Walmart To Halt Selling Some Military-Grade Weapons

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34077774

Well, its a start I suppose.

[EdmundD]

Yes but it says "due to low sales" and "it will increase its stock of shotguns and other more popular rifles."

[Baldric]

Looks like a commercial decision to me

///Walmart has announced it will stop selling certain military-grade guns due to low sales.but said it will increase its stock of shotguns and other more popular rifles. ///

[mikey4444]

Ed...yes, not unqualified good news, I grant you, but its a start.

Nobody needs a semi-automatic assault rifle. These weapons were invented to kill people, not deer.

[EdmundD]

I suppose low sales is encouraging.

[sunny-dave]

I'd actually rather they were shooting other knuckle draggin', gun totin' rednecks than deer, mikey

[anotheoldgit]

I didn't realise my local ASDA sold them.

[Mamyalynne]

They're camouflaged behind the fromage frais.

[Ellipsis]

Get down to Walmart for military-grade semi-automatic weapons as used by Adam Lanza at the Sandy Hook Elemtary School and James Eagan Holmes at the Aurora movie theater. Clearance sale while stocks last!

[agchristie]

// Walmart shareholders have pushed the company to re-think its selling of guns with high-capacity magazines.//

Surely not been selling them with 'People's Friend'?

[wolf63]

The staff can control the situation

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/02/16/28/021628e047a7dc62401e201308ce6546.jpg

[andy-hughes]

I don't really think selling guns with smaller magazines is addressing the issue is it?

If you jump from a third storey window instead of a twelfth story window, the result is pretty much the same.

One a ratio of one bullet to one death, I don't think that twelve deaths instead of a hundred deaths is a selling point I would consider valuable.

Don't Wal-Mart guns re-load?

[Baldric]

Read his own link, you mean break the habit of a lifetime?
;o)

[agchristie]

Mikey did use the word 'some' in his heading :)

[-Talbot-]

Yes AG...but

A company spokesman said the decision to stop selling the guns "wasn't political."

[dave50]

Does that mean I can still pop down to Asda for a hunting rifle?

[Ellipsis]

> A company spokesman said the decision to stop selling the guns "wasn't political."

That's right, you can believe everything their spokesman says. The decision to stop selling them isn't political, just like the decision to sell them in the first place wasn't political ...

Actually maybe it wasn't political. Maybe it was pure greed.

[andy-hughes]

A spokesman said the decision was 'not political'.

What's the point of saying that?

I don't imagine for one moment anyone dreamed it was 'political' since the word from Capitol Hill on prospective gun control is that same as it has been since the days of the founding of the Constitution - silent.

[ToraToraTora]

hang on I shop at ASDA, can I buy an Uzi in the DIY dept?