Posted on 02/28/2018 3:58:20 PM PST by Trump20162020
Walmart Inc said on Wednesday that it was raising the minimum age at which customers could buy firearms and ammunition to 21 years.
The U.S. retailer is also removing items from its website resembling assault-style rifles, including non-lethal airsoft guns and toys, it said in a statement.
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We are losing the culture war.
Exactly. Kids have no business buying or owning guns. Period. Not today. Not ever. I hope this becomes law.
Would you want the driving age moved up to 21? More kids are killed through driving than firearms.
Walmart's new policy is yet more of Walmart wanting to be among the first on the Liberal Bandwagon. Remember their "GREEN" policies? Dim stores lit by skylights. It will cost them and there are competitive stores who can meet and likely beat them plus Walmart looses sales from other items. The Idiots of Bentonville still have not yet learned it isn't a wise business practice to anger your primary customer base.
Rush et all keep saying full auto has been illegal since 1934.
It was regulated after the mobs went wild in the 20’s 30’s.
There were no instances of a crime committed since then till the 80’s when two aholes got a couple of AKs to knock off a Brinks armored car in LA.
Reagan had new legislation written in 86, And there has been nothing involving full auto as far as crime goes since.
Now one loon in Vegas uses a bumpstock, something he could have done without a bumpstock, and we need new laws.
Ridiculous.
Knives and Rocks!
Perhaps we could make murder illegal
Parents will STILL purchase firearms for their kids, in some areas of the country hunting is a way of life and has been for decades!!! Gang members that are minors WILL STILL get firearms on the street, the kid that shot up the school in Connecticut who had a mental illness the mother purchased HIS firearms KNOWING DAMNED GOOD AND WELL the kid was not right mentally!!! There is NOT a damned thing ANYONE can do about a situation like that!!! What the HELL kind of a parent purchases a kid firearms KNOWING the kid is mentally disturbed, WE nor the government can fix STUPID!!!
Send them back to Benton Harbor.
Buyem a car and an IPhone with a 5g plan
BUT - in all fairness, in Wisconsin, you can now order liquor from Walmart and pick it up in the parking lot with the rest of your groceries!
Y’all come! Hoo-Weee! ;)
Man, they are ridiculously SILENT on the Las Vegas massacre, aren’t they?
Okay, I know you understand the Constitution, since I took a quick look at some of your other posts, but I am a bit confused by the rest of your post.
WalMart can and should be able to put arbitrary restrictions on whatever they sell, if they don't want to allow anyone whose name contains more than 5 vowels to buy a bicycle, fine, they are a PRIVATE company.
However, firearms ownership is a constitutional right guaranteed to 18+ year-olds by virtue of the 26th Amendment, which guarantees their right to vote.
And Federal law sets 18 as the minimum age to by tobacco, and there is NO federal LAW setting a minimum drinking age at all, each state sets this independently, but those that do not set it to 21 are penalized via reductions on certain federal funds.
As long as I can get spotted Cow Wi will have a soft spot...
Liberal.
Show me stats that support in any way shape or form the notion that 18-20 year olds who legally purchased guns, as a percentage of the population, are responsible for a disproportionate share of gun crimes. If you do, I will consider changing my mind. Otherwise, this stunt is nothing more than an arrow in the gun-grab quiver - and fake conservatives are jumping in line to help fire the bow. Pat yourself on the back for feeling good about squeezing the noose around the necks of those who still hold liberty as a valuable notion.
I predicted to some friends yesterday that Walmart would act on this today. But I didn’t foresee this (probably illegal) intermediate step.
But as soon as someone sues them over this, they will decide to stop sales of firearms and ammunition corporation wide, which is of course completely within their rights.
THey shouldn’t be allowed to enter into contracts either.
Yeah every time they talk about shootings they only talk about Parkland..notice the whole gun control thing didnt get brought up after Las Vegas..you would think the left would have gone nuts after 58 deaths but I guess since most know that case is a huge cover up they don’t want to touch it(ISIS inspired, Paddock gun dealer, etc) doesnt fit the narrative
For a right to be violated, there must be Governmental action. A private business is free to sale or not sale anything or set any requirement for selling that they wish. You do not have to patronize the business. Walmart should face the wrath of the shopper for this stupid and insane decision, but it doesn’t implicate the Constitution in so far as the government isn’t forcing Walmart to do this.
Good they can K-Mart themselves right out of business and another take it's place. K-mart stopped firearm and ammo sales and never recovered. Walmart as of late is doing all it can to make shopping there a royal PITA including Scan and Go then closing full service registers.
If I wanted to go to a yuppie PC sporting Goods dept in a Big Box I'd go to Target but I'm not a Yuppie and I couldn't stand Target even before their PC stunts went full blown.
I think all these idiots should get together and walk through Chicago and disarm everyone once and for all
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