Walmart is to stop selling ammunition for assault rifles and handguns

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Walmart
has announced it will stop selling ammunition for assault rifles and handguns and will ban customers from openly carrying firearms inside across its 4,177 stores.

The company will also stop selling handguns in Alaska, the only state where it sells them.

It comes in the wake of two deadly mass shootings, one of which occurred in one a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, during which 22 people were killed.

The company's CEO Doug McMillon made the announcement in a memo to employees on Tuesday.

'After selling through our current inventory commitments, we will discontinue sales of short-barrel rifle ammunition such as the .223 caliber and 5.56 caliber that, while commonly used in some hunting rifles, can also be used in large capacity clips on military-style weapons,' he wrote.

More reported here...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7423799/Walmart-stop-selling-ammunition-assault-rifles.html
 

Too little, too late. Do the right thing Wal-Mart, and stop selling everything that is gun related, including toy guns. You're the world's largest retailer and you can afford to set a good example.
 

I haven't seen an "assault" style weapon in any of our local Walmarts for years....we live in "hunting" country, and everyone around here knows how worthless those weapons are for hunting. If Walmart stops selling ammo, there is a good sized hunting/fishing store about 6 blocks from our local Walmart, and that store will probably see a major uptick in business. I do a fair amount of target shooting, and reload most of my own ammo.
 
What do you think, are they looking for a reason to take our guns. Get rid of the (blank) that allows unstable persons to buy gun..See something say something.
 
norman said:
What do you think, are they looking for a reason to take our guns. Get rid of the (blank) that allows unstable persons to buy gun..See something say something.
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If you saw a guy who was really angry, spitting nails angry, walking down the street with an AR-15 in his hands - headed for a grade school, would you call 911? If you saw that would you say something?
 
I guess I will not be assaulting any birds, this hunting season. no more shotgun shells, (for the assault style shotguns), or any caliber, that can be fired out of a gun.
 
omg a Supermarket that sells ammo -what the hell is America doing ' wonder why they have gun problems with kids etc ……live and learn !!.
 
Patio Life said:
If you saw a guy who was really angry, spitting nails angry, walking down the street with an AR-15 in his hands - headed for a grade school, would you call 911? If you saw that would you say something?
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I hope that never happens to me, but yes.. I called 911 on an adult that was throwing rocks at cars and the dispatcher said it had already been reported. I would always call 911 if I see a person with a gun in hand on the street. I called 911 when this guy was naked on the sidewalk and the dispatcher chuckled and said okay, whats the address. I called 911 when I saw a cow on a state highway, the dispatcher said, is it a brown cow lol someone had already reported it. I think everyone calls 911 if they see something...
 
Camper6 said:
And if you were a good guy with a gun, would you shoot him?
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Nup, that is a police job, unless they were shooting at me or actively shooting at other unarmed persons, but if it happened if possible I would try to shoot them in a leg rather than kill them. I often wonder why police don't shoot persons running away from them in the lower extremities rather than several shots in the back.
 
norman said:
often wonder why police don't shoot persons running away from them in the lower extremities rather than several shots in the back.
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Because police aren't trained to shoot to wound. Discharging their firearm is considered deadly force. Shooting to injure would not stop an aggressive person. It would have little effect on the person trying to kill others.
 
So do you dispute the NRA's claim about a good guy with a gun is the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun?

That's right. You can't shoot first. The police are still in danger from a wounded guy. Stop means stop.
 
Gemma said:
Because police aren't trained to shoot to wound. Discharging their firearm is considered deadly force. Shooting to injure would not stop an aggressive person. It would have little effect on the person trying to kill others.
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To me it doesn't appear that they have much training at all. They just seem to use the "spray and pray" technique.

Take the following three examples where you have the cops firing a total of 224 rounds to kill 4 unarmed suspects. That comes to 56 rounds per kill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Amadou_Diallo
The four officers fired 41 shots[8] with semi-automatic weapons,[9] more than half of which went astray as Diallo was hit 19 times.[1][10]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Amadou_Diallo#cite_note-YouTubeGladwell-10

https://www.rt.com/usa/police-shoot-hall-saginaw-240/
Video has surfaced of an altercation filmed earlier this year between six officers with the Saginaw, Michigan police department and a homeless man. The cops shot 49-year-old Milton Hall 46 times, killing him.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/police-shoot-137-times-into-car-after-chase-killing-unarmed-couple
Take the Nov. 29 shooting deaths of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams in Cleveland: After leading police on a 25-minute chase through city streets, Russell found himself surrounded in a dead-end in East Cleveland. Police have said that they opened fire when Russell tried to run one of them over. That version may eventually be tested in court, but what is undisputed is that 13 officers unloaded a total of 137 bullets into Russell’s 1979 Chevy Malibu, killing both him and Williams.

In an interview with The Daily Beast, Williams’s uncle, Walter Jackson, said that 24 bullets had been removed from her body and the damage to her face and torso was extensive. Williams’s mother, Martha Mae Williams, said, “I’m not going to let them close her casket … They’re going to have to look at what the police did to my child.”
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And if you were a good guy with a gun, would you shoot him?
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Camper, no. I might have wandered into a movie scene being filmed!

But then, I am not exactly a big fan of people walking around armed with guns anyway. Good guys or not, it's so easy to misunderstand.
 
Trade said:
To me it doesn't appear that they have much training at all. They just seem to use the "spray and pray" technique.
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I'm sure @911 will verify they do get training and understand the meaning of using deadly force in a given situation.
Perhaps some of the new rookies get an adrenaline rush and need to learn how to control it or, realize they weren't cut out for this type of work.
 
Bottom line: Either we take all guns or leave the status quo as is. Election results concerns are the reason we are being killed without repercussions. Without a federal mandate overriding all states laws either way noting will change. How many people must die before we say the constitution no longer applies to what we have become? What good are your civil rights if you are lying on the sidewalk full of bullet holes?
 
mark55 said:
I guess I will not be assaulting any birds, this hunting season. no more shotgun shells, (for the assault style shotguns), or any caliber, that can be fired out of a gun.
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You will still be able to hunt birds this hunting season. A real hunter doesn't need an AR type weapon unless he is hunting herds of buffallo.
 
Camper6 said:
You will still be able to hunt birds this hunting season. A real hunter doesn't need an AR type weapon unless he is hunting herds of buffallo.
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A 55 grain .223 round would be pretty much worthless for Buffalo hunting. As for shooting a bird on the wing out of the sky, that would be about a one in a million instance of blind luck.

The Buffalo Hunters of the 1800's preferred the .50 caliber sharps rifle.

 
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norman said:
Nup, that is a police job, unless they were shooting at me or actively shooting at other unarmed persons, but if it happened if possible I would try to shoot them in a leg rather than kill them. I often wonder why police don't shoot persons running away from them in the lower extremities rather than several shots in the back.
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If you need to shoot someone, you're taught to shoot "center mass". Too easy to get hit with return fire if you're seeking out a non-lethal zone. That applies to police, military, and most concealed carry classes. The use of deadly force is not open for interpretation. It is called deadly force for a reason. As for running away, how difficult would it be for a perp to turn and start firing if only wounded? Police are human too, and just want to go home at the end of the day.
 
hollydolly said:
Walmart
has announced it will stop selling ammunition for assault rifles and handguns and will ban customers from openly carrying firearms inside across its 4,177 stores.

The company will also stop selling handguns in Alaska, the only state where it sells them.

It comes in the wake of two deadly mass shootings, one of which occurred in one a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, during which 22 people were killed.

The company's CEO Doug McMillon made the announcement in a memo to employees on Tuesday.

'After selling through our current inventory commitments, we will discontinue sales of short-barrel rifle ammunition such as the .223 caliber and 5.56 caliber that, while commonly used in some hunting rifles, can also be used in large capacity clips on military-style weapons,' he wrote.

More reported here...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7423799/Walmart-stop-selling-ammunition-assault-rifles.html
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I wonder how they will decide what "assault rifle"ammo" is?
 
applecruncher said:
People who want to murder others and career criminals will find a way to get guns and ammo regardless of what Walmart or any other retailer does and regardless of what laws are changed.
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Yep -- drugs are illegal, and yet they are everywhere. I don't see how it would be any different with firearms.

I do, however, believe that we should make assault type weapons and accessories that can turn a weapon into an assault type weapon, etc., illegal to sell or possess (except by police officers). I simply do not see how a member of the public can justify needing such weapons.

And as to handguns and hunting rifles, shotguns and such I don't think most of the gun owning public would ever simply surrender them. If somebody came around here asking me to surrender my weapons, I'd suddenly remember that they all went down with a fishing boat in 1962. And without suspending all sorts of constitutional protections, I don't see police being able to get a warrant to come in a person's house to search for them.
 

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