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Right now the AR-15 market is just dead. I always liked the 30'06 1903 Springfield Armory bolt action. A gun that would give a nice bruise in your chest. But now, after the panic buying was over and all the factories kept producing, prices dropped like yesterdays 1k drop in the stock market. I saw a AR-15 which would have cost $2000 for $459! Thats wife will approve this for my birthday money. Now I have joined the club, and really enjoy the rifle.
Glad Walmart is out of the market. I hope the gun show folks will find great benefit from having a monster move out of the market. Also I shop at Costco they treat their employee's with respect, and give them health insurance, also a living wage. Walmart just uses welfare to make up the money they don't pay their people. This is fact checked by a friend who processes new cases at welfare/food stamp, place.
Fuck walmart. I will be buying all of my ammo in bulk online and never purchase another thing from their sporting goods area. I will get my deer blocks from the farm supply and everything else online.
I am sure your boycott of their entire "sporting goods section" will greatly reduce their stock value. Do you protest foreign oil by not using it in your weedeater?
LOL, talk about a half-ass statement.
OK, I don't get it. Really? If you count on WallyWorld for your AR shit, you are somewhere between a poser, and a hoser. Back to the basement and your video games for you! Can we block WW from this site now?
My local stores around my area never sold AR's .only mini14's . plus they stopped selling 7.62*39 few months ago . same with 9mm perfecta ammo
Where are those few guys who swore off the "anti-gun" Dicks because they made the same decision years ago? Probably at Walmart in their little electronic cart waiting for the 22lr to be replenished ;)
Haven't shopped at Wal Mart in years. Just one more reason not to ever go back
Walmart prices have never been competitive when it comes to the AR15's they offered.
pbsoko,
Not sure if I agree with your assessment, pre- 2012, their prices for the AR's were hard to beat on most of them, in fact most brick and mortar stores and most brick and mortar gun shops couldn't compete.
Now with ammo and accessories, I fully agree, their pricing was on the high side, plus tax always hurt as well.
As far as Walmarts explanation of them not being popular, that's just a load of BS, up down and sideways. The reason I say that is that the AR caliber munitions were empty shelf after empty shelf, pretty much from 2012 up until last year. And it was no industry secret that AR munitions were generating boatloads of revenue from all stores that sold them, when they could find it.
During 2012 to 2014, there was PLENTY of hunting calibers readily available on Wal Mart shelves. Walmarts position is anything but honest. Political correctness at it's best
So you are basing their movement of AR rifles vs their movement of AR compatible ammo? Which do you think Walmart sells more of; toilets or toilet paper? Not trying to be a smart ass (comes natural!) but I have never been tempted to buy a toilet or an AR at Walmart (both were always covered in dust BTW) but frequently purchased both TP and ammo there. Want an AR? Buy online or at a real gun store. Want a toilet? Home Depot or Lowes are your ticket. Want a basic .308 or a 30.06? Walmart might just have you covered. I think Walmart has finally realized only the guys who cannot see their penises buy AR’s at Wally World.
I worked at a Wal-Mart in the mid 90's. In sporting goods. I was a Dept. manager (yippie). I could special order pistols at that time, special order anything, from Lipsey's or Sports South mainly. But,
no M1A rifles or AR-15s. I mean hell, at that time ARs were Colt and Olympic. I was told that M1A rifles were military rifles, so they couldn't be ordered. Yet we carried Mini-14s, a military rifle in some countries, and a smaller version of the M1A. I guess what I am getting at is, times change. I was VERY surprised when they started carrying all of the "tactical" stuff that was once considered "taboo". I really think it all boils down to, wait for it, MONEY! The AR and defensive shotgun markets are FLOODED, to say the least. Wal-Mart didn't get to be a Megalo-maniac type operation by doing stupid shit. Yeah, I know, all of their guns are second's also. But yeah WooHoo2you. Ammo? Some good deals when they're in stock. AR style rifles? $800 to $1000 dollars? They were late to the party!
I think Walmart moved towards “tactical” stuff after hating the government and / or anyone with an opinion slightly different than yours become ‘cool’ and somehow patriotic (its not BTW)…now the fad has worn off or consumed as many mean looking guns as the market allowed. Like you said, Walmart was late to the game.
This is a business decision not some anti-gun conspiracy.
If it was pure politics they would have done this a long time ago. I know the sporting goods dept manager of a wal-mart and he said they dont sell for crap. Now IF they stopped selling 223 or all handgun ammo that would be obvious. Wait...........do they carry 223 at all?
Maybe they realize what the outcry would be like if this were publicized as a political capitulation to the likes of "Everytown (for incremental disarmament)?" Maybe Bloomberg and his anti-2A ilk and front groups are taking a quiet victory lap, and heading over to Cabelas with a "look see, it doesn't have to be a public spectacle with a negative backlash" motive seeking another to capitulate message to the execs. If I were a gun grabber that's how I'd approach these kinds of businesses.
With margins on them dwindling I can see it as an easy choice for the gutless Walton suits.
I bet Walmart's AR sales are a drop in the bucket vs the rest of the market. Those mean anti-gunners must be the playing the very LONG, SLOW game of preventing 1 out of every 500 AR's sold due to impulse purchases by somehow forcing the world’s largest retailer to remove like 3 SKU’s from their inventory that only (per Walmart’s statement) 1/3 of their stores that even sold guns carried. Please say “slippery slope.”
Dayum! Where am I gonna gets my Blackhawk accessories now?! I's just 'bout to head to my local Wally Mart to snatch me up a DPMS (the BEST AR ever made, by the way), and I's gonna' slap me on some SWEET Blachawk furniture, a Chinese quad rail, and a Sightmark laser.
Now I gots to git me a crappy AR, like a Colt or a Knights Armament, and some shitty Daniel Defense sights. Booo hoo!
I'm madder than a dickless bull in a breedin' stall. I'm gonna' have to go kick my wife in the cooter, cuz I cain't buy my tacticools and my Preparation H at the same place no more!
---Good riddence. WalMart is a shithole, anyway.