Walmart is raising purchase age for firearms/ammunition to 21 and removing items from their website

[MelissaB]

Now @Walmart says it is raising purchase age for firearms/ammunition to 21 and removing items from their website resembling assault-style rifles, *including toys*:

Link to tweet

In light of recent events, we’ve taken an opportunity to review our policy on firearm sales. Going forward, we are raising the age restriction for purchase of firearms and ammunition to 21 years of age. We will update our processes as quickly as possible to implement this change.

In 2015, Walmart ended sales of modern sporting rifles, including the AR-15. We also do not sell handguns, except in Alaska where we feel we should continue to offer them to our customers. Additionally, we do not sell bump stocks, high-capacity magazines and similar accessories. We have a process to monitor our eCommerce marketplace and ensure our policies are applied.

We take seriously our obligation to be a responsible seller of firearms and go beyond Federal law by requiring customers to pass a background check before purchasing any firearm. The law would allow the sale of a firearm if no response to a background check request has been received within three business days, but our policy prohibits the sale until an approval is given.

We are also removing items from our website resembling assault-style rifles, including nonlethal airsoft guns and toys. Our heritage as a company has always been in serving sportsmen and hunters, and we will continue to do so in a responsible way.
https://news.walmart.com/2018/02/28/walmart-statement-on-firearms-policy

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

1. AR-15 equals "...modern sporting rifles..." They have to be kidding.

Glad the Waltons are at least doing something, but spinning weapons of war as "modern sporting rifles" is absolutely astounding and totally sick.

[Virtual Burlesque]

3. Upon what did the mighty hunter with an AR-15 feed his family?

Forty-seven pounds of enfiladed deer.

The rest was little globals of flesh sticking to the trees and bushes.

[LiberalArkie]

4. That is what they are called.. Walmart stopped carrying them after Sandy Hook

[spanone]

2. Fantastic...congress should be ashamed of its self...these kids have done what they can't

the nra doesn't own one of those young adults