however, this is why I don’t shop at Walmart, in addition to all the other reasons listed. I’m lapenn on there, btw. I’d much rather pay a little more and get specialized, dedicated service that I have found at local stores (camera shop, sewing store, little bookstores, etc). In general, Walmart hires for a cheap work force. Good stores hire (and keep on) good employees who care about what they do.

I’m part of the left who doesn’t shop at Walmart, but I’d hardly say their decision to stock ammo is part of it. In fact, I do own my own .22 rifle, tho I don’t use it often.

I don’t shop at Walmart b/c of their environmental impact, their social impact, and the fact that I really can’t stand (1) shopping and (2) being places without windows. Walmart is well-designed to get people in and keep them shopping, and I can’t stand that environment. -Leah

Hey, you are a woman that owns a firearm and can’t stand shopping? Wow, can you drive a stick shift, shoot straight and tell the truth too?

How about live within your means? It’s too bad you live on the other coast. If you get over this ways or I get over that-a-ways we’ll have to go plinking sometime.

I said twice in the emergency contraceptive post that I was male, perhaps you were seeing red and missed that part?

According to the linked article, Wal*Mart stopped selling guns during Katrina. I assume they also stopped selling ammo too, but I can’t confirm that. The linked article didn’t say that.

http://www.boston.com/news/weather/articles/2005/09/11/halted_gun_sales_infuriate_customers/

I think the halted gun sales directly effected people who suddenly realized something I’ve been saying all along, the police can’t protect you. This is nothing new, there was rioting and lawlessness after Hurricane Andrew also, as well as plenty of other times in the past. I’m pretty sure the looters didn’t rush to the store to do the ?instant background check? and buy a gun, to start raping and looting with, so this shutdown by Wal*Mart directly affected only the newly converted people who would not have an arms stockpile yet. Here is a particularly telling quote from the above link.

One mother came in to buy her first gun after she and her two children, ages 9 and 12, witnessed a slaying on the streets of New Orleans, said Scott Roe, Spillway’s owner.
”Her comment was, ‘I was a card-carrying, antigun liberal — not anymore,’ ” Roe said. ”She said, ‘I’m going back home, and I am not going back unarmed.’ “

Hell yea!

Let me repeat, Wal*mart has every right to stop selling guns and ammo at any time, for any reason. I have every right to disagree with that decision though.

Here is a particularly weasely quote from a wesasly Wal*Mart spokesperson.

A Wal-Mart spokeswoman, Karen Burk, attributed the company’s decision to pull guns from the shelves to ”some very fluid circumstances and changing situations” in the region. She did not elaborate far beyond that. ”We’re trying to take care of our customers and community and be a responsible retailer at the same time,” Burk said.

Translation- ?We were afraid of some horrible PR, maybe some loonie that’s off his prozac and out on parole goes and shoots up the Astrodome . When he is captured, he has a Wal*Mart receipt in his pocket?.

I don’t shop at Walmart b/c of their environmental impact, their social impact, … being places without windows. Walmart is well-designed to get people in and keep them shopping, and I can’t stand that environment. -Leah

You are going to have to expand on ?environmental impact? and ?social impact?, because I’m unaware of the issues. The layout of the stores are near enough to the stores I like to call J-mart and red dot/bullseye,[1] so I guess you are not shopping there either. There’s surely a demand for those types of stores, but you are free to disagree with them and try to convince others.

SM, my comparison was to point out that I think it’s strange that you don’t seem to mind when the pharmacies don’t want to sell BC. I suppose you don’t buy BC [I think you're a guy, right?], so it wouldn’t matter much to you. Obviously, you spend your dollars at a place that you agree with. I definitely wouldn’t spend my dollars at any of those pharmacies if I knew their policies, because I don’t agree with holding back BC.

I am unaware of any chain that refuses to sell birth control. If you can confirm that any chain refuse to sell it, let me know, I’ll put it on the front page. I’d also wonder why there isn’t a national boycott already in place.

I am also unaware of any chain that refuses to sell, as an official corporate policy, emergency contraceptive. I already took a stand and said I would boycott such a chain. I also already stated that you can substitute birth control pills for emergency contraceptive, and I published a list. I suggested that women could get birth control pills and stockpile them for an emergency. Wouldn’t you be a hero if one of your girlfriends needed it because of some bad thing and you stepped in and saved the day for them?

Also, one last thought: I don’t think it was horrible that they shut off ammo purchases during a national emergency. Shouldn’t any person who intends to use ammo for protection have a sufficient stockpile? I’m sure I’ve got .22s knocking around here somewhere, and I don’t even use my gun more than twice a year (target shooting with my brother — I don’t trust anyone else I know enough to let them hold a gun around me). If you intend to guard your house utilizing guns and ammo, it’s your responsibility to keep that stockpile yourself. If someone bangs down your door, you don’t want to have to go to Walmart before you can get them out of your house, do you? -Leah

Absolutely. but like I said, these were recent converts to the fold. I’m sure they will never ever rely on the whim of a store to be sure they have their critical needs met.

If you read the rest of my blog, you will realized that I’m a ?libertarian leaning? person, who does not identify with either the left or the right. I anti-corporate-personhood, but pro-capitalism. The government should have some power to control run-a-muck corporations, but exactly how much power they should have, I haven’t exactly nailed down yet. Certainly forcing a company to sell a product or to sell at a certain price is over that line. I do know capitalism has brought us many gifts like affordable antibiotics and 550 pieces of bulk packed Federal .22 ammo for less than two sawbucks, and I’m loathe to throttle it needlessly.

[1] J-mart is actually a small store in Bowie, MD that’s known for it’s subs, soft serve, and mini-golf. It just recently shut down for some reason. Bullseye and Red Dot are popular ammo reloading powders.

I don’t shop at Walmart b/c of their environmental impact, their social impact, and the fact that I really can’t stand (1) shopping and (2) being places without windows. Walmart is well-designed to get people in and keep them shopping, and I can’t stand that environment.

SM, my comparison was to point out that I think it’s strange that you don’t seem to mind when the pharmacies don’t want to sell BC. I suppose you don’t buy BC [I think you're a guy, right?], so it wouldn’t matter much to you. Obviously, you spend your dollars at a place that you agree with. I definitely wouldn’t spend my dollars at any of those pharmacies if I knew their policies, because I don’t agree with holding back BC.

Also, one last thought: I don’t think it was horrible that they shut off ammo purchases during a national emergency. Shouldn’t any person who intends to use ammo for protection have a sufficient stockpile? I’m sure I’ve got .22s knocking around here somewhere, and I don’t even use my gun more than twice a year (target shooting with my brother — I don’t trust anyone else I know enough to let them hold a gun around me). If you intend to guard your house utilizing guns and ammo, it’s your responsibility to keep that stockpile yourself. If someone bangs down your door, you don’t want to have to go to Walmart before you can get them out of your house, do you?

I like Wal-Mart. They hardly invented their market niche, yet they have succeeded, where K-mart had already had decades of a head start. They sell ammo. They support the shooting sports. I drive past my local Kmart (2 miles) to go to my local Wal-Mart (10 miles). I don’t even think about spending anything at Target, because of their prior support of the (no where near a) Million Misguided Mothers.

I have a 20mm ammo can downstairs full of Wal-Mart/Federal bulk packed .22 ammo. Before I gather together with my extended family around Christmas time, I’m more than likely going to pick up some clays and a few boxes of shot shells.

On November 19, I’m gonna hit my local Wal-Mart and try to pick up a copy of Red Dawn, but I’ll buy my ammo at the local gun shop this year. Those people who run Wal-Mart aren’t dummies. They know about Ammo Day. They have seen the run on ammo in prior years. If I can talk enough people into not buying ammo there for just this one day, (realistically, I’m calling for just a one day boycott on only one category of product) perhaps they will think twice about shutting down sales during a disaster.

Just to drive the point home, though. I think I’ll sent a letter to Wal-mart, explaining my actions, and asking them not to cut off sales during a natural emergency in the future.

I hope that explains where I’m coming from, unless of course you think Wal-Mart did the right thing shutting down sales to all the people who suddenly realized that they critically needed a firearm to keep themselves safe. If you think there was a net gain of lawless looters denied a firearm balanced against the law abiding who were just trying to keep themselves safe, then I’m afraid I can’t help you.

We just want to put a big spike in their database software.

Might be interesting.

And anyway, I’m with Joe on this one. (Except I don’t buy guns there. They don’t stock what I like.)

Walmart is gun friendly. They sell guns and ammo in locations where it is unpopular. They donate to the GOP. Target doesn’t sell guns or ammo. Mark Dayton (Target) is a Senator from Minnesota. He has a (D) after his title.

You my friend, are confused. I buy ammo at Walmart. I buy guns there too. I will continue to do so as they support my rights.

The left hates Walmart for a reason. I’m not a moonbat and I don’t support moonbats. Do you?

Welcome to our special Veterans Day issue of the Carnival of Cordite. Back in the day, right before I put on that first uniform, I raised my right hand and swore the Oath of Enlistment. I swore to support and

Yup, entirely up to them. I do not support laws that would require a store to either sell guns or sell drugs. If Kwik-E-Mart decided to stop selling tofu-dogs that’s their decision. It’s my decision whether or not I still want to buy my stuff from there. I’m also free to try to encourage my friends not to shop there either. And hopefully I could let Kwik-E-Mart know that tofu-dogs were really really important to a large segment of their buying public and it would be in their best interest to start carrying them again. Otherwise we may all go over to Circle-J to buy our tofu-dogs

My buddy works at a gun store. One of the things he has said to customers (that looked like gang members) was “this isn’t the post office, we do not have to sell to you”. Each time he does something like that, he risks a public backlash. So far, though he’s been OK. If a bigbox sales-drone refused to sell to me, I’d likely be pretty pissed, but if I was drunk or something he might have a very good reason. If it’s just because he’s an anti-gun person, I’d likely call management and get it straightened out.

I have money. I want to buy ammo. I’m an OK possessor of ammo. BigBox wants to make money. That sales-drone is toast.

I’m a strung out meth freak. I want to buy a case of sudfed. Sales drone says no. Management backs up sales-drone. The police are called if I don’t leave quietly.

(thanks for dropping by)

Also, how would you feel if a store clerk decided s/he was antigun and would not dispense/ring up a gun or ammo purchase at a megastore like this? Would you say that is their right, or would you be upset because it’s your right to purchase it?