Wal-Mart Resuming Sales Of Rifles & Shotguns At Hundreds Of Stores
Wal-Mart will resume selling rifles, shotguns and ammunition at hundreds of stores as part of what The Wall Street Journal calls a “major retooling of [Wal-Mart’s] U.S. operations,” in which the retailer is returning to shelves many “heritage categories” it pulled a few years ago.
Wal-Mart, which is experiencing its worst-ever U.S. slump, had stopped selling rifles, shotguns and bullets at all but a third of its 3,600 U.S. stores, but the change will bring the products back to about half of the locations. Wal-Mart is the largest seller of firearms and ammunition in the country.
“We made a business decision to sell them in certain stores because we have realized the appeal was perhaps broader than we thought,” Wal-Mart spokesman David Tovar told The Wall Street Journal. “But we are committed to doing it as responsibly as possible, as always, in compliance with all applicable local, state and federal laws.”
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