Posted on 04/15/2008 5:24:32 AM PDT by captjanaway
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's largest retailer, unveiled plans on Monday to film its gun sales in the United States and create a computerized log of purchases in a bid to stop guns falling into the wrong hands.
Wal-Mart, which is the largest seller of firearms in the United States, agreed a 10-point code, which also includes rigid inventory controls, with a bipartisan coalition of Mayors Against Illegal Guns led by New York's Michael Bloomberg.
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Exactly!! The only ones buying their guns from Walmart would be the folks you read about having SHOT an intruder to their home!
Buy your ammunition at WalMart, but please patronize your local gun shop. In additional to a far greater variety of firearms, you are likely to get a wealth of advice and information you’d never get from a WalMart clerk. Besides which, I always find it enjoyable to speak with other customers, who are quite likely to share similar political views and more than willing to offer their own advice on gun-related matters.
Doesn’t Wal-mart video tape sales already? I know in Lubbock, TX, they found a woman’t body in a suitcase at the landfill.
They caught her murderer by looking at tapes from Wal-mart, finding the guy buying a suitcase, then looking at the credit card transaction from the register at the time the video was taken.
I think his trial is going on or just ended in Lubbock.
You are already on camera from the moment you walk into a Walmart (and many other stores) and it’s a safe bet that includes when you buy a gun or ammo. Probably includes when you buy underwear for that matter.
They don’t sell handguns here in the Norfolk area. I don’t see how it would affect anything. When someone buys a weapon at Wal-Mart, the required paperwork is filled out, and a store manager has to carry the weapon outside to the parking lot. Since they only sell long guns, the security cameras will see the buyer and the weapon go out the door together anyway. Here where I live, Wal-Mart has the best prices on new weapons, and they sell lots of ammo and gun/hunting related items. I doubt they want their sales to be reduced.
If it’s a shotgun, I don’t see how anyone could trace it, a rifle will have a spent cartridge on record. I believe the govt gets a record of each sale anyway.
The Wal-Marts around here have a pretty good selection of both rifles and shotguns.
The Pharmacy (DEA-Cam).......assuming it's not already there....
Since they are already filming with the security cameras, why the touchy-feely press release about filming gun purchases? As much as I enjoy shopping at WalMart (I admit it..... I’ll get into therapy ASAP), stuff like this is wearing thin.
Besides, they just broadcast that they are filming gun sales, like the local criminal is going to rush over there to buy a gun now.........
I’m sure the pharmacy is at least recorded by security cameras.
Have you bought Sudafed lately, by the way? It’s allergy season and I hate to go in buy it. Have to show my driver’s license and “register” my purchase (you are only allowed so many boxes in a given period) because dope dealers are making meth out of the stuff.
i’ve got no reason to buy at walmart.
90% of what i shoot is stuff they never heard of. “.38 super? you mean .38 special, right?” “cast lead? they make that?” “.32 WHAT?”
heck, half the time even going to the local gun shops if i ask for .32 h&r and .32 winchester special they look at me funny.
I assume that they will actually be filming gun sales more closely and, I guess, keeping the record longer. But make no mistake, you’re already on camera. In fact, if you live in a moderately large city, you might be on camera hundreds of times a day.
We are all on camera all the time......The Orwellian century has arrived.....The innocent are filmed and the guilty continue to thrive.....
Good. Maybe customers will go to their local gunshop instead of RedChinamart
The already stopped selling guns in their Illinois stores. They said it was because of dropping sales. But everybody knows the real reason is the hassles with Illinois regulators.
Just not worth the headaches.
No, it wasn't. It was written to spell out the God-given right to bear arms to protect ourselves, from any threat. It was written to show that government was to be limited and was not allowed to infringe upon that right. The Constitution doesn't grant rights. Neither does the government.
Just when you think things have hit rock-bottom on stupidity......
It sounds like WalMart is doing what Bloomingijit and Mumbles Menino want: putting itself out of the retail gun business.
“According to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, 46 percent of its criminal gun trafficking investigations involved cases in which someone who is not legally allowed to purchase a firearm does so through the use of a proxy, known as a straw buyer.”
This is an interesting statement and needs to be examined.
First of all, how many criminal gun trafficking investigations are conducted?
Second, what do the other 54% of such cases involve, if not straw buyers? And this is a very important question. What kinds of criminal gun trafficking is going on in the United States?
Would that be gun smuggling? Sale of stolen guns? Sale of illegally modified guns? Sale of guns without the proper paperwork or background check?
It's just feel-good actions to get the anti-gunners off Wal-Mart's back. Brilliant IMHO.
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