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The gun-rights group is angry that in a free market, sometimes people choose not to arm mass shooters.
Weeks after two deadly shootings in their stores, Walmart announced Tuesday that it would stop selling ammunition for assault-style rifles and handguns. The National Rifle Association (NRA), which claims to be the nations oldest civil rights organization and a fierce defender of the free market, responded by accusing the retail giant of attacking the Second Amendment.
Walmart faced considerable pressure from its own employees and customers to reduce or eliminate the sale of guns and ammunition in light of the latest deadly mass shootings. Stores in El Paso, Texas, and in Mississippi last month were the latest Walmart locations to be home to such attacks.
After making the announcement, the NRA quickly called the companys decision a shameful cave to the pressure of the anti-gun elites.
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NoMoreRepugs
(9,412 posts)the goobers....if you boycott Walmart where are you going to shop????
C_U_L8R
(44,998 posts)You know whats shameful NRA? Promoting killing and killing machines. Fuck off and...
JDC
(10,125 posts)Skidmore
(37,364 posts)about wanting to save lives?
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Paladin
(28,252 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Consumers are voting with their money (the only voice they have in the free market economy), and Walmart is adjusting to changing conditions. I don't know why the NRA is so concerned with Walmart making an informed free market choice. Perhaps the NRA is being just the weensiest bit disingenuous about the reason for their concern?
hunter
(38,310 posts)They quit selling this shit when they realized a large number of their customers who were buying guns and ammunition were gangsters or people buying guns for gangsters.
About the same time they put pseudoephedrine behind the counter and started asking for ID.
Walmart was libertarian until they decided it might be bad for business if it became common knowledge they were supplying criminals with guns and drugs.
tanyev
(42,550 posts)hack89
(39,171 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)TomSlick
(11,097 posts)Whatever limits the Second Amendments places on the government, it does not require any retailer to sell weapons or ammunition - much less a particular weapon or ammunition.