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#Walmart Got Heart & Guts!!!
Walmart giant retail takes a giant step and stand on Guns, along with Dick’s stores and Kroger! One loyalty stance deserves another. Let’s support each of these retailers.
Walmart’s ban on some ammo is a big message with low risk and hopefully the NRA will take gun prohibition more seriously. We need more to take a stance to stop all this killing and mass murdering.
Walmart plan is to phase out sales of ammunition for handguns and short barrel rifles. This is certainly a good step in the right direction. This move will by Walmart will make a large and pronounced political statement.
Finally the consumers voices have been heard and Walmart gets it. a month after 22 people were killed in a mass shooting in a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas. Without the consumers there will be no Walmart and certainly no profit. Shoppers have the power to demand the large and small stores to be accountable for what they are selling to others that may or may not cause massive destruction in taking others’ lives. When you are heard, then you support and now the reverse.
Walmart is a major player in a $2 billion dollar U.S. ammunition market. Their 20% of the market nets them $400 million of ammunition a year per the LA Times. While their share profit will drop, but the lives that may be saved cannot be compared to a dollar. There…