Walmart IS America - there's just so many who don't want to embrace what we really are.
Saying Target represents us is just shilling for a better image - as a sharply dressed anti gun nation.
Is the gun department in Walmart boring, yes. It always has been. Trying to compete on the firearms level to attract "Target" gun buyers failed - because it's an edge market. Most Americans aren't hunting geese with tacticool shotguns, their kids don't plink rabbits with AR 22's. Americans by and large are usually about 40 years behind the cutting edge of guns being made, or fielded in the armies of the world.
That is exactly the reason for all the hate for AR's - but as time changes we are going to see them continue to grow in market share. 25 million prior service men and women generally come from -? America, not the big cities, and they are bringing home what they learned in the service about the AR. And generally, grandpa, it's not that big a deal. Maybe better - is what they are saying.
And it's their grand daughter telling them.
Nobody likes to admit it - but Walmart is a mirror of who we are as a nation. Goes to service, too. There's another view of what constitutes service - I work retail - and I get upscale customers in like last night, who wanted me to 1) sell him a bolt for his diesel fuel injection system that he knew was missing, and 2) guarantee it would fix the drip of fuel it was making onto the exhaust header.
I couldn't do that. Poor service on my part, I guess. I suggested he park it at his mechanic to get it fixed before it caught fire. Nahh, more poor service on my part. I didn't fix his problem. People think that they can get high level skilled service by simply insisting on it from anyone. I say their expectations of what constitutes good service are what the problem is.
Walmart is a SELF SERVE store - expecting good service means you need to pick up your end of things first -