A fantasy: Walmart stops selling guns as a response to the shooting in its store.

[JudyM]

It is an opportunity to gain social capital, and social media responds with dramatic approval. The optics of this could start shifting the business of gun selling to where it is seen as pro-civic duty to discontinue selling guns. And this business shift finally starts moving the needle even among republican congresscritters who see the political economics of bucking public opinion as 2020 nears.

[Sherman A1]

1. Yes,

Sadly, A true fantasy.

[marble falls]

2. They have stopped selling rifles and ammo to anyone under 21 and also stopped selling all ...

firearms in New Mexico.


NM Walmart stores to stop selling firearms
By Stephen Hamway / Journal Staff Writer
Friday, July 5th, 2019 at 2:56pm

https://www.abqjournal.com/1336751/nm-walmart-stores-to-stop-selling-firearms.html

New Mexico customers looking to buy hunting rifles at Walmart will have to look elsewhere after July 22.

Earlier this month, Walmart announced that it is voluntarily giving up its federal firearms licenses, and will no longer sell firearms in our New Mexico stores. Tiffany Wilson, director of communications for Walmart told the Journal in an email that while Walmart stores in New Mexico don’t sell handguns and modern sporting rifles, a new New Mexico law could put it in the position of having to perform background checks on guns people acquire elsewhere.

“As a general merchandise retailer and grocer, Walmart is not currently designed to conduct background checks for private-party firearms transfers under New Mexico’s new law,” Wilson wrote.

In March, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed Senate Bill 8, which requires background checks on most gun purchases made in New Mexico. The law states that a federal licensed firearms seller “shall not unreasonably refuse to perform a background check” for a prospective seller without a valid license.




Its a start. Slow start but still a start. I boycott WalMart for its treatment of employees anyways.

[JudyM]

3. Yes, it's a start. The harder it is for anyone, anywhere in the US to buy a gun, the better!

There has been far too much loss to justify our current system. I’m hoping that we’ll get something passed ... that rethugs aren’t going to want to be on the losing side of the gun issue in their campaigns. Or better, maybe, that they’ll just lose because of the issue.

[Sherman A1]

4. That is good news, but I don't see it going much farther

I hope I am wrong, but that is what I see.