I stopped by Wal-Mart yesterday evening, looking for an inexpensive scope sight for a new rifle (that I bought elsewhere), and saw the work crew reinstalling the gun racks they removed back in the 1990s. They didn't have any riflescopes like what I was looking for, so I wound up going down the road a couple of miles, and bought a nice Nikon scope at Dick's Sporting Goods. The last time I bought a gun at my local Wal-Mart here in Florida was when they were closing out of the gun business, and I bought a really nice Norinco Chinese clone of the little Browning .22 autoloading rifle for $99. Wal-Mart used to be the place to go for cheap .22 ammo, and I'd buy it by the 500 round brick when I was grocery shopping, buying clothes of CD/DVDs, or other houshold stuff. When they stopped carrying guns, cut the selection of ammo brands and calibres, and put a limit on how much you could buy at one time, I took my guns and ammo business elsewhere, and a lot of my other business, too.
Wal-Mart jumped into bed with every anti-gun organization in America, thinking that would give them a leg up in building new stores in liberal places like New York and New England, where Wal-Mart customers who own guns are widely viewed as low-income, mouth-breathing, redneck, ignorant Bambi killers and potential low-life criminals. Since this is the customer demographic that made up most of Wal-Mart's business base, turning on them like this turned out to be a poor business decision, and the anti-Wal-Mart forces in the liberal states failed to stop fighting Wal-Mart's incursions, anyway.
