Wal-Mart to start selling handguns in 2012

You can start with transfers anda small inventory of accessories that will sell in your area. Then you take in guns folks want to sell on consignment so you get a % of the price it sells for without spending your money to bring it into inventory. You help move the guns by selling on gunbroker. This can all be done part time, BTW......;)
 
Why should I pay my LGS $16 for a box of 9mm ammo that Walmart sells (the same brand) for $10.99? Oh yeah, I forgot, the kid selling you the ammo never shot a gun and doesn't know .357 Magnum from .357Sig. My bad. That makes paying $5 a box more easier to swallow.
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Not always, even at Wal-Mart. Last time I bought ammo from them, a nice looking lady maybe near my age (55) rung me up. I remarked how lucky I was to find some there as it was 9mm on one of their super-sales, and it's usually gone by the time I hear about it. She said there was another whole pallet of it in storage and then started talking about various calibers and, with a wink, what just may be on sale next week. No mistakes on nomenclature, very knowledgable and quite fetching to boot. I had to hi-tail it out of there as I thought I very well may fall in love.:D
 
I personally don't care if Walmart starts selling handguns. The usual questions will crop up about quality... are they THE same guns as the local gunshop? I say why bother, but we have an abundance of gunshops in TN.

I like Walmart. I don't like to see small mom & pop hardware stores go out of business because of Walmart, but truly Lowes and Home Depot are the cause of that. Walmart will put a Kmart out of business in a flash if they can. Target holds it's own. The small country grocery stores could never compete with the big grocery store chains. They probably buy their inventory from Sams and Walmart in many cases and mark it up.

I tend to buy a higher quality product than usually offered by Walmart other than Wrangler jeans, groceries, selected ammunition, and household stuff. Never bought a gun at Walmart although I have been tempted.
 
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Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

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(edited for brevity)Also, I rather not be escorted out to the front of the store and then handed my firearm like I'm a criminal just because I bought a gun from them.
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I bought a couple 250 round boxes of 45 ACP (just ammunition, mind you) and they had to escort me to the door before I could take possession.

I was happy to have someone to do the carrying for me.:D (I did not intend to buy ammo when I went in, so did not have a cart).

I usually load my own, but the sale price was less than what I could have bought powder, primers and bullets, not even counting the brass.

Lost Sheep
 
Was that because you carried a 45ACP pistol? :D

Never had that experience with ammunition. They always do that with firearms as does Dicks, Sportsman Warehouse, and Academy Sports.
 
out the door

I remember reading somewhere previously in this post about being escorted to the door with a firearm after the sale! That seems kind of childish to react to that! IMO. I bought a shotgun from Cabela's for my son years ago and we were escorted to the door after the sale, my twelve year old was proud that everyone in the store, saw us walk out with his firearm. Perception !! It's just a company policy, no big deal. I still shop at Cabelas and always will !!
 
The escort to the door business is in part so you don't drop a round in the gun and shoot yourself in the store, IIRC.

Given the rash of suicides at the range - there may be some validity to that - at least in the corporate mind.

I wish someone would walk my ammo to my car. Thought I was going to visit Grandma when I was toting a 500 round box out of the gun show.
 
Not Funny, Glenn

That exact thing happened a few months ago at a gun store in central Texas. A guy walked in asked to see a gun and before he could be stopped he shot himself in the head. Don't know if he died or not.
 
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Thanks PT92. Read the link and it does look like something that could easily lead to abuse of power as did RICO. BTW, BB has been watching for decades. All those satellites aren't for your tv.
 
KMAX, no doubt about it--while we all want 'security,' there is such a fine line that must first be defined (undoudedly by the spooks) and then followed accordingly (who knows what that entails...?). I'm not sure they will ever be able to placate both the left and the right given the nature of both the technological and dangerously chaotic world in which we live--hence the incredible scrutiny surrounding SOPA.

I have veered off topic...

-Cheers
 
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PT-92, You're scarin' me. As to WM selling handguns, in some respects it might be good, in some respects bad. I fear it might hurt local gun shops, if they could beat the LGS price. I have not seen that to be the case with long guns though.
 
It's interesting. I was in the city of ST. Louis' Walmart and I was looking for a few gun brushes and all I could see were a very few basic Winchester gun cleaning kits, one for 12g the other for .22lr. I asked the counter person in the sporting goods dept. and she told me to try a "suburban" store outside the city limits where they sell guns. I did not have the time to travel a 50 mile round trip today so I passed and will just order what I need online (most likely Cabelas as I have come Cabelas CC points available--it also is quite a ways outside ST. Louis). Point is though that she was essentially saying that "City" located Walmart stores have very little in the way of gun related accessories and absolutely ZERO actual guns (not even a display case with a .22 or single-shot SG). If, however, you are looking to fish, the city Walmarts have got you more than covered so I guess the liberals don't mind if you 'kill' fish...:eek: or perhaps they advocate a 'catch and release' philosophy? I do need to try and see if I can locate a local gun-shop that is reasonable.

Still, I respect and am indeed thankful that we have definitely made significant strides with regards to gun rights (CCW etc.) over the past ten years or so, but in many respects that ever present liberal-mentality still seems to have a stranglehold on the cities of this great nation.

-Cheers
 
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My walmarts, inside the city limits, sell logins, reloading stuff including powder, and all sorts of good stuff. , I buy20 boxes of shotgun shells and take them to the front registers with my produce,, hardware and dog food.....no big deal
 
The WalMart in Marysville is going to have a Cabela's open right next to it in the spring. I expect either WalMart will eliminate long guns and ammo entirely or undercut the competition even more, they can still make money on that, but it's going to be a fight. If they started selling handguns, even if just the one store, it would do well, drawing a lot of customers from Seattle and Everett.
 
Our local WalMart is very well stocked with ammo and long guns here in suburban MD. However, I will never buy a gun from them. Read the book the WalMart Effect and you'll understand how the largest corporation in world has helped systematically lower the middle class standard of living and our perception and availability of quality of goods. American corporations subject to strong environmental regulations and fair labor practices can't even begin to compete with near slave labor conditions in rural China and the environmental nightmare that accompanies manufacturing over there.

Wally World is a demand side monopoly that has been a strong driving force in moving our middle class away from manufacturing jobs that actually create something the rest of the world wants, to local service oriented jobs that do nothing more than support their distribution model.
 
I'm a bit leery of Wally World selling guns after my experiences with the employees they hire. I do buy ammo from them-it's $8-$10 dollars a box cheaper if you don't mind having to deal with the people they hire.

Some months back, I went in to get a box of 45 acp ammo. The guy behind the counter gave me a blank stare and after what seemed forever, handed me a box of 30-06. Again, I told him 45 acp and pointed right at the box. He handed me 40 S&W. He got the right box on the 3rd try, but tried to ring up all three boxes.
Don't get me started on the clerk who rang up my groceries, deleted everything, then had to re-scan everything.....:mad:
 
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