Mystery of missing Wal-Mart firearms continues

[ScottsGT]

Me thinks there is more to this than Wal-Mart just not wanting to sell firearms anymore. No, not tinfoil hat stuff, just the bottom line. If anyone wants to put a product on Wal-Marts shelf, they practically have to GIVE Wal-Mart the product, and a LOT of it. Sometimes they even want the patent rights on now products coming out on the market. I'm thinking the firearms distributors that sell to Wal-Mart got fed up with their elitest attitude and told them to shove it. Admit it, when was the last time YOU bought a Wal-Mart rifle? Me? never. I avoid Wal-Mart like the plague. Why? It takes more time to check out than it does to shop!

 

[jobu07]

they just stopped selling guns here in Fredonia NY, although they still were a couple of weeks ago in Hornell, well I'll find out friday if they still carry them there, although my money is on that they don't

They do.

 

[Third_Rail]

I buy things at Walmart. Everything I buy has to be made in USA or Canada. I check labels. I've never bought firearms from them, ammo twice (before I moved out of MA and can now mail order).


Doesn't bother me a bit - no one I know around here bought firearms from Walmart - always went to the gunstore.

 

[cane]

EL TEJON, both the Arrowhead Gun shop and Murphy's Outpost have closed. Only 2 left in Kerrville, are Gibsons and Hill Country Arms.

 

[The_Antibubba]

"Why don't you just move???"

"As California goes, so goes the rest of the country.."
Not always true, but the first I heard of Wal-Mart discontinuing firearms sales was several years ago out here in CA. The word was one or more stores got caught by the BATFE selling to folks who shouldn't have been sold to. Wal-Mart at first announced that guns sales would be on hold pending the retraining of their sporting dept. staff in proper gun-sales procedures. And then they extended the hold. Finally, they announced that they would no longer sell firearms at all. Now that decision has spread throughout the country.

Ladysmith understands.

I don't subscribe to the conspiracy idea of a great anti-gun lobby forcing WM to remove guns. But after they took them out of Cali stores, they probably didn't see the loss of profits that they expected. Whatever else one might say about WM, they are very profit driven. FWIW, if Sam Walton were still alive I don't think we'd be seeing this.


And Hey All-Welcome to California.

 

[Titus]

Normal gun world progression

"Don't buy from Wal-mart! They sell seconds and put gun shops out of business!"

Then...

"Wal-mart is giving in to the anti-gunners! They have to keep selling guns!"

Now, I shall wait to go to the gun shows and wait for the stories of...

"This gun is from Wal-mart, before they stopped selling to civilians."
or
"Of course this gun is worth $2,000. It was from Wal-mart and Sam Walton made them build them so good, they could't keep up price-wise with gun stores selling cheap stuff and had to get out of the business. They don't make them like this anymore!"

The best way to sell something in the gun world is to stop selling it.

 

[rcupka]

Ypsilanti , MI Walmart

I stopped by to purchase some ammo last night and the two store clerks indicated they would no longer be selling Guns after July 1st. They said that they will still have ammo though. Although I have seen a couple of gun sales during the two times I happened to be there in the last two weeks. They have been very low end guns, not the type most forum members would be likely to buy (low end bolt action 22's, and low end shotguns). She also indicated they would be stopping their special order program at the stores that would no longer carry guns. She then proceeded to list several other Michigan Walmarts that would remain selling guns, so I tend to believe that it is purely an economic / profit related decision.