After two fatal shootings at its stores, Walmart is cancelling handgun-ammo sales
Walmart won’t meet all your guns-and-ammo needs anymore. Photo: Barbara Alper/Getty Images The nation’s top retailer, Walmart, is a bit of a red-state cultural symbol, in part because of its prominence in small-town America and in part thanks to its conservative business practices — including hostility to unions and an unwillingness to offer socialistic things like health insurance to many of its “associates,” i.e., its employees.
It’s in ammo sales that Walmart has been a really big contributor to the lethal-force industry, and that will change, to a degree, at least: The memo in which Walmart announced these policy changes was jam-packed with “to be sure” language cushioning the blow to those customers who may think the company has gone all PC:
McMillon made it clear that this “request” didn’t affect those legally carrying concealed weapons, and he hastened to add that the open-carry restriction would be enforced in a “nonconfrontational” way. Presumably, that means the greeters won’t grab your hand cannon while offering you a shopping cart.
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