sell things they don't but at a price that doesn't make it worth my time to mail order stuff.

Quality optics, or even a reasonable selection of cheap optics.
Quality optics mounts.
Handguns
AR/AKs/SKSs/C&Rs/ etc. etc.
Useful cleaning supplies
Used guns.
etc.
etc.

Does it bother me that Walmart is getting out of the gun business? No because they didn't sell any guns I liked anyways.

Local shops around me are run by extremely grumpy old buggers who either don't have what I want, or are asking way more than I know things cost (litterally 2x sometimes). Gunshows and Walmart are about the only two places I can get stuff, and I am getting extremely weary of both.
 
I will be seriously bummed if Walmart gets out of the gun business, because ammo is significantly cheaper there than at any of my local dealers and they consistently stock the target ammo I need. I do buy ammo at my local gun shops from time to time, but only because I'm already there for something else and its convenient. The only exception is defensive ammo, because the local shops are the only places to get the "good stuff" like Hornady XTP and Remington Golden Saber.
 
Walmart, as far as I kow has not ever issued a "Policy" or "Philosophy" statment regarding firearms. they will sell anything that sells, and will stop selling anything that doesn't make a profit or achieve a "threshold".
some stores have HUGE bike areas, others only have single rack. Some have ATV eqipment, some don't. and some sell guns, and some don't, all based on how any they sell.
The store in Midland Texas, sells reloading stuff, including powder. The dept is run by a woman, who knows her stuff. Three other stores in the area, do not sell reloading stuff.
It all depends on the market.
 
I stoped by the local Wal-Mart Saturday night in nearby Fuquay-Varina,NC. They had pulled all the guns two weeks ago acording to the lady in sporting goods. She said she heard that only the top 200 gun selling stores in the state will continue selling them. I need to check out the store in Dunn to see if they still do I imagine that they do as there right off the highway and a super wal-mart.

Brian Craig
 
our local walmart's pulled there guns a while back and more recently pulled there ammo off the shelves and replaced them with golf balls:fire:
 
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