Wally World To Stop Selling Guns

Stweedie brings up a great point! The quality of guns at Walmart are just not the same, I've been telling my friends this for years. Take the 11-87 for example; buy one at Walmart and buy one from say, L.L. Beans. The wood from the Walmart guns are so soft that if you just tap it against something you'll have a dent. I made the mistake of buying one gun from Walmart and I'll never do it again. It was a Ruger 10-22 which usually is a great gun. What a piece of crap it turned out to be. The gun fires about 3 out of 5 times when you pull the trigger and the wood looks like someone used it as a carving tool. I bought the same gun from L.L. Beans and have used it much more and it still looks like it did they day I brought it home... not to mention deadly accurate unlike the Walmart one. Almost done with my rampage here... one more thing.. Pay a little extra and buy your guns from quality places!!

Lil John said:

I once bought a BB gun at Wal Mart. After paying for the gun and filling out the proper paper work, the clerk told me she would have to carry the gun out for me. :shock:
I asked why and she told me it was store policy, I couldn't believe it.
So me being a law abiding man asked her if she had an FID or license to carry, (Massachusetts law) she informed me that she did not. I then told her I could not allow her to carry my gun, because she would be in illegal posesion of a firearm and I could be punished by the law for allowing it.
The clerk was so confused she called a superviser, who I posed the same questions to, He could not produce a license iether. :?
So I picked up my gun and left the store. 8)

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BB Guns and even blackpowder rifles do not have to be carried out of the store. Only shotguns and high power rifles if they sell them. When I worked there I couldn't believe the people who didn't know the difference. I remember I had carried a blackpowder rifle to the front once when I didn't have to because the store manager even believed it was a high powered rifle and told me I had to. I told her that I didn't have to because it was a blackpowder and she laughed at me and said I ought to anyway as if she was unsure. When I carried it out by the front door several shoppers looked at me like I was some mad man carrying a weapon. Mothers would grab their children and hold them close, people would change direction right in the store to avoid me, and such.

It was really a very weird experience.

This IS a retail thing here folks! Walmart thought there would be a market for guns so they went to Winchester, Remington, Savage and Mossberg and TOLD THEM WHAT THEY WOULD PAY for their guns. Sooooo, the company's took al their cull wood and steel and made some guns for Walmart.

These gun manufacturers made their point! YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!!!

Now, Walmart won't do anything small and needs to have a certain population base to build a store so you don't see WM in rural America. Only in and around the big city. Big city folk don't sport-shoot or hunt so the guns just sit there.

Retail Code:

"shelf rent is high so an item must turn over six times per month to make it worth stocking."

(your stock, ***2 boxes or 12 boxes whatever is on the shelf*** must be restocked six times every month it is in season!)

That is how a store makes money.

Guns sales are not a profitable in the city unless there is no paperwork attached to it. Walmart should have done this long ago but the tax write-off was too great!

Steve, your story about carrying a gun through a WM store makes me laugh! You should have ran through the store, screaming & hollering. Then give the customer his gun and jump in your car and take off nice and easy. The 911 operators would have a nightmare from all the cell phone calls!!!

Then when you got home, call the store and tell them you quit because some mad-man chased you out with a gun. LOL

one day i went there to buy a rifle with dad. technically, it was gonna be dads gun with me financing and being the primary user of the rifle. i was looking over a Savage with the accutrigger with my father being no more than a foot away. i asked if he could remove the lock so i could check out the trigger, the dotard behind the counter snatched the gun away and said "legally, minors cant touch guns!" then i said "[foul] this place!" and we stormed out. earlier this year we went there to get our hunting licenses because we were gonna try some predator hunting the next morning and Willey's was closed. when the clerk was filling out the paper work for my brother's and my license, i specifically told her to be sure they were junior licenses. 15 minutes later, when she finally finished the transaction the price was double what it should have been. i check the licenses and sure enough they were all adults. 45 minutes after entering, we finally leave with our licenses, thoroughly pissed off

All I can say is WOW! If you only knew Earl... Lets say for example Earl that you make ice fishing traps. Labor and parts cost you $5 and you sell the product for $10 to your retailers. Lets say Mega Lo Mart aproaches you and says we want to buy all the ice fishing traps you can make from January-March but we're only going to pay $6 per trap. Now are you going to spend three months making $1 per trap or are you going to find cheaper parts, maybe cut the quality back a bit, and not check the quality so intently in an attempt to make a little more profit? Because this is how it works. Ever notice that if you buy a John Deere Tractor at a dealership the exterior is metal, but at Lowes or Home Depot they're plastic and much cheaper? All I ask is try to make a quality argument or back up a statement with some facts.