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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Okay, now that everyone knows they are being filmed at Walmart when they go and buy a gun it just means Juan, who sells them out of his trunk with no questions asked, will look even better to deal with.
Did anyone ever sit these idiot mayors down and explain to them how well prohibition worked out???
Dylan's line about honest men living outside the law. Interesting times.
Good point. If you want more standard types of ammunition (9mm Luger, .45ACP, .22LR, .38 special), their prices are pretty good. Same for shotgun loads. But for specialized and exotic ammo, they won’t know what you’re talking about.
I know a guy who regularly buys ammo at Walmart each payday.
I wonder if this new policy is gonna affect the ammos sales too.
I only buy 22 cal. Got 2 Dillon SquareDeals and a Lee Turrent that takes care of .38 & .357, .40, and .45. I also have a MEC 9000 for the shotgun
I heard this on the way to work this morning, on ABC radio news.
I’m actually kind of upset about this, but not for the reasons you think.
At least one of the local Walmart’s here does NOT sell guns, and thought they have ammo, they are pissy about selling ammunition to just about anyone. I don’t buy it there now.
But, certainly this is another attempt to stop people from buying guns.
Walmart has the highest number of sales of guns in the US according to ABC news. They want to get out of that business, I’m certain - so, let’s help them.
Stop buying ANYTHING from them. Start buying from local stores, owned by local people.
“The Wal-Marts around here have a pretty good selection of both rifles and shotguns.”
Hmmm, guess it must vary from locale to locale. The two Walmarts near where I live don’t even carry a very good mix of ammunition - except for the period leading up to dove season, then they have shells stacked out in the aisles for that. Anyway, I mostly buy my guns and ammo needs at the local gun shows. More fun as there are alwasys some interesting characters to talk to at these shows. Not to say that there aren’t interesting characters in the Walmart stores. There’s plenty but not really sure I want to talk to them...
This may be an effort to appease the gun grabbers and reduce corporate liability but it will do nothing to actually prevent crime.
All the video will show is that the Walmart employee complied with the law when they sold the firearm.
Sure but retaining & archiving the video is a deliberate step that goes beyond the general security surveillance camera systems. Walmart has been searching for a way to sooth the soccer moms' sensibilities since Rosie O'Donuts dropped her spokesman role over the gun flap. As others have pointed out this is not an effective step toward limiting gun crime.
What are they tracking anyway? You can sell a rifle to anyone can’t you? A private sale of a rifle is still perfectly legal isn’t it?
Can’t you sell the rifle you just bought at Wal-Mart to a crack head in the parking lot if you choose to in most states?
I know a few states have intruded on private long gun sales, but most states have not.
My last 3 handgun purchases were at a gun show, mostly because the local gun dealers are too expensive and Wal-Mart doesn’t sell handguns. My last shotgun was purchased at Wal-Mart. It was way cheaper than anywhere else. Other than shotgun shells, I load all my other ammunition.
I thought the instant check was supposed to do that? The law already requires retailers to keep a record of sales, has for decades.
What good is a video, other than for later prosecution, in keeping guns out of the "wrong hands". That also begs the question about which are the wrong hands. Yours or mine? Certainly not those of the elitist gun grabbers and their minions.
Interesting that this story is datelined "NEW YORK", when AFAIK, WalMart is headquartered in Arkansas.
The Responsible Firearms Retailer Partnership is designed to strengthen the points in the gun purchasing system that criminals have exploited in the past, Wal-Mart and the Mayors Against Illegal Guns said.
Ah the light comes on. This is part of Blooomie's "protection" scheme to get gun makers and gun sellers to do his bidding. Thus the "NEW YORK CITY" dateline.
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.
And how does this prevent that?
Close but no cigar.
I sure wish people would understand that the Second Amendment was written to protect the RIGHT of the PEOPLE to ARM THEMSELVES against THE GOVERNMENT.
They wouldn't even need to get a pesky old change in the law, they could do it by a change in the regulations, which THEY write.
Might be the beginning of the end for Wally World.
Sears used to sell guns and ammo, they had their own house brand in fact. Ditto Wards, Ditto K-Mart (although they did not have a House brand). Now Sears is on the ropes, merged with K-Mart to try to save themselves (it's not working too well). Wards is defunct. Will Wally World go the same way? They will if they don't pull their head out and serve their customers instead of Bloomberg and his legions of lawyers.
Tell that Sears and Wards, whose fortunes went right down the tubes after they stopped selling guns and ammo.
It's not just the direct sales of the guns and ammo, it's also the other stuff the "gun nuts" would buy if they weren't PO'd at Uncle Wally,
Not any more. Unless they still have that catalog at the counter, which they might.
Criminals rarely use long guns, except for shotguns, which are often "converted" (with a hacksaw) to a short barreled short stocked configuration for use in criminal enterprises, in spite of the law which requires a special tax be paid, registration submitted and permission asked. The law only keep you and I from having a handy little defense tool for use in the home or vehicle, not the criminals.
They don't stock them, although they once did. After they stopped stocking them, they could still be ordered for pickup through a catalog that was available at the sporting goods counter. Don't know if they still have that, or if they do, if it still contains handguns.
Actually it was written to document a right the founders believed we already had.
Many of the founders believed that this right was so obvious that it didn't need to be written down. Hah.
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