NRA melts down over Walmart decision to reduce its ammo sales

[CatWoman]

The gun-rights group is angry that in a free market, sometimes people choose not to arm mass shooters.

Weeks after two deadly shootings in their stores, Walmart announced Tuesday that it would stop selling ammunition for assault-style rifles and handguns. The National Rifle Association (NRA), which claims to be the nation’s “oldest civil rights organization” and a fierce defender of the free market, responded by accusing the retail giant of attacking the Second Amendment.

Walmart faced considerable pressure from its own employees and customers to reduce or eliminate the sale of guns and ammunition in light of the latest deadly mass shootings. Stores in El Paso, Texas, and in Mississippi last month were the latest Walmart locations to be home to such attacks.

After making the announcement, the NRA quickly called the company’s decision a “shameful” cave to the “pressure of the anti-gun elites.”

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[NoMoreRepugs]

1. Damn proud to be an "elite." My question for

the goobers....if you boycott Walmart where are you going to shop????

[C_U_L8R]

2. Enough with the "shameful" bullshit.

You know what’s shameful NRA? Promoting killing and killing machines. Fuck off and...

[JDC]

3. "Elites". What an F'in Joke

[Skidmore]

4. What's elite

about wanting to save lives?

[Thomas Hurt]

5. fascist anti-intellectualism sloganeering

[Paladin]

12. Nicely put. (nt)

[gratuitous]

6. Walmart is simply obeying the dictates of the free market economy

Consumers are voting with their money (the only voice they have in the free market economy), and Walmart is adjusting to changing conditions. I don't know why the NRA is so concerned with Walmart making an informed free market choice. Perhaps the NRA is being just the weensiest bit disingenuous about the reason for their concern?

[hunter]

7. This is nothing new in our Walmarts.

They quit selling this shit when they realized a large number of their customers who were buying guns and ammunition were gangsters or people buying guns for gangsters.

About the same time they put pseudoephedrine behind the counter and started asking for ID.

Walmart was libertarian until they decided it might be bad for business if it became common knowledge they were supplying criminals with guns and drugs.

[tanyev]

8. NRA dope-slapped by the invisible hand of the market.

[hack89]

9. Online sellers are rejoicing. Nt

[redstatebluegirl]

10. Poor little snowflakes.

[TomSlick]

11. Does the NRA know the Second Amendment does not require any retailer to sell anything?

Whatever limits the Second Amendments places on the government, it does not require any retailer to sell weapons or ammunition - much less a particular weapon or ammunition.