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General Category => National/Breaking News => Second Amendment => Topic started by: Sanguine on August 22, 2019, 05:06:48 pm

Title: I tried to buy a gun at Walmart twice, and roadblocks left me empty-handed both times
Post by: Sanguine on August 22, 2019, 05:06:48 pm
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     Walmart is facing calls to stop selling guns in the wake of deadly shootings at its stores.

    I went to a Walmart store in Virginia with the intention of buying a gun as part of an investigation into the placement, selection, marketing, security, and sales of firearms in Walmart's stores.

    My journey to bring a gun home from Walmart was more complicated than I expected, and I was left with the impression that the company takes gun security and sales seriously.

The availability of guns at Walmart has become a hotly debated issue in the wake of two deadly shootings at its stores that killed 24 people.

More than 128,000 people have signed a petition urging Walmart to stop selling guns and take a stronger stance against firearms since the shootings at stores in El Paso, Texas, and Southaven, Mississippi. But the company has said it has no plans to stop selling them. ...

https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-gun-buying-review-virginia-store-2019-8 (https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-gun-buying-review-virginia-store-2019-8)

What an unusually balanced and objectively-written article!
Title: Re: I tried to buy a gun at Walmart twice, and roadblocks left me empty-handed both times
Post by: txradioguy on August 22, 2019, 05:48:53 pm
Quote from: Sanguine on August 22, 2019, 05:06:48 pm
What an unusually balanced and objectively-written article!

I'm impressed with her honesty in that story. Liberal anti-gun advocates will hate that story.  It blows up their entire narrative.
Title: Re: I tried to buy a gun at Walmart twice, and roadblocks left me empty-handed both times
Post by: PeteS in CA on August 22, 2019, 06:06:04 pm
 :silly:  22222frying pan Several weeks ago I had a go-rounder with a FB Friend who posted an absurd meme to the effect that girls' school clothing is more heavily regulated in the US than guns. 22222frying pan  :silly:

I wish I had had this article available at the time. Not that it would have changed the Prog's view, but making Proggies squirm by proving their absurdities are absurd is fun.
Title: Re: I tried to buy a gun at Walmart twice, and roadblocks left me empty-handed both times
Post by: Cyber Liberty on August 22, 2019, 06:54:38 pm
I thought the business of trying to find a store that sells guns a bit tedious (why didn't she just get in her car and start driving?).  Now that she got schooled on the requirements, it seems to me she could walk into that Walmart and buy that gun if she wanted to.

I agree, it's a good story, especially good if the reporter was surprised.
Title: Re: I tried to buy a gun at Walmart twice, and roadblocks left me empty-handed both times
Post by: Wingnut on August 22, 2019, 07:47:15 pm
With her obvious lack of knowledge concerning guns in general, I seriously doubt she has ever held a rifle in her life much less fired one. 
Title: Re: I tried to buy a gun at Walmart twice, and roadblocks left me empty-handed both times
Post by: Smokin Joe on August 23, 2019, 12:31:55 am
Quote from: The Ghost on August 22, 2019, 07:47:15 pm
With her obvious lack of knowledge concerning guns in general, I seriously doubt she has ever held a rifle in her life much less fired one.
Maybe not, but with her experience with a handgun, she might be more likely to do so now, and with less prejudice against it.
That was a remarkably fair article, considering it came from a confessed liberal. I'd even go so far as to say good journalism.