Heard a NASTY rumor ... Walmart firearms and related products?

[Joe the Redneck]

Looks to me like we're SPREADING nasty rumors.

Oh, did you hear about Taurus, or about Soringfield Armory?

Can you believe what Bud's Gunshop did?

Got a questions about Wal-Marts guns, call them up and ask them, then ask the manufacturer.

At least try to get some facts, if you are lied too, well, at least you tried to be professional. Rumor mongering is just highschool non sense.

JTR

 

[strat81]

Was the rumor nasty? Or was it a rumor about Walmart being nasty?

All I'll say is that every round of ammo of the few thousand I've bought from ammo has gone 'bang.' Can't ask for more than that from bulk pack ammo.

 

[George Hill]

You mean like Leupold's Chinese made Rifleman series? Yeah. We know that one.

 

[SpeedAKL]

Sounds like a rumor that doesn't stand up to logic. Let's take the Remington 700 for example. Wal-Mart sells the lower-end 700s and usually has a pretty good price on them. The 700 has been an extremely popular rifle for many years now and there are countless people out there who can strip down a 700 and tell you about every component of the gun. I'm assuming that Wal-Mart sells quite a few of them since they always have one or two sitting around. Now, if Wally-World 700s were using low-quality components, it would get out pretty quickly since enough people know about the 700's design and build specs to tell the difference. It would result in lousy publicity for both Wal-Mart and Remington to sell rifles that aren't up to normal working spec.

We gun guys are rightly suspicious of many establishments in our society, but we can get a little carried away with the conspiracies sometimes.

 

[Mark_from_Iowa]

All the people fretting about the business practices of WM need to take a look at the most intellectual treatment of the subject to date. I refer, of course, to South Park.

Here's the short version:
1) WalMart sells cheap things in volume, reducing costs to consumers.
-corollary to #1: Saving money is good for most families.

2) People invariably think that WM is "bad" or "controlling" them.
-corollary to #2: Wal Mart is a business, not an omnipotent being.

3) If you don't like WM, don't shop there.
-corollary to #3: If you stop shopping there, you are proving the point of WalMart's existence.


As for the original question:
No, WM is not conspiring to sell large volumes of death-trap guns, dud ammo, or self-destructing scopes.

As for Vlasic pickles, Rubbermaid, etc:
Nobody forced them to massively expand their distribution, revenue, or infrastructure. Also, WalMart is not a trickle-down charity for "Mur'can" workers. Sheesh. Exercise your own dollar-vote, but spare us the invective about TEOTWAWKI if we buy Chinese paper plates.

 

[Jeff F]

All of the firearms that I have seen that came from Wal Mart looked to be the same as from anywhere else. I do know that some of the Goodyear tires they sell like the Vivas that they used to sell were only available at Wal Mart. I had a set that we wore out and went to a Goodyear tire shop and they said those tires were only sold through Wal Mart. So some things maybe yes, but guns I don't think so. The firearms I have seen at Wal Mart are about the cheapest of the models made by the manufactures.

 

[chieftain]

Wal Mart has put no supplier out of business.

The management of that supplier put them selves out of business.

These people must always remember the magic word.

NO!

More judgment and less greed has kept some businesses like snapper mower in business by selling less, and saying no to Wally World.

To typically American to blame someone else for their own problems.

Can't do business with someone, don't. IF you think you are smarter than they are, and better than all the others that went before you, then go ahead. Just don't write a book whining about how badly you were treated.

Frankly sounds like the American Socialist party, sorry, the Democrat Party. It is always someone else's fault, and we can make it work, even though no one else ever has.

Go figure.

Fred

 

[Rugerlvr]

Frankly sounds like the American Socialist party, sorry, the Democrat Party. It is always someone else's fault, and we can make it work, even though no one else ever has.

There's no need to bring politics into this. We're talking about market forces, and what you've said amounts to an ad hominem attack.

 

[Art Eatman]

Looks like we've pretty much gotten away from the point of the thread...