The stocks are still sold, then it's over. After the recent massacres in the US, the retail giant Walmart wants to further restrict its weapons supply. The sale of ammunition for handguns and ammunition, which could be used for large-capacity assault rifle magazines, will be discontinued. Walmart boss Doug McMillon announced on Tuesday.
In addition, handguns will not be sold in Alaska in the future - the only US state, where Walmart so far still does.
Walmart has been criticized for selling weapons for a long time. About a month ago, a massacre at a branch in El Paso, Texas, killed 22 people.
A few days earlier, there had already been two deaths from gunfire at a Walmart in Southaven, Mississippi. McMillon described the incidents as "horrific events", after which the company could never be the same. "It is clear that the status quo is no longer acceptable". In future, the supply of weapons will be tailored even more to hunting and sport shooter needs, according to McMillon.
Since the nineties, the company has already successively limited the sale of arms. In 1993, Walmart pistols and revolvers from the range, since 2015, it sells no more semi-automatic weapons. After the school massacre of Parkland in February 2018, Walmart then raised the minimum age for the purchase of a weapon to 21 years.
The NRA is not thrilled - that should not surprise anyone
However, the world's largest retailer still refuses to stop selling weapons and ammunition in the US. Instead, Walmart now also announced that it wants to encourage its customers in the future to bring any weapons in the shops. This is allowed in many US states.
Unsurprisingly, US arms lobby NRA Walmart claimed to have yielded to the "pressure of anti-weapons elites" with its new restrictions. The queues at Walmart would soon be replaced by snakes in other stores, "which support the fundamental American freedoms more," claimed the NRA.
