no more walmart guns
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Michigan
Posts: 3,329
RE: no more walmart guns
Hey guys,
I actually think this is a great thing. Wal-Mart or Wal-Mart like stores will eventually mean the end to affordable higher end goods. As they drive more lower cost business away from the mom and pops, the mom and pops have to charge more for higher end goods that Wal-Mart doesn't carry. Also once Wal-Mart drives competators out of business they always raise their prices. I know because I design models for them that do that kind of stuff.
Also look at the recent bs about the morning after pill. You may not agree with the morning after pill but maybe one day Wal-Mart decides that the most powerful gun that should be in the woods is a .30-06. However they successfully ran all the gun shops in your area out of business.
After I read the article on the morning after pill I decided that I wouldn't step foot in another Wal-Mart. I also recently resigned from my job. It wasn't completely the reason why I did it but it was a factor in my decision. I can't support a company that is going to make us all the same, put small business owners out of business, create a ton of low paying jobs and smile about it all the way to the bank.
Tom
I actually think this is a great thing. Wal-Mart or Wal-Mart like stores will eventually mean the end to affordable higher end goods. As they drive more lower cost business away from the mom and pops, the mom and pops have to charge more for higher end goods that Wal-Mart doesn't carry. Also once Wal-Mart drives competators out of business they always raise their prices. I know because I design models for them that do that kind of stuff.
Also look at the recent bs about the morning after pill. You may not agree with the morning after pill but maybe one day Wal-Mart decides that the most powerful gun that should be in the woods is a .30-06. However they successfully ran all the gun shops in your area out of business.
After I read the article on the morning after pill I decided that I wouldn't step foot in another Wal-Mart. I also recently resigned from my job. It wasn't completely the reason why I did it but it was a factor in my decision. I can't support a company that is going to make us all the same, put small business owners out of business, create a ton of low paying jobs and smile about it all the way to the bank.
Tom
#12
RE: no more walmart guns
Picked up a 20 for one of my boys last month at Wally World. I thought I got a very good price.
However, I went to pick it up and had to "schedule a pick up date/time" for a few days later. The only person working there with a gun card was a young manager and he's the only one who can transfer possesion of a firearm from them to their customer.
I was told that they sell 2 or 3 guns a day at that particular store. So when I went to pick it up there were 6 or 7 other guys there to pick their guns up. Good thing I was early because it was time consuming. After doing all the transfer paperwork, the gun has to be all packaged up in the box and sealed with tape. Then the manager has to walk the gun out of the front door where he hands it to you. Fun. I asked him why do they have to walk it out the door and he said store policy to transfer possesion outside their property. I asked isn't the parking lot your property too?
But I came thru the experience unscathed. My boys eyes were a great reward even if I had to wait hours.
His smile, although quite toothless at this time..............priceless.
However, I went to pick it up and had to "schedule a pick up date/time" for a few days later. The only person working there with a gun card was a young manager and he's the only one who can transfer possesion of a firearm from them to their customer.
I was told that they sell 2 or 3 guns a day at that particular store. So when I went to pick it up there were 6 or 7 other guys there to pick their guns up. Good thing I was early because it was time consuming. After doing all the transfer paperwork, the gun has to be all packaged up in the box and sealed with tape. Then the manager has to walk the gun out of the front door where he hands it to you. Fun. I asked him why do they have to walk it out the door and he said store policy to transfer possesion outside their property. I asked isn't the parking lot your property too?
But I came thru the experience unscathed. My boys eyes were a great reward even if I had to wait hours.
His smile, although quite toothless at this time..............priceless.
#13
RE: no more walmart guns
I've still got8 gun stores locally + Academy + Gander Mountain coming soon (or at least rumor has it) if Wal-Mart dries up. In fact, I've never bought a gun at the same store twice..........yet.
#14
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location:
Posts: 1,785
RE: no more walmart guns
I would like to say that I am shocked by this news about WalMart, but I have had a feeling for a while that this might happen. I have never bought a gun from WalMart anyway, so this has absolutely no effect on me. If they quit selling ammo though, now that is a horse of a different color. I spend several hundred dollars a year on ammo at WalMart alone. I do mail order most of my ammo, but when I get in a pinch, WalMart sure is handy. I am sure this news is probably correct, but I will believe it when I see it at my local store.
#16
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location:
Posts: 546
RE: no more walmart guns
First they stopped selling handguns. Now no more rifles. It's all politics. Plus I talked to a pwn shop who was pahing out guns. He said that insurance companies cahrge too much to underwrite insurance for a gun shop.
Anyway, I have never boought a gun from Wal MArt. I probaly never will. Thier ammo is too expensive too and they never seem to have a good selection.
Actually, I rarely ever go into Wally world. Maybe 2 times a year. I just choose to patronize local stores. And I don't like the fact that almost all of thier stock is made in china.
okcmco
Anyway, I have never boought a gun from Wal MArt. I probaly never will. Thier ammo is too expensive too and they never seem to have a good selection.
Actually, I rarely ever go into Wally world. Maybe 2 times a year. I just choose to patronize local stores. And I don't like the fact that almost all of thier stock is made in china.
okcmco
#17
RE: no more walmart guns
ORIGINAL: llbts1
Hey NT, where is Gander Mtn going in at? I haven't heard. Thanks Larry
Hey NT, where is Gander Mtn going in at? I haven't heard. Thanks Larry
#18
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 493
RE: no more walmart guns
I dont buy guns from them anyway, if they consider those people behind the counter as trained,they dropped the ball! At my local walmart the associates in sporting goods are lost as a whore in church, can't tell you nothing about nothing. Iguess they are getting ready for our politicly correct Democrates to go back in the white house and take away our guns and rights. Can't wait to have Hillary, Kennedy and Finestine, trying to casterate the constitution again!
#19
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 99
RE: no more walmart guns
I know in Canada if you have a gun shop Or sporting shop you have to buy your guns from a distributor, not direct from Remington or Winchester Browning.savage etc. I am sure walmart never went through the distributors they have huge buying power,they would have bought direct,thus the smaller shops must pay higher prices, from jobbers & distributors. and markups are passed to us.
Walmart probably makes 20% profit on guns and 140% profit on all stuff from China
Walmart probably makes 20% profit on guns and 140% profit on all stuff from China
#20
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: A flat lander lost in the mountains of Northern,AZ
Posts: 3,171
RE: no more walmart guns
ORIGINAL: bowmtn
Spoke to a mananger at the walmart in virginia and he said that walmart will be phasing out gun sales over the next year, and some stores will stop selling them in the next month. I ask him why and he said that the main office deceided that they were not turning a proffit due to lawsuits and the hassel of training people to do gun sales. This will be a boost for your locale gundealer,as long as they don't turn it into a rape.
Spoke to a mananger at the walmart in virginia and he said that walmart will be phasing out gun sales over the next year, and some stores will stop selling them in the next month. I ask him why and he said that the main office deceided that they were not turning a proffit due to lawsuits and the hassel of training people to do gun sales. This will be a boost for your locale gundealer,as long as they don't turn it into a rape.