Rifles should not be sold at Walmart

I agree totally that the government shouldn't dictate prices, but am not sure about the constitution part. I AM sure that anybody who has an interest in any type of firearm would have no problems finding one around here by buying, selling, trading and bartering amongst ourselves. Only the people who have no interest in them would find them hard to find and those same people probably have no idea how many people in their neighborhood have firearms.

 

walmart stopped selling "scary looking guns" (ar-15) as well as having tougher standards for background checks than what most states even ask for when required... so walmart is literally tougher to buy a gun from than a gun store... so isn't walmart exactly what anti-gun people want, a store with tough background checks and only shotguns and hunting rifles? in fact weren't people up in arms (pun intended) years ago when walmart started logging all gun sales and literally track guns...

and here you are, still upset and angry at walmart... despite them doing everything you want... why do you degrade a company doing EVERYTHING you want?!?!

 

Angry white liberals are miserable people.

 

especially when a store does EVERYTHING they want... whats even more amazing is that he is shopping in this store, and then degrades the type of people who shop in the store... I mean holy crap this guy is a nutjob... he's the type that should be kept from getting a gun!

 

Wow! You must not be in a rural area!

I try to keep my money local by supporting local businesses as much as I can. Buying local also means the guy who I bought it from is more invested in keeping me happy, and he's almost always more knowledgeable than the clerk at any big box store. If I have a problem with something, he's more likely to know what's wrong and fix it quickly, especially since he sold it to me and wants me to come back. Wal Mart can't do that.

But there's no argument from me about saving $400.

 

Walmart also sales baseball bats and butcher knives. If someone wants me dead, they are going to try regardless of the weapon. Please do not bash my head in with a bat, give me the bullet.

 

I'm about as rural as one can get here, but I do live between the two largest metro areas in my state.

I, too, prefer to spend my money locally, and there's no doubt that I wouldn't get much help in servicing my M4 from the guy in the sporting goods counter at WalMart, where I bought it. But I've never had a problem with a gun I could not remedy myself, so that aspect does not have much value for me.

$400 is $400, all said and done. I have no moral objection to WalMart, as a business, and I don't generally need technical support for a rifle.

 

And they stopped selling handguns years ago. Just shows that "reasonable" or "common sense" restrictions isn't what anti-gun folks are after.

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I agree. The thing with Walmart, is that almost everybody I know shops there occasionally (and I know people who live in million dollar waterfront homes, who shop there). That said, I think I've seen more borderline child abuse (mainly verbal) at Walmart than any other store.

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About the only gun I'd buy from wal-mart is a basic gun like a Ruger 10/22 or Remington 870. I don't think I'd buy anything that needs a scope or any kind of after-sales work.

 

You surprised me.

I sometimes look at their selections when I go in, but I'm usually after something specific and don't "shop" but I have, as an example, picked up a cheap BB gun and pellet gun for plinking.

I don't think I've even bought as much as a hunting/fishing license from Wally World. But I have, as an example, taken a defective scope back to our local guy and he not only replaced it, he sighted it in just to make sure it was okay and to kinda make up for my aggravation of coming back. Sitting around and swapping tales with him and other customers is relaxing, too. There's no personal connection like that at any big box store.

I would have saved a lot of your time if I'd simply said "Service after the sale is important to me" but, like you, I'd not turn my nose up at saving $400 for something I wanted.

 

Yet another example where feelings are obviously not superior to rational thought.

It couldn't be as simple as any of those people in walmart googling "gun store" and driving next door to buy a gun.

The truth is, guns make you nervous, and you just don't want to see them because they give you PTSD and bruise your shoulder.

 

i prefer women flash me at Walmart than buy rifles at Walmart.

Just claim you didn't buy a rifle and want your "free pass".

 

If the money was right I'd seriously consider and probably get it, especially if I could save $400 over the price of the same rifle somewhere else.

 

Let me explain something that your racist thinking probably doesn't understand.

When you're called a snowflake, it has nothing to do with the color, believe it or not. What it means is that every snowflake is "unique", and that's how millennials like to think of themselves.

 

This is crazy....


what if a guy suddenly decides to "take up deer hunting" and runs out to his local Wal-mart to buy a rifle.....after coming home and catching his wife in bed with another man?

 

Guns don't make me nervous. Again, the pro-gun nuts who keep jumping to conclusions dumbfounds me.

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....Well, that's good I guess. But yeah, 1. I'm not racist and, 2. Let's stop trying to play the race card in this.

 

And what's the difference between Wal-Mart and any other federally licensed gun dealer? Wal-Mart does the same background checks. It even videotapes every transaction. It does a lot of other things that Michael Bloomerg's anti-gun group recommends.

Anyway, if he caught his wife in bed with another man today, goes out and buys a rifle, he will probably get the death penalty if he kills his wife or her lover, due to the premeditation involved in buying the gun.

The other side to that is, what if a woman who's been threatened by her biker ex-boyfriend needs a 12-gauge (Joe Biden's favorite) for self defense. It's good that Wal-Mart can sell it to her.

 

Sure. Let's make voting cost $3000 too.

Plus...$25 for a rifle? Yeah that's a BB gun.

 

What if? We in Florida have a 3 business day waiting period. He could go buy a bat. There's no waiting periods for buying bats.

 

You were the first to bring race into this--as explained by others, snowflake isn't a racist term, it's an agist one. It refers to fragile, unique millenials.

Again, I have yet to hear a rational reason why Wal-Mart shouldn't sell guns, other than your joke term "Walmartians."

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No waiting period for rifles or shotguns in Florida. Three business day 24 hour periods for handguns. Wal-Mart doesn't sell handguns.

 

What if frogs had wings? Would they bump their *** when they jump?

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Obviously they do, because intellectually you realize that guns are sold in other stores....stores that you wouldn't want to go in.

Therefore it's not gun sales that disturbs you, it's experiencing being around guns that you have a problem with.

 

The lover and the wife are running away from the husband and are 50 feet down the driveway.....

what are the chances a bat would hit them?

what are the chances a 30-06 round would hit them?

 

And how many times has someone run to Walmart, bought a rifle, and shot a bunch of people? None.

Just proves gun banners are running on wild irrational fear and just want guns banned, and they hate people.

 

Not as high as you think, if the gun hasn't been sighted in. Most guns aren't sold sighted in. The other thing is, if he caught his wife and her lover, they'd be stupid to stick around the hour it would take to go to Wal-Mart, buy a gun and go back. Wal-Mart is a slow place to buy a gun compared to a dedicated gun store. It usually takes 10 or 15 minutes to get a clerk who's allowed to sell guns at the outdoor section.

 

Yet you instantly associated the color of a snowflake with your color. Yeah, that's racism.

One day when you grow up and move out on your own you'll understand that most people don't care about your skin color, they only care about what kind of person you are and how you act.

 

Can we get some throwing stars in this story? What happens in chapter 2?