Does Your Wal-Mart Have Handguns?

Does Your Wal-Mart Have Handguns?

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Only when I'm there!

^ Touche.

Plenty of long guns around this area but they bailed on handgun sales completely a few years ago.

Best ammo deals around though. I love Wal Mart.

Jorg said:

Walmart announced it would stop stocking handguns in US stores back in 1993 ...

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Agreed; that sounds about right. IIRC, you could order handguns through a catalog for some time after that, but they've stopped doing even that.

All the Phoenix metro stores I've been in carry at least ammo; some have a fairly large selection of long guns, too.

All 3 sell long guns, ammo and reloading components.

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Metallic cartridge reloading components or front-end loader loading components?

Alaska is the only state who's Wal-marts sell handguns yet. Company policy, I believe.

Not in Denver.

I am not personally aware of a single Walmart that sells handguns any more. Folks here say they do in Alaska, but I have not been there.

Long gun sales have been centralized or regionalized in areas where there are a number of Walmart stores present. I have 19 Walmarts within 50 miles.

Not only margins, but stupid lawsuits. The one in Denton, just up the road a piece, sold a rifle to someone who subsequently committed suicide with it.

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Lawsuits have never dictated to the brass heuvoed giant. They could care less about lawsuits. They are sued on a regular basis for everything from preditory practices to exploitation of woman to immigration to federal wage & hour. Those suits have yet to bite them in their boyttom line but P&L and point of sale concerns make 'em crazy.
They simple opt to sell TP over Marlin 60's...BTW, they are also deleting their yardage/ fabric depts for the same reasons. There's a trend here that shouldn't go unnoticed by the rural crowd especially if you equate rural to guns and sewing.

CRITGIT

The 2 Wal-Marts I go to (1 in Northern KY, the other in East TN) both sell long guns and ammo.

The only handguns they carry are airsoft.

Whenever I visit a Wal*Mart I know there is at least ONE handgun there, maybe two!

Walmarts here don't sell long guns or handguns. Supposedly they stopped selling the long guns because they couldn't keep enough people on the payroll who could properly fill out the 4473 forms. At least, that's what I heard was the reason they stopped selling guns here.

You can still buy ammo at some (but not all) of the Walmarts in SoCal. I pick up my shotgun and handgun ammo at Walmart. They sell rifle ammo as well but I get it somewhere else. Oh, and cleaning supplies, gun cases, slings and the like are also for sale.

Handguns? The ones local to me are lucky to have somebody that can find the key to the ammunition supply, let alone the caliber requested. Must have the collective IQ of a box of rocks. Mostly, they just look at you like you are from another planet and shuffle off, don't even think about calling a manager/supervisor.

That I know of, no Walmarts in Ohio have handguns. My local Walmart doesn't have guns at all anymore, not as though that's a big loss. They never had anything besides vanilla hunting guns anyway. They still have lots of ammunition and have moved it into a case on the floor where you can actually see what they've got and how much it is without going behind the counter.

New Walmart in Truth or Consequences only sells ammo, hunting supplies, not even a muzzleloader. But they sell all the paintball assualt looking junk that will get kids hurt/trouble in a hurry.

Just as well they don't, we need more old time gun shops. We have only one that just changed owners. We also have a rifle range with berms in 100 yard increments out to 650 yards and you can drive to each berm. Covered concrete patio shooting benches. It needs a gun shop next to it.
Any takers?

My wal-mart doesn't sell NFA guns. They must be anti.

My wal-mart has an auto service department, but they don't sell cars - they are economic opportunists who want to deny us the freedom to travel.

5 of them within approximately 10 miles. At least 2 sell long guns. None sell handguns. At least 4 sell ammo...even 7.62x39...but no .41Magnum.

Does Your Wal-Mart Have Handguns?

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nope haven't seen a handgun in a wal mart in a long time, since i was a kid.

"My" Wal*Mart Store (I go to several, this one the most) on Randall Road in Geneva, IL doesn't have any guns whatsoever. The Gander Mountain about 500' away has many, so I guess it evens out.

Actually, this VOL FAN is 'bout 43
miles NNE of T-town (Tuscaloosa). WAL-MART does not sell any
handguns; and prohibits them from being carried on their property.
Therefore, I don't frequent their business; and try to discourage
others from shopping there as well. It used to be, that all items
sold by Wally World were made with American Pride; indicated
by the small American flag decals on those items. Nowdays, I'd
bet you can't find six itmes in any WAL-MART, that was not made
in China. No thanks SAM WALTON, as you lay in your grave I will
not support your dream~!

I heard walmart in alaska sells handguns.

Anyways, for Fort Walton Beach, Florida, they only sell rifles and shotguns here, where i'm moving (Navarre), they don't have any guns but they have ammunition.

Nowdays, I'd bet you can't find six itmes in any WAL-MART, that was not made in China.

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Well, most of the food, batteries, and tires are not made in China. Almost all of the clothes, appliances, electronics, and a lot of the plastic injection moulded stuff are (notable exceptions are the nice Plano boxes they sell). It isn't like 100% yet.

Walmarts here don't sell long guns or handguns. Supposedly they stopped selling the long guns because they couldn't keep enough people on the payroll who could properly fill out the 4473 forms. At least, that's what I heard was the reason they stopped selling guns here.

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As an exercise look over a Wally World Employment App sometime.
Via the personality profile, they purposely set out to hire those with low expectations of the company and themselves. Consequently they have many folks who couldn't stay on the page as it pertained to the necessary firearms forms. CA after more than one incident and action finally rescinded their ability to sell firearms for a specific time. During that time WW used the space to appeal to a more sub urban customer which is their objective almost everywhere now.

WW was just cheap enough on guns to put most local shops out of business....Now some of these communities have little or no sources.
Watch for vanishing firearms!

CRITGIT

None in my state show handgun, in fact most now have none except for the one in North Conway NH.

I bought at auction in my area cases and long gun display cases for penny's on the dollar that came from the closed to firearms Wall-Marts.

They dropped firearm sales not due to political pressure in our state but due to not getting employees capable to keep the records needed for an FFL.

The North Conway Wal-Mart has a Retired FFL holder working for them. He Knows how to run an FFL.

I manage an 07 manufacture FFL and gun shop 30 miles away.

They can beat me on ammo prices but not on the guns. Wall-mart stuff carries the bottom line. We do not.

The manager sends customers to us for any thing beyond their line.

I hope they close more of their stores selling ammo. It will become profitable for us to stock ammo again, instead of sending then to Wally-World.

No guns at my Walmart. They have ammo but the keep it so well hidden behind the counter I can't see what they have or how much it is, so I don't bother... (of course nobody is working the counter to ask either)