Why is Walmart Considered the Concealed Carry Rite of Passage?

Well, I saw a guy in WHOLE FOODS reach for his wallet and expose his gun.

How about that!

Stop for veggie pot stickers, buffalo milk blue cheese and organic toothpaste.

Whole Foods used to have no guns signs till the 30.06 sign change made the ghost buster gun signs worthless.

I suggest a Whole Foods walk for the more sophisticated.

I like that blue cheese - YUM!
 
I suggest a Whole Foods walk for the more sophisticated.
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Well, look who's all "I eat like fancy city folk." :p

I honestly don't remember where I carried the first time. I once stopped at WalMart on my way home from an IDPA match, and I had the vest on. I stopped to look through the $5.00 DVD pile, and some doofus said, "I don't see a camera, so you must be packin' heat!"

Gee, thanks Cleetus. My main fear at WalMart is getting my feet run over by one of those obesity scooters that trundle up and down the aisles.
 
My first CCW trip was actually Wally World. It seems that is the case for a lot of people because Walmart has a lot of stores and you can always find something you need there and everyone can relate to Walmart.
 
So am I a sinner of highest regsrd if I do my first "carry walk" while clocked in at the walmart I am employed by?

Like I tell 'em already... "wouldn't you just love to know..." as I shine them on... They already know i do not do involuntary fondling of my person unless I am pinned down by a single gal and the search ain't for weapons...:D

Man this joint wasn't ready for the likes of me when I strode in there...

They shoulda known when I made the comment "Ya'll sure do make it hard on a feller to get fired 'round here" following description of discipline procedures... Or when I snickered when asked if us "new hire associates" understood the corporate:D lawyer proofed self defense policy regarding on the clock employees...

I straight up stated that I do not go to bended knee out of duress...

Rolled eyes were the norm...

I was quick to state I would never defend their cash but that they had no policy explicitly stating my life was worthless and could not be defended by my self... So their policy is without tooth so long as my actions are not about protecting their "Assets"... My civil right to Life Liberty and pursuit of happiness... Well thst'n shall not be infringed...
Brent
 
Actually, my first walk was in Oregon at Clackamas Town Center (a mall). Wore a fanny pack and decided it was ridiculous. It has now been in the box of useless gun junk for all these years.

Bought ammo at Wally's the other day. Glock and gear under a floppy old shirt.
 
Fanny Pack

Fanny packs don't work for everybody. Not for me anyway. Thought about a laptop bag, but nahh. Do have a side pack that I carry sometimes, but usually just carry the J-frame or LCP.
 
I think when I did mine, . . . it was just where I was at the time, . . . didn't really give it any thought.

But Wally World was the first place, . . . thats an el facto.

A couple of days later in an auto parts store in Morehead, Ky, . . . I knew without a doubt that every eye in the place could see my full size 1911 hanging on my side, . . . but if they did, . . . no one said anything :D

May God bless,
Dwight
 
I've done the Wally Walk many times, carrying openly. Very few even notice I'm armed. Tom Servo is right! Those fat-wagons are deadly!
 
Years ago before it was easy to get a carry permit I accidentally walked into a doughnut shop with a handgun strapped on. It was snowing hard and I had been out checking traps all morning and simply forgot I had it strapped on. Nobody said a word. I did not realize it until I went to take my coat of later. Maybe if it was just stuck in my belt instead of a holster it would have looked more menacing, I don't know.
 
In the boonies of TX, we were eating a local dive. One friend took out his concealed gun for some reason and put it on the table. No one said a word. He flinched and put it away as we pointed this out to him.

I wouldn't do that eating a poached salmon and grilled Italian vegetables at a table in Whole Foods.
 
I suggest a Whole Foods walk for the more sophisticated.
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I actually would suggest a Target instead :D . That is where more of the preppy crowd go, at least in my area.

With that said, I didn't do the Wally Walk but went to Target instead when I first started carrying a few years back.
 
I think people were doing Wally walks long before the phrase was coined. At some point every one realized that everyone did it.

Walmart is e every where and probably familiar to most people. I don't think many people would try it out in a business they have never been. Hate Walmart or not, it is the corner stone of many towns now and going to Walmart is necessity now. Odds are very high that the first place needed to go in public is Walmart.

Besides some gun owners, on a fluke, were given a sense of humor and it's funny.
 
Well, I was concealed carrying before there was a Wal Mart (Yeah, I am that old), so I missed out on that one (although I've done it pretty regularly since they showed up).

I'm curious to know; has Wal Mart ever commented (officially or unofficially) on the idea that they are part of a gun-owner's rite of passage?

I did an interweb search, but came up empty.

Anybody out there know?



Will
 
I'm curious to know; has Wal Mart ever commented (officially or unofficially) on the idea that they are part of a gun-owner's rite of passage?

I did an interweb search, but came up empty.
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I've never seen/heard the "Wally Walk" referenced outside of gun-specific web forums. Unless it goes more "mainstream", I wouldn't expect WM to say anything about it. And unless the Wally Walk shows up in a movie or TV show, or someone is either killed or saved by someone doing a WW, I don't think the story will spread much.
 
Here is an "official" map of he walk,,,

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I have three friends who recently obtained their CWL,,,
The Wal Mart Walk was a required ritual,,,
I went along to take pictures.

Aarond

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I just submitted, for approval, a thread on the walmart "private" forums asking if any others are aware of this phenomenon...:D

Brent
 
Oh, this should be good, hogdogs!

aarondhgraham, you made my day with that map - I'd seen it before but couldn't remember the details. :D
 
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