The Business of Guns

Retailers

One interesting statistic about our neighbor to the south, Mexico, is that the entire nation has just one single gun store. This store is located on a military base in Mexico City, guarded by a huge wall, requiring customers to pass six separate background checks before they can step through the door. While Mexico’s constitution also guarantees the right to bear arms, its government has strict laws on the sale of guns. The United States, by contrast, has some 65,000 gun sellers, meaning that there are five times more gun stores in the nation than McDonald’s restaurants.

Big-Box Stores: Big on Guns, but Scaling Back

By many different metrics, no company in the world today can match Walmart’s size. The retailer has over 10,000 worldwide stores and half a trillion dollars in revenue. It was also one of the world’s most prolific gun sellers until September 2019 when the company announced that it would stop selling ammunition for handguns and short-barrel rifles, which can also be used

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