Walmart To Stop Selling AR15s

[davsel]

Easy now.
It was meant as a joke.

[CO Hugh]

Dicks sporting goods made announcement to phase out, but sports authority and others remodel then stop selling all guns.

[Great-Kazoo]

Death by a Thousand Protest.

They can try banning anything they want. IF one wasn't prepared or stocked up between 89-94, Oh well. If one wasn't born or old enough during that time and became of age before Obama's rise to dictatorship AND still didn't stock up. Not my problem.

[Bailey Guns]

Pretty sure the world's largest retailer (that does 4.5 times the amount of business as their closest competitor) doesn't need any help with their business model.

Easy now.
It was meant as a joke.

Sorry...all the outrage muddles my perceptions.

[Gman]

I'm so tired of the media stating 'Walmart pulls assault rifles".

They're just not "assault rifles".

...but it'll be repeated often enough that you won't be able to convince anyone that they're not no matter how much logic and reason you provide them.

[Ah Pook]

I didn't even know Wally World sold AR-15s. Either way, I still won't shop there.

[brutal]

Hadn't seen any in the Parker store that I ever recall since one of our own got the department going there then left, but not really looking and don't go in often.

Folks today said Castle Rock was blowing out Sig M400 for like $250-400. If true, some folks got some deals.

[KAPA]

Hadn't seen any in the Parker store that I ever recall since one of our own got the department going there then left, but not really looking and don't go in often.

Folks today said Castle Rock was blowing out Sig M400 for like $250-400. If true, some folks got some deals.

The Parker Walmart has had a Sig M400 sitting in the case for the better part of the last two years. Sometimes it has the OD Magpul furniture, other times it is black. It's been there since a few months after they installed the gun showcase a few years ago. Great rifle and at $997, a pretty good price IMO.

[Bailey Guns]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Walmart will stop selling the AR-15 rifle and other semi-automatic weapons at its stores because fewer people are buying them, a spokesman said Wednesday.

The AR-15 rifles and other modern sporting rifles were being sold at less than a third of the company's 4,600 U.S. stores. Company spokesman Kory Lundberg said Walmart Stores Inc. will remove the remaining inventory as stores transition from summer to fall merchandise, which should take a week or two to complete.

AR-15 sales are down at Walmart. Just like they are everywhere else. Members here remark about cheap AR prices all the time. Well that ain't because they're in really high demand right now. It's because everybody and their dog has a glut of inventory they can't get rid of.

Yeah...pretty far-fetched to believe this is a business decision driven by market factors.

[Martinjmpr]

For a couple of years when I lived in Laramie the only "stocking" gun dealers (i.e. places where you could walk in, buy a gun and walk out) were the West Laramie Fly Store and Wal Mart. A few years later I think a shop opened up in the downtown area off of 2nd street but I don't know if that's even still there. There were plenty of FFLs would order or receive guns purchased through GB, etc, but those were the only two places that stocked guns.

Still, IIRC Wally World didn't even START selling "Tactical" guns until a few years ago when they became trendy (I'm pretty the first time I saw an AR in a WM store was some time around 2007.) So I don't think this is going to be much of a loss to the shooting community. My guess is that WM will continue to sell guns and ammo particularly in places like Wyoming where there might not be any actual "gun dealers" in a given town.