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After a sob session with survivors of the Columbine massacre, K-Mart has announced that its stores will no longer sell handgun ammunition.<P>How many new K-Mart customers and how much new K-Mart shopping do you suppose this move will inspire? Do you feel inspired to take all your shopping to K-Mart? Ha!

I contacted K-Mart this morning at WWW. KMART.com and told them I am now a Wall-Mart shopper. It worked for S&W, it will work on K-Mart.

Ken,<P>Kmart is nothing more than a turd swirling in the toilet bowl, soon to be gone... And the guy who pulled the chain was named Sam Walton.<P> The Kmart store in my town has only recently begun trying to keep its customers with better selection and better customer service. The fact that a Walmart Super Store is under construction across town has everything to do with that.<P> I think the autistic character played by Dustin Hoffman in Rainman was quite prophetic. Not only could he tell you at a glance how many toothpicks were in a pile of over two hundred spilled on the floor, but he warned America way back then that "Kmart sucks." Turns out he was right.<P>Regards,<P>Wizard

Gunowners need to hit them hard on this one. Kmart needs to feel the economic impact of this decision. Tell everyone you know to contact Kmart and tell them they will not be shopping there anymore because of the decision. The sooner the better.

My e-mail will be waiting for whoever reads the mail this morning. Sent them my feeling about honest citizens being deprived for the sake of a very few. As of today I am no longer a K-Mart shopper. -- no

Good morning.If I may be of some service.Here<BR>are some address for Kmart.<P> Lori V.Gagnon<BR> Bluelight.com<BR> Senior Director of Customer Care<BR> P.O.Box 417<BR> Lewis Center,Oh.43035<BR> USA<P> Frank O.Jones<BR> Kmart Corporation<BR> DVP Consumer Insights<BR> P.O.Box 417<BR> Lewis Center,Oh.43035<BR> USA<P> Thank you for you time.<P> GOOD HUNTING<BR> GEORGE

i just e-mailed kmart and expressed my disappointment in their decision. i informed them that i would only support businesses that wholeheartedly supported shooting sports.

Kmart email:<P>kmartccnkmart.com

Please contact Kmart and tell them you will not be shopping at their stores because of their decision to end handgun ammunition sales.<BR> <BR>kmartccnkmart.com<BR> <BR>Kmart executives made the decision after they met with people from Columbine, Colorado, ultra-liberal film-maker Michael Moore and Handgun Control, Inc. <BR> <BR>Tell them it is bad business practice to base decisions on emotion rather that facts. The people they talked to are drastically overstating the risk posed by guns. Some statistics you could cite in your response.<BR> <BR>School shootings are very rare events. Children are far safer at school than they are at home or on their neighborhood streets, but are more likely to drown in a swimming pool, to be injured or killed in a car accident or hit by lightning than to be injured or killed by a gun.<BR>Only two-tenths of one percent of guns in private ownership are involved in crime.<BR>Statistically, doctors are thousands of times more dangerous than gunowners.<BR>Guns in private hands are three times more likely to stop a crime, including those that could result in injury or death, than to cause injury or death.<BR>The rate of injury and death involving a firearm has been steadily dropping, due in large part to the efforts of law-abiding gunowners in gun safety and training.<BR> <BR>Thanks,<BR> <BR>jackfish

Makes sense. This is the store pimped by Rosie O'Donnel.

you would think that they would have learned after the the roise o'fat broad boycott. tom<P>BTW here is my note to them<P>Dear sirs,<P>Since you will no longer stock handgun ammo due to caving in to the anti-gun people I will no longer be able to be a customer. I am sure Wal-mart will be sending you a thank you note for all the business you are throwing their way.

Who shops at K-Mart anyway? I haven't been in a K-Mart in months, if not years. The last time I was in there it was to buy some shotgun shells. The service was lousy (as usual). I had to run down the manager to get someone to open the cabinet so I could purchase the shells.<P> [img]images/icons/mad.gif" border="0[/img] <P>I think this was another dumb business decision by K-Mart.

Ken Howell:<P>I am naturally disappointed in K mart's decision to stop selling pistol ammunition, but I see it as more of a symbolic gesture and a small effort in their continued corporate repositioning, that is, trying to survive in the shadow of Walmart's.<P>For those who may not know, Kmart was technically bankrupt about 3 years ago, and there was serious consideration given to pulling the plug, but they got some slack from their suppliers and, since then, have made a decent start on a recovery and are re-thinking(from necessity) their corporate positioning. I am not sure it will work, but the new CEO who has been there a couple of years is doing a good job with what he has to work with.<P>At any rate, I see this, the stopping of handgun ammunition sales, as a crumb thrown to the antis, while still keeping their outdoor departments with the gun sales, etc. We as gun owners would have preferred that they did not throw this crumb, but, if you look at the public relations downside, it may have seemed necessary to them. What I am trying to say here is, they have not thrown out the baby with the bath water, and we should consider that who we pick as our enemies may still be our friends, or at least neutral.<P>I think a carefully worded email expressing our dismay at the decision but still supporting them for maintaining their gun departments would be appropriate. <P>Just my thoughts. CAT

e-mail is on the way. I hope each of you takes a minute or two and sends off a quick e-mail. Heck, the hard part is done for you since the e-mail addy has been posted. This type of action really does work, but it takes quite a number of respondents to make it happen.- Sheister

They don't wish to sell handgun ammo, cause they don't sell handguns? Last time I looked, Kmart wasn't selling cars, but they sure had a mess of batteries and auto doodads on the shelves.<BR>Already sent 'em a nice warm message, telling them how much I'll miss them. Bought one helluva mess of Win. Dynapoint 22 ammo there, over the years.

Ever since the blowup over the NRA I had maintained a perfect record of not spending one penny in a KMart until this week. I needed a couple boat batteries and rationalized that, since Rosie Olardo no longer represented them, it would be OK to buy from them.<P>Not being overly forgiving, I only bought one from KMart and got the second from WalMart. <P>Should have waited.

The following email is on the way:<P>Dear Kmart:<P>I have been a loyal customer of your stores for the last 15 years. There is a location very close to my home, and I usually go at least once every couple of weeks. That is no more.<P>In light of your decision to bend to will of gun control interests, I will no longer shop in any Kmart store. Ever.<P>From now on, I will drive the extra two miles and shop Walmart.<P>Repeat, goodbye Kmart, hello Walmart.<P>Maybe you should hire Sarah Brady as your spokesperson, now that Rosie O'Donnell is no longer in the fold.<P>Rick Bin

Oh yeah, this is a symbolic gesture by K-Mart, all right ..... namely, the symbolic middle finger at 2nd Amendment supporters, in the interest of the bottom line. "Rainman" was right. May they shrivel and rot. Thanks for the notice, Ken.

I sent them a nice letter, reminding them that there are a whole slew of gunowners out there. I also mentioned that every hunting/shooting website out there has a topic about this, and just how many people visit these websites. I politely informed them that they wouldn't be getting any of my hard earned money. That should be easy since our local K-mart closed down a couple of years ago (Shortly after a brand new WalMart went up across the street),,,BH

Well not that it will do any good, I sent K-Mart an e-mail also. I have several rifles that shoot handgun cartriges, .22 rimfire, .357 Mag, and .44 Mag. Will they not sell this "rifle" ammo? Thanks for places like Natchez's Shooters Supply. Buy ammo by the case. Bob