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Originally posted by k5blazer:
The local Wal-Marts banned possession of weapons years ago. No concealed carry, no open-carry, nada, so no effect on me there. Can’t remember the last time I bought ammo there. Bought a rifle back in the 90’s and a manager had to walk the rifle out to my vehicle. Made the customers nervous if the buyer walked it out he told me. Didn’t like how I was treated so I never bought another firearm from them. After August 3rd the city is placing a police officer at all the stores 24/7. I guess now they will really enforce the weapons ban.

I wouldn't consider myself a "regular" Walmart customer, in years past I would shop maybe once or twice a month...in recent years maybe once a month for a few small specific items. While I wouldn't call it common I would frequently see customers carrying openly in Walmart as well as in stores such as Walgreens and grocery stores such as Safeway. I once came across an attractive young lady wearing a cowboy hat, skirt, cowboy boots and sporting a very nice ornate western rig complete with some sort of revolver. As we passed each other I smiled and said "nice rig" and continued on.

The carrying of guns is common here, mostly concealed but open carry as well.

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Originally posted by a1abdj:

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Bullshit. So we should just all lay down and let them do what they want?

We already did. Voting with your dollars matters when your dollars matter. Walmart is no longer concerned about your dollars, because the dollars you have given them throughout the years has been sitting in their bank account collecting interest.

My point isn't that you shouldn't "do something". My point is when that "something" should be done. Because if you wait to do something, often times that something no longer matters. The time to spray water on a fire is when it's just the couch burning. If you wait until the house is fully engulfed you're too late.

If you're just now figuring out that something needs to be done about Walmart...well you're too late. That's not defeatist. That's reality.

That's not the way business works and is so far off base it's laughable. Quick case in point: which company launched a Woke Campaign last year and just announced an $8 billion write-down b/c of consumer choice? What was their pre-existing market share and what did they recently do?
Leave business to the professionals and stop spouting your nonsense.

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Leave business to the professionals and stop spouting your nonsense

Yeah! What could I possibly know about business?

Wal-Mart had $514,000,000,000 in revenue last year. Should we revisit this in a year to see how big of a lesson gun owners teach them?

I’ll make a point to mark it on my calendar so you can rub all of this nonsense in my face next year. I’m confident you’ll surely show them.

Out of curiosity, where will you be shopping now? Target?

Walgreens just joined Kroger and Wal-Mart

https://www.reuters.com/articl...ontrol-idUSKCN1VQ2C7

Who buys ammo at Walgreens??

Who's next? QuikTrip? Some nail salon in a strip mall?

I purchase ammunition either from my LGS or from online vendors. Let all these corporations jump on the crazy train. They just need to make sure that the train stops at Go Fuck Yourself, which is the stop right before I Don't Need You.

Although I've never seen any ammo or gun related items at Walgreens, we used to have a chain of Long's Drug stores that used to sell guns and ammo. We regularly stopped at Long's Drugs to buy ammo and targets on the way to the range. I used to chat with one of the Long's Drugs clerks and she was active in local Cowboy Action Shooting events. At one time they used to keep their guns and ammo displayed in the open, but after gang-bangers stole some guns and ammo they moved the guns behind the counter.

Unfortunately Walgreens bought Long's Drugs and that was the end of gun and ammo sales.

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Originally posted by a1abdj:

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Leave business to the professionals and stop spouting your nonsense

Wal-Mart had $514,000,000,000 in revenue last year. Should we revisit this in a year to see how big of a lesson gun owners teach them?

I’ll make a point to mark it on my calendar so you can rub all of this nonsense in my face next year. I’m confident you’ll surely show them.

Out of curiosity, where will you be shopping now? Target?

As of last year 43% of all U.S. citizens were gun owners so it's not just me that Walmart might piss off, which this thread attests to. Let's see them absorb a significant decline from that part of the population and continue to thrive.

As far as open carry bans, it might be that we are at an all time high as far as media saturation of anti-2A bullshit, compounding the non-gun public's fear, resulting in companies perhaps not wanting to trigger these folks.

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Originally posted by Modern Day Savage:

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Originally posted by Ogie:
I stopped by today and bought up most of their WWB 45 ammo. The guy at the counter said when they run out of handgun ammo they won't order any more. I left them a 200 pack of WWB in 45. If it's still there in a few days, I'll pick it up too. When all their range ammo is gone, so am I.

Oh, and I like when people make excuses like; I hate Walmart, blah, blah, blah, I never go there EXCEPT when they have (fill in the blanks) something I really need at a good price. So hypocritical.

And yet you don't see the hypocrisy of your own practice? Oh, that is rich.

I guess you have problems with reading comprehension.

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Originally posted by Ogie:

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Originally posted by Modern Day Savage:

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Originally posted by Ogie:
I stopped by today and bought up most of their WWB 45 ammo. The guy at the counter said when they run out of handgun ammo they won't order any more. I left them a 200 pack of WWB in 45. If it's still there in a few days, I'll pick it up too. When all their range ammo is gone, so am I.

Oh, and I like when people make excuses like; I hate Walmart, blah, blah, blah, I never go there EXCEPT when they have (fill in the blanks) something I really need at a good price. So hypocritical.

And yet you don't see the hypocrisy of your own practice? Oh, that is rich.

I guess you have problems with reading comprehension.

Read just fine. Your own words indicate you just purchased ammo from Walmart and may go back for yet more ammo, and when it is gone you will stop shopping there...and then you go on to criticize others for making excuses and continuing to shop there...and you don't see the hypocrisy in that?

OK, guys. Let's remember that our real enemy is outside of this forum.

Perhaps its that anti gunners see they cannot win their war on guns in the courts and in the legislatures.

So they take their fight to where they feel they have power, and is to threaten corporations into these actions. The shootings to them are simply a mean to the end, since it happened at Wal-Mart they put the pressure there and Wal-Mart feels compelled to react.

They are getting retailers to implement property rights to fight gun rights....

We all know, or, should know that this has nothing to do with ammo sales, it's been an anti gun agenda item waiting to be pushed,

Can't get rid of guns but they can make it difficult to carry a gun.

And they don't care that it won't stop mass shootings IMHO, in fact the more shootings that happen the harder they can push their agenda...

JMO but they are using social media and pushing harder on known taboos in the political world to see how far they can push, and to see if they can break down the barriers that politicians perceive as death knells to their remaining in power.

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Originally posted by Dakor:
As of last year 43% of all U.S. citizens were gun owners

But don't forget that a decent portion of that 43% are just like Mr. McMillan himself... So-called "Fudds".

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McMillon said he is a gun owner, who grew up in a family that raised bird dogs, and he noted the company’s founder, Sam Walton, was an avid outdoorsman, who hunted quail.

Like most Fudds, when it comes to guns they proudly tout the fact that they themselves own guns and occasionally hunt, while at the same time they're decrying and calling for the banning of "assault rifles", "high capacity magazines", "ammo stockpiles", "fully semiautomatic ghost guns", and whatever else they personally think is too scary.

So they may be part of that 43% on paper, but they'd be perfectly content if everyone were limited to deer rifles, over/under shotguns, and small quantities of ammo, with strict locked storage requirements. (See the gun laws in certain other countries, which don't necessarily ban all guns, but which tightly license and restrict possession of guns to basically just a handful of hunting implements and a small number of rounds that have to be locked up at all times.)

As a result, Fudds like that won't even bat an eye at this decision, since Wal-Mart will still sell them bolt action hunting rifles and hunting ammo.

So no, it's not like they're in danger of pissing off all 43% of their customers.


Gun owner =/= gun rights supporter.


These Fudds' attitude is the same as many of the leftist politicians: "I don't want to ban all guns... but there need to be more common sense gun laws put in place", or "but there's no need for an AR15 for hunting", or "but nobody needs that many guns/that much ammo", etc.

Hell, even Obama tried that same tack. Remember the infamous photo that was basically intended to say: "Look! I shoot guns too, so don't you worry now!"

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Originally posted by parabellum:
OK, guys. Let's remember that our real enemy is outside of this forum.

%100 agree.

All of these companies jumping on the “no open carry” bandwagon seems to me to be “virtue signaling” to the Lefties that they appear to be “doing something when in reality they are doing nothing”.

Are WalMart, Kroger, Walgreen’s, et al going to hire the “TSA-reject rent-a-cop wannabes” to perform body cavity searches on customers entering their stores? I doubt that.

“Virtue Signaling” is cheaper than paying the “shakedown artists” to stay away from their storefronts. But am I happy with this development, HELL NO. This just furthers my belief that we have arrived at the “Event Horizon” on civil stability.

I'm sure it's just a matter of time before the Left-tards want to ban powder, primers, cases, and projectiles. Unfortunately for me, my whole "cache" washed away in that boating incident in the Gulf during some hurricane. Along with both my presses, tools, and workbench. Forget which one...

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Originally posted by 2BobTanner:
All of these companies jumping on the “no open carry” bandwagon seems to me to be “virtue signaling” to the Lefties that they appear to be “doing something when in reality they are doing nothing”.

Are WalMart, Kroger, Walgreen’s, et al going to hire the “TSA-reject rent-a-cop wannabes” to perform body cavity searches on customers entering their stores? I doubt that.

“Virtue Signaling” is cheaper than paying the “shakedown artists” to stay away from their storefronts. But am I happy with this development, HELL NO. This just furthers my belief that we have arrived at the “Event Horizon” on civil stability.

We should also remember and support those that don’t bow down whenever we can.

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Originally posted by a1abdj:

Although I agree with both of you in concept, Walmart, Kroger, and similar are private property. They are not infringing upon your rights because you have no right to be there in the first place.

You are there at their invitation so long as you abide by their rules.

Comment was directed towards poster.

It's the old, you don't need a semi-auto.... but if they want take my revolver, I'm gonna be pissed.

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Originally posted by chellim1:

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The CEO is Doug McMillon and he doesn’t listen to a damn thing from anyone that isn’t him. He’s tone deaf, arrogant and riding the same bus as all the other leftist elites.

How do these type of people keep getting promoted up the corporate ladder?
Sam Walton certainly wasn't like that.

Walmart took a bad turn once the family was no longer involved in operations. I won’t be surprised if Walmart is dead in the water within 20-25 years.

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Originally posted by 1s1k:

We should also remember and support those that don’t bow down whenever we can.

When I first heard the Walmart news, my thoughts turned immediately to Rural King, just down the road, a few hundred yards farther than Walmart.