[I_Publius]

Can we show Walmart the power of the American dollar?

This is a ridiculous attempt to keep guns out of the hands of the average, law-abiding citizen.

I vote for a Freeping of Walmart and perhaps a boycott, which wouldn't be hard for me to do anyway.

[Rifleman]

Well, I have 12 gun stores within an hour's drive, including Wall's General Store, the best small gunshop I have ever seen. And plenty of general sporting goods stores. I guess I will buy my clothes at Jacque Pennie's or Goodies. I have about had it with Wally World.

As an aside, the local Walmart never does any advertising with local radio stations or newspapers. So in return, the only time Walmart gets mentioned is when there is a stabbing or a car broken into in the Walmart parking lot. For any other business, it would be just "in the parking lot of a local business". Heh, Heh.

[SuperLuminal]

WOW! This will sure reduce the number of liquor and grocery store holdups.

Now I'm going to feel a lot safer by shopping at KMart instead of Walmart.

[SlickWillard]

I have never really understood the statists' fascination with gun control. Beyond the obvious truism that people kill people, it is still more true that GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE: AMMO KILLS PEOPLE. Without ammo, a gun is nothing but a steel pipe with a little machine tooling on one end. Gun control will never be the threat to our liberties that ammo control would be. As long as you can walk into your friendly neighborhood Walmart and buy 100 round boxes of Federal Classic 12 gauge shot for $14.95 - without so much as flashing a driver's license - then you don't really have that much to worry about.

Flame away.

[white trash redneck]

Damn. And I thought they had been our friends. I wonder what prompted the change?

[rockfish59]

Gun shops & gun shows!
Screw these purveyors of 'Made In China' junk!

[xm177e2]

Wal-Mart is just covering its backside. If it sells a gun that is used in a crime, it looks bad. So it's employing stricter checks.

If anything, this is a good thing, when big stores get out of the gun business, small stores are able to survive. And small stores will be more reliable, even if the political atmosphere turns against guns.

If we get to relying on Wal-Mart and K-Mart for our access to firearms, our second amendment might as well be dead, because they could stop selling any day.

[Arleigh]

I'd promise to boycott WalMart, but can you boycott a store you never planned to patronize in the first place? I can proudly say that I have never set foot in a WalMart, much less spent even one cent there!

[The Raven]

Looks like an insurance issue

[epow]

Buying a gun at WM, or any other mass merchandiser, because of the couple of bucks you think you're saving often ends up costing more in frustration and dissatisfaction than it's worth. I was in a privately owned gun store a few years ago when a customer brought in a new S&W 44. mag he had just picked up earlier that day. Right out of the box the gun froze up. The trigger couldn't be pulled and the cylinder was bound up tight. The dealer took it back to his workroom and opened the sideplate, turned it over and dumped out a tangled clump of steel shavings. He then blew out the lockwork with compressed air and everything worked fine. Try taking a defective gun back to the minimum wage clerk at the WM gun counter for help or advice and see how far you get. At best that customer would have been told to ship the gun back to S&W, and he would have been without it for several weeks.

I once stood around a WM gun counter in NC for an hour or so just to see what kind of advice and information the clerks were giving potential buyers. Those guys, and the one lady, barely knew which end of a gun the bullet comes out. The clerk who claimed to be an experienced hunter was giving out more bad info on ammo and guns than the other two combined. Pitiful.