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So I was in one of the Wal-Marts that sells guns and I was thinking how great it is that under the same roof I can purchase rifles and shotguns on one isle and 10 feet over on the next isle I can purchase grocery items like Coke and Dorrittos and then on the other side they have pillows and bed sheets. Does anyone else ever go into a Wal-Mart and ponder these thoughts?
 
I'll see your walmart and raise you one liquor/ gun store...... real sign and store here in Texas. Both in same building, same owner, separated by one interior door. It is in Uvalde Texas.
 

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50 years ago, before walmart had even made a serious incursion into my home town, there was a big drug/sundries store of the type that once made america's landscape interesting. the one here in town had a serious shooting department. One of the high points was seeing a remington 40 XB Bench rest rifle, and finding out what the heck a beavertail forend was.

This guy even sold black and smokeless powder, some bullets, and pretty much any ammunition that you would want. The store is still there, but the walmart invasion has literally gutted their operation.
 
I'll see your walmart and raise you one liquor/ gun store...... real sign and store here in Texas. Both in same building, same owner, separated by one interior door. It is in Uvalde Texas.
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I went on a prairie dog shoot with a guy a few years back in South Dakota. He took me to a place that was a liquor/tobacco store on the ground floor, and in the basement was a well stocked gun shop. I laughed about it for an hour. Guns and alcohol do not mix, but I guess they do in South Dakota and Texas?
 
real sign and store here in Texas
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So that's what they were gettin' at on Family Guy:D Joke was that it was state law to get a free gun with every liquor purchase:eek:

And I would ponder those thoughts if my wally World sold something other than muzzleloaders in their gun case.

Best I can do is a grocery store with a stairwell in the back leading to a second floor gun shop. Usually where I get my guns, almost always where I go for defense ammo, and I work right across the street so got something to do on a lunch break;)
 
A few years back in our local town we had a Tin Smith and Gun Shop in the same store. I was in there one day having some wood stove vent pipe formed and crimped when a young kid walked in and tried to buy just three .45 rounds. Not three boxes, just three rounds. The owned ran him out of the store and then commented to me that he didn't want to get involved with a under age kid who probably wanted just enough rounds to rob the local liquor store! :)
 
The wal mart in CB sells guns, food, sheets, beds, tvs and booze. They have a book you can order a gun from at a less price than you would pay at a LGS too.

Course our permit allows a alchohol level too :) which I find kinda wierd.
 
We had a drug store in Carson City that sold guns, ammo, reloading supplies, liquor and all sorts of medications - all in one trip. There was NEVER an incident with someone buying a gun and booze and shooting someone - never.

guns and alcohol can mix - just not utilizing both at the same moment...;)
 
I forgot to add (and its on the sign) they also sold tobacco. That would make it handy for the BATF inspection wouldn't it ;)The store closed within the last year. It was there for years. I think the owner either retired or died. Sign is still there.
 
I forgot to add (and its on the sign) they also sold tobacco. That would make it handy for the BATF inspection wouldn't it The store closed within the last year. It was there for years. I think the owner either retired or died. Sign is still there.
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Now if they sold Explosives, it would be one stop shopping.:D
 
"Sadly, our wal-mart doesn't sell guns. They will regret it when the zombie apocalypse happens."

If they sell treadmills they're all set. Just set 'em up around the perimiter...
 
Hunting in Gibonsville, ID about 40 miles north of Salmon, ID, in the 70's, went to Salmon one day, Sportsman Bar, back bar was all gun racks with used firearms, shucks, no shake dancers though!!!
Bob
 
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I was thinking that exact same thing. As I recall, it was a Longs Drug on Highway 50. I recall my step father buying his shotgun reloading stuff from there. This was early late 70's, early 80's.

In a similar vain, I bought my 10/22 from a Target. A friend wanted to go shooting with his new rifle, and I said I'd go if I could get one too. And we basically stopped off at Target on the way to the range because I somehow knew they had the 10/22.

Mind this was back when you could actually walk in to someplace like a Target in California and walk out with a rifle.
 
Here in town, there is a gun store in the back of a hair salon/spa. It's kind of strange when you walk past all the "blue hairs" getting their hair done to look at the latest firearms. You can also get a back rub in there too.

At work we were talking about the liquor store in town that used to sell **** also, about how cool it would be if they sold guns too.
 
Stores who used to sell guns

In my area K-Mart, F.W. Woolworths, Sears, and Western Auto all used to handle firearms and they were at a good price. Remington and Winchester used to manufacture firearms for Sears and Western Auto but put the "store brand" name on the guns. Ahhhhhhhh for the good old days.
 
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