The Business of Guns

Walmart has been criticized for the sale of firearms.

for assault-style weapons. “It’s clear to us that the status quo is unacceptable,” Walmart CEO Doug McMillon said in a memo to employees after a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas. Walmart has been criticized for a laundry list of misdeeds, ranging from forcing employees to work unpaid overtime to driving smaller competitors out of business, and in recent years the sale of firearms in the stores has not escaped national attention. In 2015, Walmart announced that it would stop the sale of AR-15 rifles, would only sell handguns in the state of Alaska, and would not sell weapons to any person below the age of 21. A Walmart corporate statement said that the company had “taken an opportunity to review our policy on firearm sales . . . our heritage as a company has always been in serving sportsmen

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